Automation and Robotics for EUropean Sustainabile manufacturing

Objective

European Factories of the Future will have to be smart and green:
• SMART: high performance, reconfigurable, adaptive and evolving factories based on robotic technologies ,
• GREEN: reduced ecological footprint through a more efficient use, at factory level, of material and energy resources.
Industrial Robotics is the strategic technology needed to keep the European Manufacturing leading edge, unfortunately it is intrinsically energy intensive, and its massive adoption compromises factories’ sustainability. The AREUS project objective is to overcome this limitation providing an innovative integrated technology and engineering platform, intrinsically interdisciplinary, modular and configurable based on four innovations:
1. An integrated set of Energy Consumption reduction technologies (R-ECO) based on a novel factory electrical power supply system to exchange, harvest, store and recover energy at factory level improving the use of renewable energy sources
2. A Robotic production systems Integrated Design and simulation environment (R-ID) for the eco-efficient design of robotic plants focused on the simulation of energy flows under a co-evolving product-process-robotic production systems approach
3. A Robotic manufacturing processes OPTimization environment (R-OPT) for the optimal sustainable production scheduling under a control engineering approach
4. LCA methods(R-LCA) to assess and optimize both environmental and economic costs linked with the flows of Material, Energy and Waste (MEW) of co-evolving products and processes realized with robotic production systems
These building blocks will enable the modular and scalable/progressive development of singularly optimized sustainable robotic manufacturing applications (or the re-adaptation of existing production facilities) and will be demonstrated on 7 industrial case studies for their future exploitment.

Fields of science

• engineering and technology › electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering › electronic engineering › control engineering
• engineering and technology › electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering › electronic engineering › robotics

Programme(s)

• FP7-NMP - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies

Topic(s)

• FoF.NMP.2013-1 - Improved use of renewable resources at factory level

Call for proposal

FP7-2013-NMP-ICT-FOF(RTD)
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Funding Scheme

CP-TP - Collaborative Project targeted to a special group (such as SMEs)

Coordinator

UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MODENA E REGGIO EMILIA

Address

Via Universita 4
41121 Modena
Italy

Activity type

Higher or Secondary Education Establishments

EU contribution

€ 518 724,40

Administrative Contact

Angelo Oreste Andrisano (Prof.)

Participants (11)

RIGAS TEHNISKA UNIVERSITATE

Latvia

EU contribution

€ 365 716

Address

Kalku Iela 1
1658 Riga

Activity type

Higher or Secondary Education Establishments

Administrative Contact

Laura Vitola (Ms.)

CHALMERS TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLA AB

Sweden

EU contribution

€ 435 064,50

Address

-
41296 Goeteborg

Activity type

Higher or Secondary Education Establishments

Administrative Contact

Anna Lund (Ms.)

DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET

Denmark

EU contribution

€ 392 636,85

Address

Anker Engelundsvej 1 Bygning 101 A
2800 Kgs Lyngby

Activity type

Higher or Secondary Education Establishments

Administrative Contact

Charlotte Olsson

DAIMLER AG

Germany

EU contribution

€ 509 659,50

Address

Mercedesstrasse 137
70327 Stuttgart

Activity type

Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)

Administrative Contact

Ekkehard Graf (Mr.)

DELFOI OY

Finland

EU contribution

€ 156 005,50

Address

Vanrikinkuja 2
02600 Espoo

Activity type

Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)

Administrative Contact

Martin Feike (Mr.)

ENGROTEC - CONSULTING GMBH

Germany

EU contribution

€ 258 996,80

Address

Salzmannweg 8
73732 Esslingen Am Neckar

Activity type

Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)

Administrative Contact

Vollmer Daniel (Mr.)

KUKA DEUTSCHLAND GMBH

Germany

EU contribution

€ 284 311,65

Address

Zugspitzstrasse 140
86165 Augsburg

Activity type

Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)

Administrative Contact

Reinoud Van Der Vliet (Mr.)

SIR SPA

Italy

EU contribution

€ 369 440,80

Address

Strada Canaletto Centro 450
41100 Modena

Activity type

Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)

Administrative Contact

Paolo Grasso (Mr.)

DANFOSS A/S

Denmark

EU contribution

€ 91 080

Address

Nordborgvej 81
6430 Nordborg

Activity type

Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)

Administrative Contact

Christian Mikkelsen (Mr.)

Delfoi GmbH

Germany

EU contribution

€ 178 544

Address

Ringstrasse 23
55129 Mainz

Activity type

Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)

Administrative Contact

Martin Feike (Dr.)

SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT

Germany

EU contribution

€ 119 820

Address

Werner-von-siemens-str. 1
80333 Munchen

Activity type

Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)

Administrative Contact

Mirjam Antunovic (Mrs.)