Development of an automatic grabbing system for logs

Project Information

Grant agreement ID: BRST970575

Project closed

Start date 1 October 1997

End date 1 April 1998

Funded under

• Specific research and technological development programme in the field of industrial and materials technologies, 1994-1998

Total cost No data

EU contribution No data

Coordinated by

Holzwerke Harz Gmbh & CO. Holzindustrie
Germany

Objective

The technical objective of this research and development proposal is the introduction the automatic handling of wood logs in some areas of the wood processing industry. Robot techniques will be combined with distributed process control. Different types of wood and different geometries of natural logs are examined in order to optimise piling and moving.

Fields of science

CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.

• engineering and technology › materials engineering › woodworking
• natural sciences › mathematics › pure mathematics › geometry
• agricultural sciences › agriculture, forestry, and fisheries › forestry

Programme(s)

• FP4-BRITE/EURAM 3 - Specific research and technological development programme in the field of industrial and materials technologies, 1994-1998

Topic(s)

• 0101 - Incorporation of new technologies into production systems

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

EAW - Exploratory awards

Coordinator

Holzwerke Harz Gmbh & CO. Holzindustrie

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: 10,Forstweg ; 38871 DrÜbeck ; Germany
• Total cost: No data

Participants (1)

Moreno Pujal Sl

Spain

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: 22-24,Ctra. Manresa ; 25280 Solsona
• Total cost: No data