Description du projet
Des robots d’usine intelligents qui accomplissent les tâches complexes
L’usine du futur sera entièrement automatisée. À l’heure actuelle, la robotique n’est pas encore en mesure de remplacer tous les types de tâches manuelles, en particulier les plus difficiles qui impliquent la manipulation de matériaux et d’objets complexes. Or le déploiement de robots pour effectuer ces tâches est indispensable si l’Europe veut concurrencer les pays disposant d’une main-d’œuvre importante. Le projet REMODEL, financé par l’UE, contribuera à la mise en place de nouveaux environnements de production pour la fabrication de produits comportant de nombreux fils et câbles. Il permettra en effet d’intégrer un robot à double bras dans la chaîne de production pour le routage et l’ajustement avec des techniques avancées. Pour cela, il utilisera les outils développés par l’ancien projet WIRES afin de résoudre les problèmes de manipulation des fils électriques, ainsi que pour ajouter de nouvelles fonctions de perception et d’interaction. L’efficacité de son système sera testée dans quatre cas industriels.
Objectif
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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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinateur
40126 Bologna
Italie