Descripción del proyecto
Robots híbridos, móviles y de doble brazo para la fabricación dinámicamente reconfigurable
Los equipos de producción incapaces de realizar múltiples tareas en entornos dinámicos socavan la productividad de los modelos de producción en serie. La industria de la Unión Europea se enfrenta al reto de depender de mano de obra barata debido al rápido aumento de los salarios y al incremento de los costes energéticos y logísticos. Los robots convencionales no pueden garantizar tareas manuales totalmente automatizadas debido a factores como, por ejemplo, la alta variabilidad del producto, el equipo de proceso dedicado y los gastos de mantenimiento. El sector manufacturero requiere conceptos de producción innovadores que hagan hincapié en la autonomía y la colaboración entre los recursos de producción. En el proyecto THOMAS, financiado con fondos europeos, se creará un taller reconfigurable dinámicamente empleando robots autónomos, móviles y de doble brazo capaces de percibir su entorno, colaborar entre sí y trabajar junto a otros recursos de producción y operarios humanos.
Objetivo
The productivity of the serial production model is compromised by the need to perform changes in the production equipment that cannot support multiple operations in dynamic environments. Low cost labour is no longer an option for EU manufacturers due to the fast rise of wages and the increasing costs of energy and logistics. Manual tasks cannot be fully automated with a good ratio of cost vs robustness using standard robots due to: high product variability, dedicated process equipment and high cost of maintenance by expert users. The answer to this challenge lays in the creation of production concepts that base their operation on the autonomy and collaboration between production resources.
The vision of THOMAS is: “to create a dynamically reconfigurable shopfloor utilizing autonomous, mobile dual arm robots that are able to perceive their environment and through reasoning, cooperate with each other and with other production resources including human operators”.
The objective of THOMAS are to:
- Enable mobility on products and resources. Introducing mobile robots able to navigate in the shopfloor and utilize dexterous tooling to perform multiple operations.
- Enabling perception of the task and the environment using a) the individual resource’s and b) collaborative perception by combining sensors of multiple resources
- Dynamic balancing of workload. Allowing the resources to communicate over a common network and automatically adjust their behaviour by sharing or reallocating tasks dynamically.
- Fast programming and automatic execution of new tasks by a) automatically generating the robot program for new products and b) applying skills over the perceived environment to determine required adaptations
- Safe human robot collaboration, eliminating physical barriers, by introducing cognitive abilities that allow the detection of humans and their intentions
THOMAS will demonstrate and validate its developments in the automotive and the aeronautics industrial sectors.
Ámbito científico
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsproduction economicsproductivity
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensors
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringaeronautical engineering
Programa(s)
Convocatoria de propuestas
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H2020-FOF-2016
Régimen de financiación
IA - Innovation actionCoordinador
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