Objective The project objectives aims to radically innovate industrial robots in different application contexts. The design objectives will be demonstrated in real operating conditions. Increase in flexibility and adaptability, cost reduction and increase of the field of applications in the job floor, will be obtained by developing the needed know how and experimental evidence for new generations of high performing embedded control systems. This will require to integrate - in dedicated hardware and software subsystems and components - the most advanced base technologies and a new class of control techniques. Lower cost will be assured by choosing a soft/hard flexible standard architecture with optimal compromise between standard components and interfaces, and the use of deeply integrated components. The control system will differ from existing solutions (top-down open-control of the arms joints) for the type of control technology used and the level of component integration. A higher level of control will be added to close the control chains, feeding back information from added environmental sensory devices. Disparate technologies will be investigated and integrated in end-user industrial scenarios: topics include control theory, video sensors, integrated circuits, visual processing algorithms, sensors fusion, communication networks, middleware software packages, real time operating systems, and robot design. The project will therefore also represent a challenge to the present knowledge in all those disciplines, feeding back important information for their advancement. The project approach, leveraging on existing research and standardization efforts and on results already in place in the robotic industry, will guarantee enough flexibility for exploitation and adoption in the larger market of industrial automation. The partners well represent the various interests and stakeholders, from end products manufacturers, to subsystems and components suppliers, to RandD institutions. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware applicationssystem softwareoperating systemsengineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringcontrol systemssocial sciencessociologyindustrial relationsautomationengineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensors Programme(s) FP6-NMP - Nanotechnologies and nanosciences, knowledge-based multifunctional materials and new production processes and devices: thematic priority 3 under the 'Focusing and integrating community research' of the 'Integrating and strengthening the European Research Area' specific programme 2002-2006. Topic(s) NMP-2004-IST-NMP-1 - Integrating Technologies for the Fast and Flexible Manufacturing Enterprise Call for proposal FP6-2004-IST-NMP-2 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project Coordinator EICAS AUTOMAZIONE SPA Address Via vincenzo vela, 27 Torino Italy See on map Links Website Opens in new window EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (6) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all ACCENT SRL Italy EU contribution € 0,00 Address Via torri bianche 3 Vimercate See on map Links Website Opens in new window COMAU SPA Italy EU contribution € 0,00 Address Via rivalta 30 Grugliasco (to) See on map Links Website Opens in new window FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Hansastrasse 27 c Munchen See on map Links Website Opens in new window INSTITUT JOZEF STEFAN Slovenia EU contribution € 0,00 Address Jamova 39 Ljubljana See on map Links Website Opens in new window UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN Belgium EU contribution € 0,00 Address Prinsstraat 13 Antwerpen See on map Links Website Opens in new window ZURICH UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES WINTERTHUR, INSTITUTE OF MECHATRONIC SYSTEMS Switzerland EU contribution € 0,00 Address Technikumstrasse 9 Winterthur See on map Links Website Opens in new window
