Description du projet
Déployer des robots dans les hôpitaux et les bureaux
Les robots ont été introduits dans les entrepôts et les usines, dans les ateliers. À vrai dire, l’industrie manufacturière est actuellement le secteur qui fait le plus appel à la robotique. Il est probable que la prochaine étape majeure du déploiement de la robotique logistique concerne les espaces commerciaux intérieurs: hôpitaux, hôtels et bureaux. Non seulement ces espaces disposent d’un espace de navigation structuré, mais ils sont également équipés d’une infrastructure de communication fiable, une composante indispensable à la bonne marche des opérations commerciales. Dans cette optique, le projet ENDORSE, financé par l’UE, explorera des solutions pour automatiser entièrement les procédures et la traçabilité. Plus précisément, il se concentrera sur le développement de la navigation multi-robots sans infrastructure dans des espaces encombrés, et sur la conception de systèmes robotiques modulaires capables d’offrir à la fois des services de logistique et de télémédecine.
Objectif
Commercial indoor spaces such as hospitals, hotels, offices offer great potential for commercial exploitation of logistic robotics. Also, offer advantages for their deployment, since they are required by law to meet stringent building codes, and therefore the navigation space exhibits some structure. In addition, they offer reliable communications infrastructure, since this is required for normal business operation. Thus, commercial spaces are rightfully considered the next great field of logistic robotics deployment. Despite these advantages, today, few solutions exist, and these solutions do not trigger widespread acceptance by the market. This is because existing systems require costly infrastructure installation (arrays of peripheral sensors, mapping, etc.); they do not easily integrate to corporate IT solutions and as a result, they do not fully automate procedures and traceability; they are limited to a single type of service, i.e. transfer of goods.
Through transfer of knowledge, multidisciplinary research and cross-fertilization between academia and industry, ENDORSE will address the aforementioned technical hurdles. Four innovation pillars will be pursued: (i) infrastructure-less multi-robot navigation, i.e. minimum (if any) installation of sensors and communications buses inside the building for the localization of robots, targets and docking stations; (ii) advanced HRI for resolving deadlocks and achieving efficient sharing of space resources in crowded spaces; (iii) deployment of the ENDORSE software as a cloud-based service facilitating its integration with corporate software solutions such as ERP, CRM, etc.; (iv) reconfigurable and modular hardware architectures so that diverse modules can be easily swapped. The latter will be demonstrated and validated by the integration of an e-diagnostic support module (equipped with non-invasive sensors/devices) and the Electronic Health Records (EHR) interfacing, which will serve as an e-diagnostic mobile station
Champ scientifique
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftware
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensors
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringrobotics
- social scienceslaw
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