Description du projet
L’équipement mobile lourd au service de l’innovation
Les secteurs européens de la construction, de la logistique et de l’agriculture sont confrontés à de multiples défis liés à l’accroissement de la productivité et de l’efficacité. Pour y faire face, le projet MORE, financé par l’UE, a réuni cinq entreprises d’équipements mobiles lourds (HDM) (J. Deere, Liebherr, Bosch Rexroth, HIAB, Volvo CE) et quatre groupes universitaires hautement spécialisés. En tant que tout premier programme de recherche et de formation du doctorat industriel européen (EID), il répondra à ce besoin et comblera les lacunes dans la recherche et la formation connexes. Le projet permettra à huit chercheurs en début de carrière d’acquérir un ensemble de compétences en matière de recherche, notamment en robotique, en apprentissage machine, en systèmes énergétiques, ainsi que des compétences transférables comme l’entrepreneuriat et la gestion de carrière. Il apportera des solutions innovantes issues de la numérisation et de l’intelligence artificielle.
Objectif
Ever-increasing demand for material and food, stricter emissions regulations, and continuous globalisation has put Europe’s construction, logistics, and agriculture sectors under immense pressure. Dramatic improvements in their productivity and efficiency are the only answer to these global challenges. Heavy-duty mobile (HDM) machinery are crucial workhorses in these sectors. Europe`s major HDM equipment companies (J. Deere, Liebherr, Bosch Rexroth, HIAB, Volvo CE) have joined forces with four highly specialised academic groups to deliver MORE, a timely project in response to these urgent needs.
MORE will address these challenges by delivering innovative solutions driven by digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in three areas: 1) Processes: world modelling by combining machine-earth interaction with vision, and optimising material flow in construction sites, 2) Machines: creating efficient power-train solutions for heavy-duty booms and 3) Control: object classification and world modelling to support long-term autonomy; obstacle avoidance in adverse conditions; innovative solutions on transfer-learning for earth moving and boom control to reduce operational and development costs, in different application areas.
Europe’s HDM machine industry needs to invest heavily in digitalization, ‘green’ and innovative technologies, and address the serious labour shortage. There is thus a rapidly growing demand for experts in HDM machinery having the big picture of trends in AI, robotics, and energy systems as well as an understanding of the challenges and opportunities.
MORE is an innovative European Industrial Doctorate (EID) research and training programme, the first of its kind, that will address this need and fill the gap in related research and training. Eight early stage researchers will be equipped with a set of research skills including robotics, machine learning, energy systems, as well as transferable skills such as entrepreneurship and career management.
Champ scientifique
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managemententrepreneurship
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsproduction economicsproductivity
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringrobotics
- social sciencessociologyglobalization
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencemachine learning
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MSCA-ITN - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN)Coordinateur
33100 Tampere
Finlande