FourByThree has developed this ‘kit’ concept. The hardware kit is basically composed of four different actuators, the mechanical elements to create the arm, the electrical cabinet and different devices for interaction and safety (projection system, vision cameras).
The software tools are those needed to control and program the robot, safety and interaction components, the simulation wizard and the dynamic planning component. All of them are part of the FourByThree architecture.
To achieve a safe behaviour of the robot, FourByThree has implemented three basic components
• Force Monitoring, it is implemented at the actuator level, using the deflection of the springs and the motor intensity to estimate the force value.
• Speed and Separation Monitoring, implemented by means of two different components:
o the Projection system
o the proximity monitoring.
FourByThree provides different mechanisms to facilitate the interaction with the robot:
• The projection system can project information to the user and generate virtual buttons for interaction.
• A wearable user interface with and standard GUI in a handheld.
• Semantic interaction: Voice and gesture based interaction.
The control architecture is based on the ROS framework and allows introducing new features in the future.
The consortium has worked on the definition of this model and the strategy. To this aim, an ESS (Exploitation Strategic Seminar) and a BPD (Business Plan Development) have taken place. The final exploitation plan includes a webshop (
http://cobot-shop.eu/(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie)) .
To promote the concept of human robot collaboration among the general public and industry stakeholders has been achieved by means of an intensive activity at three different levels:
• Participation in scientific and industry events, focused workshops (with industry and students).
• Face to face meetings with different industrial companies.
• General public, by the presence on those events, the website and the presence in different media.
