Objective
Objective of the project is the development of advanced automation technologies in a traditionally small and middle sized structured sector of the concrete industry: the industrial preproduction and precasting of the elements for concrete buildings (such as walls and roof plates). The following main steps of production in a precasting factory will be improved: (1) Optimisation of the robot control and gripper for setting the form and shuttering of the precast parts. (2) Improving quality and speed of the production of wire mesh as reinforcing steel. (3) Improving the quality of distributing the concrete into the form. (4) Introduction of new optimisation tools into the central production control computer. The project is scheduled over 20 months. In this time practical usable solutions will be developed by integrating modern control and planning methods like fuzzy logic genetic algorithms and evolutionary strategies into the four production steps mentioned above. Practical test and optimisation will be done in the production lines of the partners. The improvement of production will result in a substantial reduction of production costs, production time and material needed. Furthermore high amounts of wood and polystyrene wastes will be completely saved. Working conditions will be improved, because hard, dirty and monotonous labour will be replaced by automatic systems.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- social sciences sociology industrial relations automation
- engineering and technology materials engineering amorphous solids organic amorphous solids
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries forestry
- natural sciences computer and information sciences artificial intelligence computational intelligence
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Coordinator
2280 Grobbendonk
Belgium
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