As TRINITY aims at becoming the central institution for cooperation and technology transfer between academia and industry in flexible automation and robotic systems, one strategic mission will be the dissemination of the results to the scientific community, to end users and to the producers of the technology.
During the first period TRINITY has started to built the community via social media presence, organisation of thematic workshops, seminars and DeepDive events for the industry and academia. The main focus has been on the development of the core content of the TRINITY that are the 18 use case demonstrations and the 32 modules the use case demonstrations are using. From the early beginnings of the project, the Digital Access Point (DAP) has been set up. Through this portal, all the news, events, press releases will be published and widely available to the public.
During the 2nd period the focus has been on extending the TRINITY network via open calls, match-making events, seminars and other dissemination events. Special focus was paid to the 3rd objective e.g. the delivery of the critical mass of use case demonstrations. The demonstrations were modularised to be more user friendly and re-usable for the industrial partners. Each of these included set-up and training material published as video tutorials. The Digital Access Point was opened and the use case demonstrations and modules from the partners, 3rd parties in the demonstration program 1 and TRINITY community members can now publish their work in the DAP. The TRINITY publications, 14 are open access publications (with max 6 months embargo) and these have been also published in universities own open access collections and e.g. research gate. The collaboration with the sister projects is going on steadily.
During the 3rd period the focus was on the completion of the demonstration program 2 results, deployment of the new networking functionalities to the Digital Access Point (DAP) including the finalisation of the free educational material (e.g. final versions of the tutorials) related to the internal demonstrators and building of the solid foundation to the TRINITY network. TRINITY resulted over 30 open access publications during its runtime, and several will appear post-project about the TRINITY results. The third objective of TRINITY was to make the industry aware of the possibilities of the robotics solutions in the manufacturing sector and help the companies to deploy these faster. To increase the deployment of robotics in each priority application area TRINITY approach consisted of different sets of concrete use case demonstrations highly relevant to the manufacturing sector. In the beginning TRINITY core partners introduced 18 use case demonstrations originating from the industrial needs as the examples where and how the emerging technology can be applied. The TRINITY started its operation by developing demonstrators in the areas of robotics we identified as the most promising to advance agile production, e.g. collaborative robotics including sensory systems to ensure safety, effective user interfaces based on augmented reality and speech, reconfigurable robot workcells and peripheral equipment, programming by demonstration, IoT, secure wireless networks, etc. These demonstrators served as reference implementation for two rounds of open calls for application experiments, where companies with agile production needs and sound business plans will be supported by TRINITY DIHs to advance their manufacturing processes. As a result TRINITY formed a solid pathway from laboratory level concepts to the functional prototypes, speeding up the technology uptake and return of the investments.
