Smart Grading, Handling and Packaging Solutions for Soft and Deformable Products in Agile and Reconfigurable Lines

Project Information

AGILEHAND

Grant agreement ID: 101092043

DOI

10.3030/101092043

Project closed

EC signature date 18 November 2022

Start date 1 January 2023

End date 31 December 2025

Funded under

• Digital, Industry and Space

Total cost

€ 5 986 187,50

EU contribution

€ 5 986 186,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITA POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE
Italy

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (2)

AGILEHAND Reference Architecture
Usage, Functional & Technical Specifications

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Dissemination, Communication and Community Building & Standardisation v1

Other (1)

AGILEHAND Smart Sensing SUITE v1

Publications

Conference proceedings (16)

Orange Quality Grading with Deep Learning

Author(s): Mohamed Lamine Mekhalfi , Paul Chippendale, Francisco Fraile, Marcos Rico
Published in: 2025
Publisher: arXiv preprint arXiv
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2503.21250

A preliminary implementation of a retrofitted AI demand forecasting system for Digital Twin-based production scheduling in the food sector

Author(s): Laura Lucanyoni, Stefano Croci, Giovanni Mazzuto, Severino Perenzoni, Filippo Emanuele Ciarapica, Maurizio Bevilacqua
Published in: 2025 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Computer, Data Sciences and Applications (ACDSA), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ACDSA65407.2025.11166056

Enhancing Manufacturing Agility: The Role of Digital Twins and AI in Reconfigurable Production Systems

Author(s): Matteo Iacovanelli, Giovanni Mazzuto, Marco Ortenzi, Filippo Emanuele Ciarapica, Maurizio Bevilacqua, Bjorn Vanderwal
Published in: 2025 IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology, and Innovation (ICE/ITMC), 2025, ISSN 2693-8855
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICE/ITMC65658.2025.11106603

Digital Twin Framework for Improved Handling of Soft and Deformable Products in Food Manufacturing

Author(s): Matteo Iacovanelli, Giovanni Mazzuto, Marco Ortenzi, Filippo Emanuele Ciarapica, Maurizio Bevilacqua, Marco Rossi
Published in: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology, and Innovation (ICE/ITMC), 2024, ISSN 2693-8855
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICE/ITMC61926.2024.10794319

Optimizing Production Lines for Soft and Deformable Products with Agile and Flexible Reconfigurable System

Author(s): Giovanni Mazzuto, Filippo Emanuele Ciarapica, Jan Hendrik Hellmich, Laura MoyaRuiz, Francisco Fraile Gil
Published in: 2023
Publisher: CEUR Workshop Proceedings
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.13385324

Analysis of workers’ risks associated with AI and robotic systems: the AGILEHAND project solutions’ developers point of view

Author(s): Filippo E. Ciarapica, Giulio Marcucci, Laura Lucantoni, Lodovico Basilici Menini
Published in: 2026, ISSN 1613-0073
Publisher: CEUR

Machine Learning Based Product Quantity and Quality Prediction in Food Production

Author(s): Jan Hendrik Hellmich, Maximilian Brochhaus, Samuele Bonecher, Robert H. Schmitt
Published in: 2025 IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology, and Innovation (ICE/ITMC), 2025, ISSN 2693-8855
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICE/ITMC65658.2025.11106579

Citrus Sorting Dynamic Control Using Multispectral Computer Vision

Author(s): Javier Mateos Luengo, Joan Lario Femenia, Marcos Terol, Francisco Fraile
Published in: 2025 IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology, and Innovation (ICE/ITMC), 2025, ISSN 2693-8855
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICE/ITMC65658.2025.11106566

The RaspGrade Dataset: Towards Automatic Raspberry Ripeness Grading with Deep Learning

Author(s): Mohamed Lamine Mekhalfi, Paul Chippendale, Fabio Poiesi, Samuele Bonecher, Gilberto Osler, Nicola Zancanella
Published in: 2025 IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology, and Innovation (ICE/ITMC), 2025, ISSN 2693-8855
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICE/ITMC65658.2025.11106558

Strategies for workers’ skills development and engagement: the AGILEHAND project solutions’ developers point of view

Author(s): Filippo E. Ciarapica, Giulio Marcucci, Laura Lucantoni ,Lodovico Basilici Menini
Published in: 2026, ISSN 1613-0073
Publisher: CEUR

A Digital Twin Framework for Optimized Production Configuration and Simulation for Order Deadline Fulfilment: A Case Study in an Italian Food Company

Author(s): Stefano Croci, Giovanni Mazzuto, Filippo Emanuele Ciarapica, Maurizio Bevilacqua, Marco Ortenzi, Gilberto Osler
Published in: 2025 IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology, and Innovation (ICE/ITMC), 2025, ISSN 2693-8855
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICE/ITMC65658.2025.11106618

Artificial Neural Networks approach for Digital Twin modelling of an ejector

Author(s): Pientrangeli, Ilaria; Mazzuto, Giovanni; Ciarapica, Filippo Emanuele; Bevilacqua, Maurizio
Published in: Proceedings of 35th European Modeling & Simulation Symposium (EMSS) , Athens, Greece, 18-20 September 2023, 2023, ISSN 2305-2023
Publisher: Cal-Tek srl
DOI: 10.46354/I3M.2023.EMSS.007

The Standardization Framework of Product Traceability and Process Performance Monitoring in Interoperable Agroindustry Systems

Author(s): Giuseppe Aiello, Jan Hendrik Hellmich, Robert Schmitt, Edoardo Morgado, Veronica Salsano, Filippo Ciarapica
Published in: 2025 IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology, and Innovation (ICE/ITMC), 2025, ISSN 2693-8855
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICE/ITMC65658.2025.11106647

A Digital Twin Modeling for the Production Line Optimized Management in the Soft and Deformable Food Sector

Author(s): Stefano Croci, Giovanni Mazzuto, Marco Ortenzi, Filippo Emanuele Ciarapica, Maurizio Bevilacqua, Gilberto Osler
Published in: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology, and Innovation (ICE/ITMC), 2024, ISSN 2693-8855
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICE/ITMC61926.2024.10794247

Detect, Augment, Compose, and Adapt: Four Steps for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation in Object Detection

Author(s): Mekhalfi, Mohamed Lamine; Boscaini, Davide; Poiesi, Fabio
Published in: Proceedings of the 34th British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC2023), 2023, ISSN 2308-1535
Publisher: arXiv
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2308.15353

Giovanni Mazzuto, Filippo Emanuele Ciarapica, Jan Hendrik Hellmich, Laura MoyaRuiz, Francisco Fraile Gil

Author(s): Giovanni Mazzuto, Filippo Emanuele Ciarapica, Jan Hendrik Hellmich, Laura MoyaRuiz, Francisco Fraile Gil
Published in: 2024
Publisher: CEUR Workshop Proceedings
DOI: 10.24406/W-34904

Peer reviewed articles (6)

Optimization of productive processes: case study on Italian kitchen manufacturer packaging line

Author(s): Lodovico Basilici Menini, Giulio Marcucci, Filippo Emanuele Ciarapica, Maurizio Bevilacqua
Published in: IFAC-PapersOnLine, Issue 59, 2025, ISSN 2405-8963
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.IFACOL.2025.09.313

Demand Forecasting Tool Driving the Digital Twin of a Perishable Food Process

Author(s): Laura Lucantoni, Stefano Croci, Giovanni Mazzuto, Filippo Emanuele Ciarapica, Maurizio Bevilacqua, Severino Perenzoni
Published in: IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, Issue 12, 2025, ISSN 2329-9266
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/JAS.2025.125591

Machine Vision and Robotics for Primary Food Manipulation and Packaging: A Survey

Author(s): Saigopal Vasudevan, Mohamed Lamine Mekhalfi, Carlos Blanes, Michela Lecca, Fabio Poiesi, Paul Ian Chippendale, Pablo Malvido Fresnillo, Wael M. Mohammed, Jose L. Martinez Lastra
Published in: IEEE Access, Issue 12, 2024, ISSN 2169-3536
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3479781

A Modular Approach to Adaptive Manufacturing: The AGILEHAND Architecture

Author(s): Mansoor Ahmed, Ruben Costa, Rui Branco, Jorge Calado, José Ferreira, Filippo Ciarapica, Francisco Fraile, Mohamed Lamine Mekhalfi
Published in: IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, Issue 12, 2026, ISSN 2329-9266
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/JAS.2025.125795

The resurrection of digital triplet: A cognitive pillar of human-machine integration at the dawn of industry 5.0

Author(s): Hassan Alimam, Giovanni Mazzuto, Nicola Tozzi, Filippo Emanuele Ciarapica, Maurizio Bevilacqua
Published in: Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences, 2023, ISSN 1319-1578
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/J.JKSUCI.2023.101846

Bimanual Motion Primitives for Manipulating 3D Deformable Objects Having Biological Tissues on a Planar Surface With Passive End-Effectors

Author(s): Hoang Pham, Pablo Malvido Fresnillo, Saigopal Vasudevan, Wael M. Mohammed, Jose L. Martinez Lastra
Published in: IEEE Access, Issue 13, 2025, ISSN 2169-3536
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3586079

Book chapters (2)

Artificial Intelligence Within Food Processing Industry with the Scope of Enhancing Workplace Safety: A Literature Review

Author(s): Laura Lucantoni, Giulio Marcucci, Filippo Emanuele Ciarapica
Published in: Proceedings of the I-ESA Conferences, Enterprise Interoperability XI, 2025
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-93995-2_4

6DGS: 6D Pose Estimation from a Single Image and a 3D Gaussian Splatting Model

Author(s): Bortolon Matteo, Theodore Tsesmelis, Stuart James, Fabio Poiesi, Alessio Del Bue
Published in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Computer Vision – ECCV 2024, 2024
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-72943-0_24