Description du projet
La dextérité humaine des robots est à portée de main
Donner à un robot le «toucher humain» prend un tout nouveau sens grâce aux récentes avancées technologiques. Le domaine de la robotique dans lequel plusieurs manipulateurs, ou doigts, coopèrent pour saisir et manipuler des objets est défini comme la manipulation habile. La mise en œuvre de technologies robotiques d’une grande dextérité est essentielle dans les systèmes de fabrication de nouvelle génération, avec une production flexible et en petites séries. Le projet I.AM., financé par l’UE, tirera parti de la technologie des robots à contrôle de couple, qui peuvent résister à une interaction physique avec l’environnement, en se concentrant sur la manipulation logistique consciente des impacts. Pour amener les robots à un niveau de manipulation sans précédent, le projet intégrera cette nouvelle technologie dans les robots existants et accélérera son adoption ainsi que son déploiement.
Objectif
Europe is leading the market of torque-controlled robots. These robots can withstand physical interaction with the environment, including impacts, while providing accurate sensing and actuation capabilities. I.AM leverages this technology and strengthens European leadership by endowing robots to exploit intentional impacts for manipulation. I.AM focuses on impact aware manipulation in logistics, a new area of application for robotics which will grow exponentially in the coming years, due to socio-economical drivers such as booming of e-commerce and scarcity of labor.
I.AM relies on four scientific and technological research lines that will lead to breakthroughs in modeling, sensing, learning and control of fast impacts: 1) I.Model offers experimentally validated accurate impact models, embedded in a highly realistic simulator to predict post-impact robot states based on pre-impact conditions; 2) I.Learn provides advances in planning and learning for generating desired control parameters based on models of uncertainties inherent to impacts; 3) I.Sense develops an impact-aware sensing technology to robustly assess velocity, force, and robot contact state in close proximity of impact times, allowing to distinguish between expected and unexpected events; 4) I.Control generates a framework that, in conjunction with the realistic models, advanced planning, and sensing components, allows for robust execution of dynamic manipulation tasks.
This integrated paradigm, I.AM brings robots to an unprecedented level of manipulation abilities. By incorporating this new technology in existing robots, I.AM enables shorter cycle time (10%) for applications requiring dynamic manipulation in logistics. I.AM will speed up the take-up and deployment in this domain by validating its progress in three realistic scenarios: a bin-to-belt application demonstrating object tossing, a bin-to-bin application object fast boxing, and a case depalletizing scenario demonstrating object grabbing.
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinateur
5612 AE Eindhoven
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