Descrizione del progetto
Robot di fabbriche intelligenti gestiscono compiti complessi
Le fabbriche del futuro saranno completamente automatizzate. Al momento, la robotica non ha ancora sostituito tutti i tipi di lavoro manuale, compiti particolarmente complicati che comportano la manipolazione di materiali e oggetti complessi. L’impiego di robot per lo svolgimento di questi compiti è necessario per garantire che l’Europa possa competere con i paesi che dispongono di una grande forza lavoro. Il progetto REMODEL, finanziato dall’UE, supporta nuovi ambienti di produzione per la fabbricazione di prodotti con fili e cavi estesi. Esso integra un robot a doppio braccio nella linea di produzione per l’avviamento e il montaggio con tecniche avanzate. Utilizzerà gli strumenti del precedente progetto WIRES per risolvere i problemi di manipolazione del filo elettrico, oltre ad aggiungere nuove funzioni di percezione e interazione. La sua efficacia sarà collaudata in quattro casi industriali.
Obiettivo
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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H2020-NMBP-FOF-2019
Meccanismo di finanziamento
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinatore
40126 Bologna
Italia