Objective
Maritime industries are of crucial importance in the economic life of European nations. Nevertheless, a significant part of European maritime industries, namely the shipbuilding as well as many other capital goods heavy industries are in a difficult position in what concerns their competitiveness. Heavy industry in Europe has had to reduce both labour force and capacity. In order to remain viable and reverse this tendency, it must move from labour intensive to technology intensive processes. To this end, heavy assembly and handling operations constitute a bottleneck. Introduction of supervisory control schemes and autonomy in low-level task execution is a key issue that remains to be addressed. The best way to do so is by transferring and adapting robotics and tele-operation technologies already present in high tech applications such as deep-sea and space exploration, military, etc. The objective of the ROBMAR thematic network is that of enhancing the collaboration between various actors in these fields. The purpose is threefold: - Co-ordination of the performed R&D in the frame of the on-going BRITE projects in order to avoid duplicate work; - Exchange information on the robotic & handling technologies in shipbuilding and other maritime applications in order to generate new synergies and ideas; - Transfer of technologies from the technology intensive (i.e. offshore, deep-sea etc.) to the labour intensive areas (shipbuilding, vessel inspection etc.) of the maritime industry. For that purpose, a light and efficient network structure is proposed. Information exchange between the projects is foreseen mainly through regular progress reporting meetings. The participation of all the partners in selected meetings of each individual project will be also envisaged. Finally, at least two specialized workshops will be organised. ROBMAR will maintain active links with other thematic like CEPS (Competitive Engineering & Production in Shipbuilding - IMT network) and the ICIMS NoE (Intelligent Control and Integrated Manufacturing Systems - ESPRIT network). The proposed scientific co-ordinator (JRC-ISIS) already maintains links with both of these networks.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.
- natural sciencesphysical sciencesastronomyspace exploration
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringrobotics
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringnaval engineeringsea vessels
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30124 VENEZIA
Italy