Descrizione del progetto
Realizzare robot con pinze intelligenti e abili
Numerose attività che coinvolgono la manipolazione di oggetti deformabili, dalla chirurgia all’imballaggio e dalla manipolazione degli alimenti alla produzione automobilistica, sono svolti da abili operatori umani, ma i progressi tecnologici potrebbero un giorno far sì che siano i robot a svolgere tale lavoro. Il progetto SOFTMANBOT, finanziato dall’UE, fornirà un sistema robotico innovativo e olistico per la manipolazione di materiali flessibili e deformabili all’interno di processi di produzione ad alta intensità di manodopera. Il sistema includerà pinze intelligenti e abili che consentiranno ai robot di afferrare e manipolare con sensori integrati (principalmente tattili). Il progetto metterà alla prova la tecnologia in ambienti di rilevanza industriale in quattro settori manifatturieri fondamentali (giocattoli, tessuti, calzature e pneumatici). I risultati contribuiranno ai progressi tecnologici per aiutare i robot a svolgere un ruolo più importante nelle fabbriche europee.
Obiettivo
SOFTMANBOT is an industrial-end-user driven project that will provide an innovative and holistic robotic system for the handling of flexible and deformable materials within labour-intensive production processes. The robotic system will be composed by three main pillars including a generic robotic perception system (perception of the product and the human operator), a multi-sensor control and planning platform (advanced control algorithms for shape and contact servoing, AI based task generalization) and smart dexterous grippers (smart mechanical design which will embody grasping/manipulation skills and integrate sensors – mainly tactile – for identifying precisely the contact state between the product and the gripper) able to handle soft components with high-levels of robustness and flexibility. The automation solution is aimed to work in close collaboration with human operators in order to help them in the execution of contact-based challenging tasks so that the productivity and job quality will be boosted which will highly contribute to bring back production to Europe. Special attention will be paid to the integration of novel robotic concepts based on aspects of safety, ergonomics, adaptability, acceptance and user experience. In order to facilitate the assessment of the performance, transferability, scalability and large scale deployment of these solutions, the demonstrations will be conducted under real industrially relevant environments in four pilot demonstrators involving four key manufacturing sectors – toy, textile, footwear and tyre –. The project is not just aiming at quantitative improvements brought by cutting-edge technologies in a specific sector, but to use technology innovation to support a change of paradigm where handling of soft materials with the involvement of robots become a feasible and widespread alternative for European factories, specially SMEs.
Campo scientifico
- social sciencessociologyindustrial relationsautomation
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringtextiles
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensors
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringrobotics
- social sciencespsychologyergonomics
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H2020-NMBP-FOF-2019
Meccanismo di finanziamento
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinatore
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