A Robust, Flexible and Scalable Cognitive Robotics Platform

Informations projet

RoBUTCHER

N° de convention de subvention: 871631

DOI 10.3030/871631

Projet clôturé

Date de signature de la CE 5 Decembre 2019

Date de début 1 Janvier 2020

Date de fin 30 Juin 2023

Financé au titre de

• INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

Coût total € 7 784 900,00

Contribution de l’UE € 7 536 303,50

Coordonné par

NORGES MILJO-OG BIOVITENSKAPLIGE UNIVERSITET
Norway

Livrables

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (3)

MFC simulation model

Robot studio simulation of RoBUTCHER MFC concept

Project web portal

The public project website will be launched

RoBUTCHER YouTube video demos

Video demonstrations at key points in the project lifetime

Documents, reports (12)

Report on performance of cell versus typical slaughter lines

Documentation of MFC performance in the context of slaughter versus typical line production

Robotics safety and legislative update

A report updating current legislation best practise or standards relating to robotic safety in the context of RoBUTCHER

Report on performance of cell versus typical cold cutting

Documentation of MFC performance in the context of cold deboning versus typical production

Periodic project newsletters

Newsletters to key target audiences regarding project activities and progress periodic dissemination at key intervals during the project

Challenges or hurdles related to end-user and authority's acceptance white paper

White paper illustrating challenges which impact enduser acceptance with proposed roadmap for addressing them

Review of available cutting tools, recommendations regarding direction to develop such tools

An indepth review document of available cutting tools with recommendations on the most suitable tools for use in RoBUTCHER

Robotics safety and legislation white paper

White paper highlighting key areas of legislation standardisation or best practise that present hurdles to implementation of the concepts developed in RoBUTCHER if any

Robotics safety and legislative review

A report on current legislation best practise or standards relating to robotic safety in the context of RoBUTCHER

Gripper state-of-the-art review

A joint scientific review published in an openaccess journal

Cutting tool evaluation

A joint scientific paper detailing the design of the sensor and tool as well as the validation outcome

Report on user engagement activities

This report documents users needs for the system based on their interaction with the demonstrator

Scientific article on S-LCA

Comparison between the social performance of the prepilot and postpilot MFC

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (2)

Prototype internal gripper

Delivery of prototype internal organ gripping solution including a demonstration of functionality

Prototype external gripper

Delivery of prototype external gripping solution including a demonstration of functionality

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data management plan

Initial data management plan established with the intention that it become a living document to be updated throughout the project delivery

Publications

Conference proceedings (29)

The Meat Factory Cell: A new way of thinking for meat producers

Auteurs: A. Mason; I. Esper; O. Korostynska; T. Haiddegger; A. Popov; L. B. Christensen; O. Alvseike
Publié dans: 2021 IEEE 21st International Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Informatics (CINTI), Numéro November 18 to November 20, 2021, 2022, ISBN 978-1-6654-2684-8
Éditeur: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/cinti53070.2021.9668455

Intelligent Cutting System for an Innovative Meat Factory Cell

Auteurs: Ian Esper Luis Eduardo Cordova-Lopez Pål J. From Alex Mason
Publié dans: European Robotics Forum 2021, Numéro April 13 to April 15, 2021, 2021, Page(s) 16-18
Éditeur: European Robotics Forum

Smart Knife for Robotic Meat Cutting

Auteurs: Alex Mason, Dmytro Romanov, Luis Eduardo Cordova-Lopez, Olga Korostynska
Publié dans: IEEE Sensors 2021, 2021
Éditeur: IEEE

Meat Factory Cell: Assisting meat processors address sustainability in meat production

Auteurs: A. Mason; O. Korostynska; L. E. Cordova-Lopez; I. Esper; D. Romanov; S. Ross; K. Takacs; T. Haidegger
Publié dans: 2021 IEEE 21st International Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Informatics (CINTI), Numéro November 18 to November 20, 2021, 2021, ISSN 2380-8586
Éditeur: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/cinti53070.2021.9668392

Robotic grippers for large and soft object manipulation

Auteurs: Kristof Takacs Alex Mason Lars Bager Christensen Tamas Haidegger
Publié dans: IEEE 20th International Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Design, 2020
Éditeur: IEEE

Computer Vision for Robotic Butcher

Auteurs: Andrii Liubivyi Oleh Smolkin Ian de Medeiros Esper Maksym Manko Igor Krashenyi Ivan Sahumbaiev Anton Popov Alex Mason
Publié dans: European Robotics Forum 2021, Numéro April 13 to April 15, 2021, 2021, Page(s) 7-9
Éditeur: European Robotics Forum

Opportunities and challenges for an automated, cell-based slaughtering-and-deboning of a pig carcass

Auteurs: Tomas Bolumar, Vaclav Pohunek, Ian Esper, Luis Eduardo Cordova-Lopez, Helle Røer, Alex Mason, Ole Alvseike
Publié dans: ICoMST 2022: 68th International Congress of Meat Science and Technology, Numéro August 22 to August 25, 2022, 2022
Éditeur: ICoMST2022

Social life cycle assessment of autonomous slaughterhouse cell systems

Auteurs: Clara Valente Hanne Møller Ellen‐Marie Forsberg
Publié dans: 12th International Conference on Life Cycle Assessment of Food, Numéro October 13 to October 16, 2020, 2020, Page(s) 689‐690, ISBN 9783000676048
Éditeur: Eberle, U., Smetana, S., Bos, U. (Eds.)‐LCAfood

Open Issues in Agri-food Robot Standardization—the Red Meat Sector

Auteurs: Kristof Takacs, Alex Mason, Luis Eduardo Cordova-Lopez, Tamas Haidegger
Publié dans: 2021 IEEE 15th International Symposium on Applied Computational Intelligence and Informatics (SACI), 2021, Page(s) 000363-000368, ISBN 978-1-7281-9544-5
Éditeur: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/saci51354.2021.9465611

Curve fitting-based deformation tracking for vision-based robotic applications

Auteurs: Abhaya Singh, Dmytro Romanov, Alex Mason
Publié dans: ICCMA 2023: 11th International Conference on Control, Mechatronics and Automation, Numéro November 1 to November 3, 2023, 2023
Éditeur: ICCMA

Inner Organ Manipulation During Automated Pig Slaughtering — Smart Gripping Approaches

Auteurs: Bence Takács, Takács Kristóf, Tivadar Garamvölgyi, Tamás Haidegger
Publié dans: IEEE 21st International Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Informatics (CINTI 2021), 2021
Éditeur: IEEE

Meat Factory Cell: Assisting meat processors address sustainability in meat production

Auteurs: Alex Mason, Olga Korostynska, L.uis Eduardo Cordova-Lopez, Ian Esper, Dmytro Romanov, Steven Ross, Tamás Haidegger, Kristóf Takács
Publié dans: IROS 2021, 2021
Éditeur: IROS

A positive working environment

Auteurs: Clara Valente, Fredrik Moltu Johnsen
Publié dans: XVI Convegno dell’Associazione Rete Italiana LCA, Numéro June 22 to June 24, 2022, 2022, ISBN 9791221004588
Éditeur: Italian LCA Network

Ex-vivo Porcine Model for Generating an Internal Surface in Biological Subjects using 3D-GAN

Auteurs: Ian de Medeiros Esper, Dmytro Romanov, Olga Korostynska, Pål Johan From, Alex Mason
Publié dans: 2022 IEEE 10th Jubilee International Conference on Computational Cybernetics and Cyber-Medical Systems (ICCC), Numéro July 6 to July 9, 2022, 2022
Éditeur: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/iccc202255925.2022.9922697

Analysis of Intelligent Force Control Methods for Red-Meat Gripping Applications

Auteurs: Kristóf Takács, Bence Takács, Sándor Tarsoly, Tivadar Garamvölgyi, Peter Galambos, Imre Rudas, Tamás Haidegger
Publié dans: 2022 IEEE 10th Jubilee International Conference on Computational Cybernetics and Cyber-Medical Systems (ICCC), 2022, Page(s) 215-220
Éditeur: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/iccc202255925.2022.9922732

Image Processing-Based Methods to Improve the Robustness of Robotic Gripping

Auteurs: Kristóf Takács, Renáta Nagyné Elek,Tamás Haidegger
Publié dans: 2022 IEEE 22nd International Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Informatics and 8th IEEE International Conference on Recent Achievements in Mechatronics, Automation, Computer Science and Robotics (CINTI-MACRo), 2022, Page(s) 345-350
Éditeur: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/cinti-macro57952.2022.10029473

Adaptation of a Pneumatic Knife and Vibration Sensor for Robotic Meat Cutting

Auteurs: Alex Mason, Dmytro Romanov, Olga Korostynska, Luis Eduardo Cordova-Lopez
Publié dans: CINTI 2021, 2021
Éditeur: Obuda University

Precision Solutions in Livestock Farming – feasibility and applicability of digital data collection

Auteurs: Márta Alexy, Tamás Haidegger
Publié dans: 2022 IEEE 10th Jubilee International Conference on Computational Cybernetics and Cyber-Medical Systems (ICCC), Numéro 2022, 2022, Page(s) 233-238, ISBN 978-1-6654-8178-6
Éditeur: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/iccc202255925.2022.9922883

3D Registration of Multiple RGB-D Cameras on Arbitrary Position of a Symmetric Object with No Overlapping in a Meat Factory Environment

Auteurs: Ian Esper, Luis Eduardo Cordova-Lopez, Pål Johan From, Alex Mason
Publié dans: CINTI 2021, 2021
Éditeur: Obuda University

Force Controlled Smart Gripper for Robotic Soft Tissue Manipulation

Auteurs: Kristóf Takács
Publié dans: ICRA 2023, Numéro May 29 to June 2, 2023, 2023
Éditeur: IEEE

Deep learning applications to gripping and cutting operations

Auteurs: A. Luibivyi, M. Manko, I. Sahumbaiev, O. Smolkin, I. Krashenyi, A. Popov, I. Esper and A. Mason
Publié dans: IROS 2021, 2021
Éditeur: IROS

Feasibility of Using NIR Spectroscopy in Automated Meat Cutting

Auteurs: Anna Mathew Hafiz Wajahat Hassan Peyman Mirtaheri Olga Korostynska
Publié dans: European Robotics Forum 2021, Numéro April 13 to April 15, 2021, 2021, Page(s) 28-30
Éditeur: European Robotics Forum

Human-Robot Collaboration in the Meat Industry

Auteurs: Dmytro Romanov Olga Korostynska Alex Mason
Publié dans: European Robotics Forum 2021, Numéro April 13 to April 15, 2021, 2021, Page(s) 13-15
Éditeur: European Robotics Forum

Application of a Novel Meat Factory Cell: RoBUTCHER

Auteurs: Alex Mason
Publié dans: ICRAE2023, Numéro November 17 to 19 November, 2023, 2023
Éditeur: ICRAE2023

Innovation in Holding Pluck of Pig Carcasses

Auteurs: Michaela Pinčeková, Luis Eduardo Cordova-Lopez, Alex Mason, Olga Korostynska
Publié dans: 2022 IEEE 10th Jubilee International Conference on Computational Cybernetics and Cyber-Medical Systems (ICCC), Numéro July 6 to July 9, 2022, 2022, Page(s) 221-224
Éditeur: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/iccc202255925.2022.9922896

Estimation of the pig’s limb orientation and gripping points based on the pose estimation deep neural networks

Auteurs: Maksym Manko, Oleh Smolkin, Ian de Medeiros Esper, Anton Popov, Alex Mason
Publié dans: 2022 IEEE 10th Jubilee International Conference on Computational Cybernetics and Cyber-Medical Systems (ICCC), 2022, Page(s) 245-250, ISBN 978-1-6654-8177-9
Éditeur: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/iccc202255925.2022.9922893

The influence of the environment on artificial intelligence for robot control

Auteurs: Jeppe Bo Andersen, Jon Ravnkjær Søndergaard, Lars Bager Christensen
Publié dans: ICEET2023, 2023
Éditeur: ICEET

S-LCA of a novel slaughter meat factory cell concept

Auteurs: Clara Valente Hanne Møller Fredrik Moltu Simon Saxegård Johnsen Ole Arne Alvseike
Publié dans: Pre-proceedings of the 7th Social Life Cycle Assessment Conference, 2020, Page(s) 99-100, ISBN 978-2-9562141-2-0
Éditeur: FruiTrop Thema

The Meat Factory Cell: A new robotic way of thinking for meat producers

Auteurs: Alex Mason, Olga Korostynska, Tamás Haiddegger, Anton Popov, Lars Bager Christensen, Ole Alvseike
Publié dans: CINTI 2021, 2021
Éditeur: Obuda University

Peer reviewed articles (18)

Life cycle sustainability assessment of a novel slaughter concept

Auteurs: Clara Valente, Hanne Møller, Fredrik Moltu Johnsen, Simon Saxegård, Elin Rasten Brunsdon, Ole Arne Alvseike
Publié dans: Journal of Cleaner Production, Numéro Volume 272, November 2020, 2020, Page(s) 122651, ISSN 0959-6526
Éditeur: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.122651

Effects of Meat Factory Cell on pork qualities, sensory characteristics and carcass hygiene: an exploratory study

Auteurs: M. Sødring; T. Thauland Håseth; E. Rasten Brunsdon; P. H. Bjørnstad; R. Sandnes; O. J. Røtterud; A. Mason; I. de Medeiros Esper; E. Hallenstvedt; P. Agerup; K. Kåsin; B. Egelandsdal; O. Alvseike
Publié dans: Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica, Numéro Volume 71; Numéro 1-4, 2022, Page(s) 89-113, ISSN 1470-1200
Éditeur: Taylor & Francis Online
DOI: 10.1080/09064702.2022.2113120

RoBUTCHER: A Novel Robotic Meat Factory Cell Platform for Meat Automation

Auteurs: Alex Mason, Ian Esper, Olga Korostynska, Luis Eduardo Cordova-Lopez, Dmytro Romanov, Michaela Pinčeková, Per Håkon Bjørnstad, Ole Alvseike, Anton Popov, Oleh Smolkin, Maksym Manko, Lars Bager Christensen, Kristóf Takács, Tamás Haidegger
Publié dans: International Journal of Robotics Research, Numéro - Under Review -, 2023, ISSN 0278-3649
Éditeur: SAGE Publications

Smart-knife: Integrated Intelligence for Robotic Meat Cutting

Auteurs: Alex Mason, Olga Korostynska, Luis Eduardo Cordova-Lopez, Dmytro Romanov
Publié dans: IEEE Sensors Journal, Numéro Volume 22, Numéro 21, 2022, Page(s) 20475-20483, ISSN 1530-437X
Éditeur: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/jsen.2022.3208667

3D Model Based Adaptive Cutiing System for the Meat Factory Cell: Overcoming Natural Variability

Auteurs: Ian Esper, Luis Eduardo Cordova-Lopez, Dmytro Romanov, Per Håkon Bjørnstad, Ole Alvseike, Lars. E. Gangsei, Alex mason
Publié dans: Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Numéro - Under Review -, 2023, ISSN 0921-8890
Éditeur: Elsevier BV

Meat safety legislation and its opportunities and hurdles for innovative approaches: A review

Auteurs: Meat safety legislation and its opportunities and hurdles for innovative approaches: A review
Publié dans: Food Control, Numéro Volume 141, 2022, Page(s) 109160, ISSN 0956-7135
Éditeur: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodcont.2022.109160

Smart knife: Technological Advances Towards Smart Cutting Tools in Meat Industry Automation

Auteurs: Alex Mason, Dmytro Romanov, Luis Eduardo Cordova-Lopez, Steven Ross, Olga Korostynska
Publié dans: Sensor Review, Numéro Volume 42, Numéro 1, 2022, Page(s) 153-163, ISSN 0260-2288
Éditeur: Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1108/sr-09-2021-0315

Deep Learning Modelfor Automatic Limb Detection and Gripping in a Novel Meat Factory Cell

Auteurs: Maksym Manko, Oleh Smolkin, Dmytro Romanov, Ian Esper, Anton Popov, Ivan Sahumbaiev, Luis Eduardo Cordova -Lopez, Alex Mason
Publié dans: Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Numéro - Under Review -, 2023, ISSN 0921-8890
Éditeur: Elsevier BV

Evaluation of RGB-D Multi-Camera Pose Estimation for 3D Reconstruction

Auteurs: Ian de Medeiros Esper; Oleh Smolkin; Maksym Manko; Anton Popov; Pål Johan From; Alex Mason
Publié dans: Applied Sciences, Numéro Volume 12; Numéro 9, 2022, Page(s) 4134, ISSN 2076-3417
Éditeur: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/app12094134

Robotisation and intelligent systems in abattoirs

Auteurs: Ian de Medeiros Esper, Pål J. From, Alex Mason
Publié dans: Trends in Food Science & Technology, Numéro 108, 2021, Page(s) 214-222, ISSN 0924-2244
Éditeur: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.tifs.2020.11.005

Towards human-robot collaboration in meat processing: Challenges and possibilities

Auteurs: Dmytro Romanov, Olga Korostynska, Odd Ivar Lekang, Alex Mason
Publié dans: Journal of Food Engineering, Numéro Volume 331, 2022, Page(s) 111117, ISSN 0260-8774
Éditeur: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfoodeng.2022.111117

Intact gastro-intestinal tract removal from pig carcasses in a novel Meat Factory Cell approach

Auteurs: Ole Alvseike, Miguel Prieto, Per Håkon Bjørnstad, Alex Mason
Publié dans: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica, Numéro 62/1, 2020, ISSN 1751-0147
Éditeur: BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s13028-020-00546-y

Quality assessment of fresh meat cuts as a performance indicator of knives specifically adapted for robot-assisted operations

Auteurs: Helle Røer, Olga Korostynska, Frøydis Bjerke, Dmytro Romanov, Luis Eduardo Cordova-Lopez, Alex Mason, Per Håkon Bjørnstad, Torunn Thauland Håseth, Ole Alvseike
Publié dans: Management Science Letters, Numéro Volume 13, 2023, Page(s) 108-117, ISSN 1923-9335
Éditeur: GrowingScience
DOI: 10.5267/j.msl.2023.1.001

Social performance and impact assessment of an autonomous system in the meat processing sector

Auteurs: Clara Valente, Rannvá Danielsen, Anna Woodhouse, Fredrik Moltu Johnsen, Ellen-Marie Forsberg
Publié dans: International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, Numéro - Under Review -, 2023, ISSN 0948-3349
Éditeur: Springer Verlag

Pigs: A stepwise RGB-D novel pig carcass cutting dataset

Auteurs: Ian de Medeiros Esper; Luiz Eduardo Cordova-Lopez; Dmytro Romanov; Ole Alvseike; Pål Johan From; Alex Mason
Publié dans: Data in Brief, Numéro 41, 2022, Page(s) 107945, ISSN 2352-3409
Éditeur: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2022.107945

Current Safety Legislation of Food Processing Smart Robot Systems - The Red Meat Sector

Auteurs: Kristóf Takacs, Alex Mason, Luis Eduardo Cordova-Lopez, Marta Alexy, Peter Galambos, Tamás Haidegger
Publié dans: Acta Polytechnica Hungarica, Numéro Volume 19; Numéro 11, 2022, Page(s) 249-267, ISSN 1785-8860
Éditeur: Obuda University
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2304.14014

A review of unilateral grippers for meat industry automation

Auteurs: Ross, Steven; Korostynska, Olga; Cordova-Lopez, Luis Eduardo; Mason, Alex
Publié dans: Trends in Food Science & Technology, Numéro Volume 119, 2022, Page(s) 309-319, ISSN 0924-2244
Éditeur: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.tifs.2021.12.017

Vision-Based Approaches for Cutting Food Products with Robots

Auteurs: Abhaya Singh, Ekrem Misimi, Alex Mason
Publié dans: Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Numéro - Under Review -, 2023, ISSN 0921-8890
Éditeur: Elsevier BV

Other (7)

Proceedings of the Challenges in Automated Food Processing workshop at the European Robotics Forum (ERF2021)

Auteurs: Tamas Haidegger Alex Mason Steven Ross Kristof Takacs
Publié dans: European Robotics Forum 2021, Numéro April 13 to April 15, 2021, 2021, ISBN 978-963-449-242-9
Éditeur: Óbudai Egyetem

Opportunities and challenges for an automated, cell-based slaughtering-and-deboning of a pig carcass:time for a paradigm shift in meat processing

Auteurs: Tomas Bolumar, Vaclav Pohunek, Ian Esper, Luis Eduardo Cordova-Lopez, Helle Røer, Alex Mason, Ole Alvseike
Publié dans: ICoMST 2022, Numéro August 22 to August 25, 2022, 2022
Éditeur: Elsevier BV

AI assisted cobot potential for meat cutting procedures

Auteurs: Jon Raunkjær Søndergaard, Lars Bager Christensen
Publié dans: ICoMST 2022, Numéro August 22 to August 25, 2022, 2022
Éditeur: Elsevier BV

Time for change: The case of robotic food processing

Auteurs: Alex Mason, Tamás Haidegger, Ole Alvseike
Publié dans: IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, Numéro Volume 30; Numéro 2, 2023, Page(s) 116-122
Éditeur: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/mra.2023.3266932

Like muligheter i slakteribransjen (Equal opportunities at slaughterhouse)

Auteurs: Kjersti Prestrud, Clara Valente
Publié dans: Mat og Marked, Numéro June 2022, 2022
Éditeur: Dagens Perspektiv

Fremtidens slagteri er styret af kunstig intelligens

Auteurs: Lars Bager Christensen
Publié dans: HYO, 2021, Page(s) 16-19
Éditeur: FBG Medier

Pigs: A stepwise RGB-D novel pig carcass cutting dataset

Auteurs: Ian de Medeiros Esper, Luis Eduardo Cordova-Lopez, Dmytro Romanov, Ole Alvseike, Pål Johan From, Alex Mason
Publié dans: DataverseNO, 2022
Éditeur: DataverseNO
DOI: 10.18710/gdghzr

Book chapters (1)

Vibration Measurement as Feedback from Pneumatic Knife

Auteurs: Dmytro Romanov, Luis Eduardo Cordova-Lopez, Alex Mason
Publié dans: Sensing Technology, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Numéro 886, 2022, Page(s) 177-189, ISSN 1876-1119
Éditeur: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-98886-9_14

Monographic books (1)

Advanced Sensors for Real-Time Monitoring Applications

Auteurs: Olga Korostynska & Alex Mason (Eds.)
Publié dans: 2021, ISBN 978-3-0365-0427-8
Éditeur: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/books978-3-0365-0427-8