Descripción del proyecto
Un salto adelante en la tecnología de manipulación
La intrincada destreza de las manos humanas supone un reto para la robótica. Las máquinas convencionales no pueden emular la destreza y adaptabilidad humanas a la hora de manipular objetos diversos en entornos complejos. En este contexto, el equipo del proyecto MANiBOT, financiado con fondos europeos, pretende colmar esta laguna desarrollando robots móviles bimanuales dotados de una destreza manipuladora sin parangón. El equipo del proyecto surge como un faro de innovación, con el objetivo de acortar la brecha entre las capacidades de manipulación humana y robótica. Ante la complejidad de manipular objetos diversos en entornos cambiantes, en este proyecto se pretende abrir una nueva era de robots móviles bimanuales con habilidades similares a las humanas. Los resultados del proyecto se probarán en cuatro casos de uso en los sectores minorista y del transporte, abordando tareas como la reposición de estanterías y la gestión de equipajes.
Objetivo
The MANiBOT research aims at bi-manual mobile robots, able to perform a wide variety of manipulation tasks with highly diverse objects, possibly partly or fully unknown beforehand, in a human-like manner and performance. To achieve this, we advance and fuse all necessary technologies, from multimodal perception, cognition and control, to novel cognitive mechatronics. We develop new environment understanding and object/pose recognition methods, empowered through adaptive, context-aware fusion of vision, proximity and tactile sensing and emphasizing on adequate efficiency for fast and effective manipulation, even of objects without precise model, including deformable ones, and in diverse, challenging environments with human presence. We also develop a novel suite of manipulation primitives including non-prehensile manipulations, which along with bi-manual manipulation will allow the transfer of diverse objects with various sizes, weights, shapes, materials and rigidities from a mobile robot, with performance close to that of humans, even upon significant spatial constraints. The above are fused through a novel approach for robot cognitive functions based on multi-level robot cycles that allow learning, composing and swiftly adapting robot behaviors for complex manipulations, covering key topics of sequential manipulation of multiple objects to achieve complex goals. We push the limits of physical intelligence of bimanual mobile robots by coupling our methods with novel cognitive mechatronics, fusing advanced tactile and proximity sensors with a bi-manual mobile manipulator, optimized for energy efficiency and increased autonomy, including HRI capabilities for trustworthy and efficient operation. Our outcomes will be evaluated in four use cases, in three pilot sites (TRL5), in challenging environments where the handling of abundance of different objects is needed; in retail/supermarkets and transport/airports, for shelves restocking and baggage handling operations.
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HORIZON-CL4-2022-DIGITAL-EMERGING-02
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