Description du projet
Des robots collaboratifs intelligents prêtent main forte
Le bras puissant et automatisé d’un robot peut souder, peindre et assembler. Si les robots industriels et de service sont monnaie courante, ces machines travaillent toutefois à distance des humains. La robotique collaborative place les robots et les travailleurs humains côte à côte. Le projet SOPHIA, financé par l’UE, va développer une nouvelle génération de systèmes humains-robots socialement coopératifs dans le cadre d’une production agile. Les objectifs sont de parvenir à une production reconfigurable et économe en ressources et d’améliorer l’ergonomie humaine et la confiance en l’automatisation, dans des environnements de fabrication hybrides homme-robot. Les systèmes SOPHIA seront construits sur la base de processus de travail humains soutenus par des outils d’aide à la décision, des robots d’assistance et interactifs, et une automatisation intelligente et auto-adaptative du lieu de travail. SOPHIA se concentrera principalement sur la normalisation de ses technologies de pointe au niveau européen. Ces facilitateurs contribueront à stimuler la compétitivité de l’industrie manufacturière européenne et à réduire les troubles musculo-squelettiques, qui sont les problèmes de santé liés au travail les plus courants en Europe.
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Collaborative robotics has established itself as a major force in pushing forward highly adaptive and flexible production paradigms in European large and small-medium enterprises. It is contributing to the sustainability and enhancement of Europe’s efficient and competitive manufacturing, to reshoring production, and to economic growth. However, still today the potential of collaborative technologies is largely underexploited. Indeed, collaborative robots are most often designed to coexist and to safely share a working space with humans. They are rarely thought to enter in direct socio-physical contact with humans to perceive, understand, and react to their distress or needs, and to enable them to work more productively and efficiently through better ergonomics.
SOPHIA responds to this need by developing a new generation of socially cooperative human-robot systems in agile production. Its modular core technologies will enable dynamic state monitoring of the human-robot pair and anticipatory robot behaviours to: (1) improve human ergonomics, trust in automation, and productivity in manufacturing environments, and (2) achieve a reconfigurable, flexible, and resource-efficient production. By advancing the decisional autonomy and interaction ability of its innovative collaborative systems, SOPHIA will contribute to the reduction of work-related musculoskeletal disorders, the single largest category of work-related injuries and responsible for 30% of all workers’ compensation costs. SOPHIA’s societal relevance and the research groups’ experience in acceptability and standardization aspects of its core technologies will ensure their comfort-of-use by industrial workers, and the underlying design compliance to standards, thus strengthening the competitiveness in European manufacturing. We will illustrate and verify SOPHIA usability through the exploration of three real-world use-cases encouraging potential customers to integrate our core technologies in their workflow.
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinateur
16163 Genova
Italie