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Robotic tEchnologies for the Manipulation of cOmplex DeformablE Linear objects

Project information

Grant agreement ID: 870133

Status

Ongoing project

  • Start date

    1 November 2019

  • End date

    31 October 2023

Funded under:

H2020-EU.2.1.5.1.

  • Overall budget:

    € 5 920 412,50

  • EU contribution

    € 5 920 412,50

Coordinated by:

ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA

Italy

Objective

REMODEL will enable new production environments, where the manufacturing of complex products composed of multiple wires and cables by means of dual-arm robots is not only possible, but fully integrated with the product design chain. This result will be achieved by exploiting the result of a previous project called WIRES, were basic tools for the manipulation of electric wires have been developed. Moreover, new perception and interaction capabilities will be embedded into the robot to be effective in the industrial manufacturing scenario.
REMODEL will bring new opportunities to human-intensive labor manufacturing processes like the one dealing with cables and wires, where the routing and fitting tasks are calling for advanced handling techniques. The REMODEL robotic ability will impact several production scenarios in which human work is widely adopted due to the complexity in the objects, materials and manipulation tasks, characterized unpredictable initial configuration as well as large deformability and plasticity. Activities involving mass production, such as wiring harness manufacturing for automotive and appliances, are moving outside Europe due to the high labour cost and to the repetitiveness of the tasks that produces high psychophysical stress in the workers. In other cases, such as the switchgear wiring and the wiring harness manufacturing for the aerospace sector, the need of increasing production flexibility, reliability and traceability of the product as well as reduce costs and time to market implies the adoption of innovative tools to maintain proper competitiveness and answer the market requests.
To proof the effectiveness of the REMODEL outcomes, four industrial manufacturing use cases provided by the industrial partners and covering five different domains, i.e. the production and assembly of wiring harnesses in the automotive and the aerospace field, the switchgear wiring and the manufacturing of medical consumables, will be developed.

Field of Science

commerce

perception

Programme(s)

H2020-EU.2.1.5.1. - Technologies for Factories of the Future

Topic(s)

DT-FOF-12-2019 - Handling systems for flexible materials (RIA)

Call for proposal

H2020-NMBP-FOF-2019

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Funding Scheme

RIA - Research and Innovation action
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Coordinator

ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA

Address

Via Zamboni 33
40126 Bologna

Italy

Activity type

Higher or Secondary Education Establishments

EU Contribution

€ 812 810

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Participants (10)

UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DELLA CAMPANIA LUIGI VANVITELLI

Italy

EU Contribution

€ 505 000

I.E.M.A. SRL

Italy

EU Contribution

€ 686 515

FUNDACION TECNALIA RESEARCH & INNOVATION

Spain

EU Contribution

€ 573 500

ELIMCO AEROSPACE SL

Spain

EU Contribution

€ 386 840

TAMPEREEN KORKEAKOULUSAATIO SR

Finland

EU Contribution

€ 549 730

TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN

Germany

EU Contribution

€ 768 500

POLITECHNIKA POZNANSKA

Poland

EU Contribution

€ 743 120

ELVEZ, PROIZVODNJA KABELSKE KONFEKCIJE IN PREDELAVA PLASTICNIH MAS DOO

Slovenia

EU Contribution

€ 512 062,50

VOLKSWAGEN POZNAN SP Z O.O.

Poland

EU Contribution

€ 287 710

EXTRUDAN SP Z O O

Poland

EU Contribution

€ 94 625

Project information

Grant agreement ID: 870133

Status

Ongoing project

  • Start date

    1 November 2019

  • End date

    31 October 2023

Funded under:

H2020-EU.2.1.5.1.

  • Overall budget:

    € 5 920 412,50

  • EU contribution

    € 5 920 412,50

Coordinated by:

ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA

Italy

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Last update: 14 October 2019

Record number: 225516