Research and development of a highly automated and safe streamlined process for increased Lithium-ion battery repurposing and recycling

Project Information

REBELION

Grant agreement ID: 101104241

DOI

10.3030/101104241

EC signature date 21 April 2023

Start date 1 June 2023

End date 30 November 2026

Funded under

• Climate, Energy and Mobility

Total cost

€ 3 764 298,75

EU contribution

€ 3 764 298,50

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE VALENCIA
Spain

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (12)

Project Management Plan updated at the end of the 1st Reporting Period

Updated management plan including a Gantt chart, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and schedule per task, It will include a description of the responsible partners, related subtasks, related deliverables, and dependencies on other tasks.

Safety protocols

List of possible risk and related protocols with safety guidelines to avoid accidents along the project

Project Management Plan

Initial management plan including a Gantt chart, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and schedule per task. It will include a description of the responsible partners, related subtasks, related deliverables, and dependencies on other tasks.

PDEC, updated at M18

PlanforDissemination,Exploitation and Communication including definition of KPIs

Labelling data sources

Report with the labelling data types required and related data sources

SoA recycling process

Benchmark of existing infrastructures and processes for manual sorting and recycling treatment

Quality Plan and Risk Assessment

Description of the quality monitoring taken for the project. It will include a detailed assessment consistent with the project development.

Data Management Plan

Explanation of the detailed plan for the use of secured data management and sharing. This will be the initial plan, that will be updated along the project.

Batteries list

List of detailed car/battery models available in the market and selection of those used in the project

Inventory of Policies

Excel enabling partners to look for available policies and standards through several filters

LEL and LOI Parameters

Key parameter thresholds to guarantee safety of the LIBs in the different processes

PDEC

PlanforDissemination,Exploitation and Communication including definition of KPIs.

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Communication materials

Communication materials, including set up of accounts for social media channels, newsletters, project related videos, project website and intranet

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (14)

Evaluating Task Optimization and Reinforcement Learning Models in Robotic Task Parameterization

Author(s): Michele Delledonne, Enrico Villagrossi, Manuel Beschi, Alireza Rastegarpanah
Published in: IEEE Access, Issue 12, 2024, ISSN 2169-3536
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3504354

Physics-based model of a lithium-ion battery cell in Modelica

Author(s): Alfonso Urquía, Carla Martín-Villalba
Published in: Mathematical and Computer Modelling of Dynamical Systems, Issue 31, 2025, ISSN 1387-3954
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/13873954.2025.2509513

Hybrid Neural Networks for Enhanced Prediction of Remaining Useful Life in Lithium-Ion Batteries

Author(s): Alireza Rastegarpanah; Mohammed Asif; Rustam Stolkin
Published in: MDPI Batteries, Issue 10(3), 106, 2024, ISSN 2313-0105
Publisher: MDPI and ACS Style
DOI: 10.3390/batteries10030106

Multi-Robot Task Planning for Efficient Battery Disassembly in Electric Vehicles

Author(s): Cansu Erdogan; Cesar Contreras; Rustam Stolkin; Alireza Rastegarpanah
Published in: Robotics, 2024, ISSN 2218-6581
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/ROBOTICS13050075

Electric Vehicle Battery Disassembly Using Interfacing Toolbox for Robotic Arms

Author(s): Alireza Rastegarpanah; Carmelo Mineo; Cesar Alan Contreras; Ali Aflakian; Giovanni Paragliola; Rustam Stolkin
Published in: Batteries, 2024, ISSN 2313-0105
Publisher: MDP AG
DOI: 10.3390/BATTERIES10050147

A mini-review on mobile manipulators with Variable Autonomy

Author(s): Cesar Alan Contreras; Alireza Rastegarpanah; Alireza Rastegarpanah; Manolis Chiou; Rustam Stolkin
Published in: Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2025, ISSN 2296-9144
Publisher: Frontiers in Robotics and AI
DOI: 10.3389/FROBT.2025.1540476

Task-aware motion planning in constrained environments using GMM-informed RRT planners

Author(s): Abdelaziz Shaarawy, Alireza Rastegarpanah, Rustam Stolkin
Published in: Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, Issue 97, 2025, ISSN 0736-5845
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.RCIM.2025.103095

Technoeconomic Assessment of Electric Vehicle Battery Disassembly-Challenges and Opportunities From a Robotics Perspective

Author(s): Jamie Hathaway, Cesar Alan Contreras, Mohammed Eesa Asif, Rustam Stolkin, Alireza Rastegarpanah
Published in: IEEE Access, Issue 13, 2025, ISSN 2169-3536
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3520414

Journal of Manufacturing Systems

Author(s): Kaarlela, Tero; Villagrossi, Enrico; Rastegarpanah, Alireza; San-Miguel-Tello, Alberto; Pitkäaho, Tomi
Published in: Journal of Manufacturing Systems, 2024, ISSN 0278-6125
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.JMSY.2024.05.013

Haptic Teleoperation in Extended Reality for Electric Vehicle Battery Disassembly Using Gaussian Mixture Regression

Author(s): Alireza Rastegarpanah, Carmelo Mineo, Cesar Alan Contreras, Abdelaziz Shaarawy, Giovanni Paragliola, Rustam Stolkin
Published in: Journal of Field Robotics, 2025, ISSN 1556-4959
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/ROB.70079

Journal of Manufacturing Systems

Author(s): Mohammed Eesa Asif, Alireza Rastegarpanah, Rustam Stolkin
Published in: Journal of Manufacturing Systems, Issue 77, 2024, ISSN 0278-6125
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.JMSY.2024.09.010

Self-supervised cross-modality learning for uncertainty-aware object detection and recognition in applications which lack pre-labelled training data

Author(s): Mehboob, Irum; Sun, Li; Astegarpanah, Alireza; Stolkin, Rustam
Published in: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV), 2024, ISSN 0000-0000
Publisher: arVix
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2411.03082

Environmentally Sustainable Raised Access Flooring Product Development

Author(s): Wenjie Peng; Daizhong Su; Shuyi Wang; Anton Ianakiev
Published in: Buildings, 2024, ISSN 2075-5309
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/BUILDINGS14061849

IEEE Access

Author(s): Ali Aflakian; Jamie Hathaway; Rustam Stolkin; Alireza Rastegarpanah
Published in: IEEE Access, 2024, ISSN 2169-3536
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3432644

Other (2)

Towards reuse and recycling of lithium-ion batteries: tele-robotics for disassembly of electric vehicle batteries

Author(s): Jamie Hathaway; Jamie Hathaway; Abdelaziz Shaarawy; Cansu Akdeniz; Ali Aflakian; Ali Aflakian; Rustam Stolkin; Rustam Stolkin; Alireza Rastegarpanah; Alireza Rastegarpanah
Published in: Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2023, ISSN 2296-9144
Publisher: Frontiers in Robotics and AI
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2304.01065

Advanced robotics for automated EV battery testing using electrochemical impedance spectroscopy

Author(s): Alireza Rastegarpanah; Alireza Rastegarpanah; Alireza Rastegarpanah; Cesar Alan Contreras; Mohamed Ahmeid; Mohamed Ahmeid; Mohammed Eesa Asif; Enrico Villagrossi; Rustam Stolkin; Rustam Stolkin
Published in: Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2025, ISSN 2296-9144
Publisher: Frontiers in Robotics and AI
DOI: 10.3389/FROBT.2024.1493869

Conference proceedings (2)

Semi-autonomous Robotic Disassembly Enhanced by Mixed Reality

Author(s): Alireza Rastegarpanah, Cesar Alan Contreras, Rustam Stolkin
Published in: Proceedings of the 2024 4th International Conference on Robotics and Control Engineering, 2024
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3674746.3674748

Imitation learning for sim-to-real transfer of robotic cutting policies based on residual Gaussian process disturbance force model

Author(s): Hathaway, Jamie; Stolkin, Rustam; Rastegarpanah, Alireza
Published in: International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2023
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2311.04096