Descrizione del progetto
Un nuovo congegno-ispettore per l’ispezione delle infrastrutture
La vecchia Europa ha bisogno di un nuovo approccio altamente tecnologico per rinnovare le sue infrastrutture obsolete, quali ponti, tunnel o le decine di raffinerie di petrolio. Crescono le preoccupazioni sulla sicurezza delle infrastrutture. Si stanno esplorando nuove soluzioni per sviluppare sistemi a basso costo e al tempo stesso su vasta scala in grado di dare una mano nella manutenzione delle infrastrutture. Il progetto PILOTING, finanziato dall’UE, propone una soluzione di ispezione robotica. Più specificamente, svilupperà una piattaforma integrata per dimostrare l’applicazione della robotica nel settore dell’ispezione e della manutenzione, su scala industriale. Il progetto condurrà tre test pilota in diversi settori: raffinerie di petrolio e gas, ponti e tunnel. L’obiettivo è quello di minimizzare i costi, i rischi e le alterazioni associate alle ispezioni e alla manutenzione strutturali.
Obiettivo
Current European refineries and civil infrastructures, like tunnels and bridges, are ageing, and therefore gradually become deteriorated, especially taking into consideration the current and future economic situation in Europe where large investments in renewing infrastructures are not foreseen. Then, it is paramount important to increase the efficiency and quality of inspection and maintenance activities in order to keep the necessary safety levels in these ageing infrastructures. To overcome this important challenge, PILOTING proposes the adaptation, integration, and demonstration of robotic solutions, in an integrated platform, which will be tested and evaluated in three large-scale pilots: refineries (Oil&Gas sector), bridges/viaducts and tunnels (Civil/Transport Infrastructure sector) with the involvement of all the actors that conform the full value chain. The developed platform will: demonstrate the application of robotics at scale in the domain of Inspection and Maintenance (I&M), reduce end-user commercial risks on the deployment of robotics in the sector, demonstrate capabilities and improve understanding of robotics uptake value, develop and support the related ecosystem around the piloting I&M operations, as well as, contribute to industrial standards in robotics for I&M. To achieve the above, PILOTING will develop an advanced robotic-based platform that will be deployed in the three industrial scenarios and demonstrate the real value towards the inspection and maintenance community as well as its high level socio-economic impact when applied at scale. PILOTING will establish large-scale pilots in real industrial environments to directly reply to main I&M challenges through the demonstration of: increasing rate of inspection and maintenance tasks, improving coverage and performance, decreasing costs and time of operations, improving inspection quality and increasing safety of operators.
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IA - Innovation actionCoordinatore
41039 La Rinconada Sevilla
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