Description du projet
Le côté humain de la collaboration entre l’homme et le robot
Afin de répondre au besoin croissant de lignes de production flexibles, le paradigme de la fabrication doit évoluer afin de comporter des solutions hybrides qui combinent les capacités des humains et des machines. Si les améliorations technologiques des solutions de collaboration homme-robot (HRC) suscitent une grande attention, le bien-être psychologique et social de l’opérateur demeure un sujet méconnu, ce qui est source de problèmes en termes de performance et d’acceptation, liés aux applications et à la complexité. Le projet SHERLOCK, financé par l’UE, comble ces lacunes et a pour ambition de développer des applications robotiques centrées sur l’homme, flexibles et sûres, destinées aux nouveaux lieux de travail collaboratifs. Le projet introduit de nouvelles technologies robotiques, comme les robots collaboratifs capables d’emporter une charge utile élevée ou faible, les exosquelettes et les robots mobiles à double bras, et les améliore en les dotant d’une mécatronique intelligente et d’une cognition fondée sur l’IA pour renforcer les capacités humaines. Les nouveaux ateliers de SHERLOCK garantissent la sécurité, l’acceptation et le bien-être de leurs opérateurs.
Objectif
Human robot collaboration (HRC) has evolved to address the need for flexible production, presenting however drawbacks such as: Inability to cover all applications, Low performance/quality of collaboration and Complexity. SHERLOCK aims to introduce the latest safe robotic technologies in production environments, enhancing them with smart mechatronics and AI based cognition, creating efficient HRC stations that are designed to be safe and guarantee the acceptance/wellbeing of operators. SHERLOCK’s objectives are driven by production requirements involving:
1. Soft Robotics Collaborative Production Station: Starting from a human safety basis:
- AURA a high payload collaborative manipulator
- Smart exoskeletons with adjustable operation
- Safe mobile dual arm manipulators
2. Human - centred interaction, collaboration and awareness by developing
- Interfaces inspiring trust/familiarity, allowing seamless HR interaction
- Methods for assessing user impact of HRC systems
- Design principles/standards to maintain operator psychological safety/wellbeing in HRC
- Production setups for people with special restrictions exploiting the robot’s cognition
3. AI enabled cognition for autonomous HRC applications: enabling robots to understand their environment, reason over it and adapt by:
-Multi-level perception for process and environment assessment
- Safe workspace monitoring systems
- Autonomous planning and coordination of human robot tasks
- Interactive learning, adapting to operator and simplifying teaching of new tasks
4. Modules for design and certification of Safe HRC applications:
- Automated Risk Assessment tools within design/simulation packages
- VR/AR tools for validating collaborative operations - reducing certification time
- Software tools for Formal on-line safety assessment
- AR/VR training methods specialized for HRC
SHERLOCK will demonstrate its result in 4 sectors: elevators, industrial modules, aeronautics structures and machine tools production.
Champ scientifique
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftware
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringmechatronics
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringroboticssoft robotics
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringaeronautical engineering
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