Descripción del proyecto
Robots inteligentes en fábricas para realizar tareas complejas
La fábrica del futuro estará totalmente automatizada. Por ahora, la robótica aún no ha reemplazado todos los trabajos manuales, algo que es especialmente importante en el caso de tareas en las que se manipulan materiales y objetos complejos. El uso de robots para estas operaciones es esencial para garantizar que Europa vaya a poder competir con países que cuentan con una enorme mano de obra. El proyecto REMODEL, financiado con fondos europeos, está fomentando el uso de nuevos entornos de producción para la fabricación de productos con cables largos. Los investigadores han integrado un robot de dos brazos en la línea de fabricación para el ajuste y el ranurado con técnicas avanzadas, y utilizarán las herramientas de un proyecto anterior (WIRES) para resolver problemas en la manipulación de cables eléctricos, así como añadir nuevas funciones de interacción y percepción. Se probará la eficacia de estos sistemas en cuatro modelos industriales.
Objetivo
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.
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Convocatoria de propuestas
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H2020-NMBP-FOF-2019
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinador
40126 Bologna
Italia