Human-Robot Interaction

Teleoperation of robots
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Despite the increasing level of implantable intelligence in the robot, there are situations in which human intervention is necessary to supervise the task being carried out by the robot or even to guide it remotely.

Detection and localisation of parts by vision for robot guidance
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Provision of robotic systems with optical capabilities so that they are able to flexibly modify their approach and guidance trajectories, adapting to the context conditions.

Preparation of orders
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Robot prototypes of proofs of concept of solutions linked to logistics operations e.g. containerisation, product sorting, returns management. The operations involve product recognition, product handling and its placement in containers or order boxes.

Palletising/de-palletising
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Robot prototypes of proofs of concept of solutions linked to pallet logistics operations such as palletising or depalletising. The operations involve the recognition of products on pallets in both single-reference and multi-reference configurations, their handling

Dual-arm coordinated motion
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Coordinated and online programming of the trajectory of the arms of a dual-arm robot considering the information received from external perception systems that provide real-time information on external restrictions that condition its movement and taking

Automatic or easy programming of robotic cells
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Starting from a digitalised work environment in which CAD models are available, an operator, with no specific training in robot programming can enter information about the operations to be carried out, that are interpreted by

Human-Robot Interaction, Safe Environment Monitoring and Collaborative Robotics
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Establishing communication between people and robots to carry out tasks in collaboration, both verbal and gestural, establishing the necessary safety measures and regulations in an environment in which both people and robots move.

Automatic generation of collision-free trajectories
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This service has two strategies: the static one referring to programming the trajectory after perceiving the environment and, based on the information captured on position of the displacement, being able to identify the most optimal

Proof-of-concept for technology providers
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Support to Hardware/Software technologies development and validation through integration support and testing (interoperability, connectivity, compatibility) in the execution of pre-defined manufacturing-related tasks.

Onsite experimentation services for manufacturing adopters
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Validation and benchmarking of Hardware & Software technologies as well as innovative tools at semi-industrial scale (reliability, performance, robustness) through the experimentation of the mobile robot solutions in the execution of planned manufacturing tasks.

Proof-of-concept for technology providers
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Support to Hardware/Software technologies development and validation through integration support and testing (interoperability, connectivity, compatibility) in the use of industrial robots (including exoskeletons) in the field of manufacturing.

Onsite experimentation services for manufacturing adopters
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Validation and benchmarking of Hardware & Software technologies as well as innovative tools at semi-industrial scale (reliability, performance, robustness) through the experimentation in the use of industrial robots (including exoskeletons) in the field of manufacturing.

Metal AM (LMD, WAAM) robotised process for tech. providers technologies testing and validation
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Support to Hardware/Software technologies development and validation through integration support and testing (interoperability, connectivity, compatibility) in the execution of pre-defined manufacturing-related tasks.

Metal AM (LMD, WAAM)and polymeric/composite AM (FFF, AFP) robotised processes for onsite experimentation services
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Validation and benchmarking of Hardware & Software technologies as well as innovative tools at semi-industrial scale (reliability, performance, robustness).

Evaluation of control systems for a cobot in terms of trajectory execution precision and collision avoidance
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Characterization of the performance of the cobot control system through test batteries and measurements to evaluate trajectory precision and collision avoidance against predefined objective indicators. The result will be a technical report describing the conducted

Characterization of advanced algorithms for autonomous navigation – SLAM 2D-3D. Characterization of trajectories and performance evaluation of autonomous navigation systems
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Evaluation of the performance offered by different advanced algorithms for autonomous navigation. through test batteries and measurements to assess their behavior against predefined objective indicators. Two possibilities are considered: – the use of real machines

Evaluation of alternative, complementary or improved autonomous navigation strategies for specific use cases – SLAM 2D-3D
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Evaluation of customer’s autonomous navigation strategies against different use cases. Analysis of performance. Proposal and initial evaluation of alternative, complementary or improved solutions to maximice the capabilities and perfomance of the proposed solution in objective

AI for process optimization with collaborative robot
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AI-base solution able to: 1) correct surface detection 2) Autonomous trajectory generation 3) Self-identification of defects on machining activities
Validation of Machine Translation solutions for industrial applications
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Validated machine/speech translation solutions.
Testing of translation solutions for industrial applications
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Test report with detailed system performance under different scenarios and eventual insights on ways to improve performance
Intuitive robot programming
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This service is dedicated to the testing and experimenetation with AI tools enabling intuitive and ad hoc robot programming. A diverse set of collaborative robotic cells, including low payload, high payload, and mobile robots, offer

Identify relevant Tests, Experiments, and key partners towards enabling or prooving maturity of AI solutions for integration and deployment
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The service must enable the company to initiate further test or experimentation services
Use the digital twin of an operator to improve workstation ergonomics
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Provide recommandations to optimize the workstation ergonomics
Testing of Virtual Reality (VR) technology to learn technical gesture
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Demonstrate the benefits of VR technology to learn gesture and apply it to robotic systems
Testing Natural Language Processing
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Verify that the technology meets the requirements in manufacturing context
Experiment AMR in specific environment
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Evaluate mobile robot capacities on industrial use-cases
Testing of intelligent robot calibration methods
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Demonstrate the benefit of the technology
Test of intelligent grasping – object recognition and manipulation
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Demonstrate capabilities of intelligent grapsing technology on specified use cases
Experiment teleoperation systems
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Evaluate the performance of teleoperation system in industrial context
Position measurement and tracking system
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High-frequency and high-accuracy measurements can help to understand flexibibity/modeshapes of flexible products, or help to understand dynamic behaviour of products in a pile or on a moving conveyor belt.

Robot learning by demonstration
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To minimize time spent in programming how to perform a task, the user can teach the robot by demonstration. This can be done by first stearing the robot by hand, while monitoring its state. Eventually

Single and dual arm cobot testbed
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Experiment with one or two Panda cobots to investigate if they can add value in the production line. A single arm could be utilized for product singulation, e.g. in a bin- or heap picking task.

Experimenting with human robot interaction
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Demonstrator
Identification of the position and location and picking up of the unsorted parts
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Demonstrate that the existing technology can be leveraged (adapted) to be used for different objects
Spot
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Demonstration.
Cobot-pilot
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Demonstration.
Proofing of AI implemented in robotic cell operations
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- Validation of system performance, - highlighting weakness and suggesting possible improvement
Mobile robots, UGV, UAV experimentation and development support
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1) proved applications of AI in mobile robots 2) verified safety of robots in human-robot cooperation 3) verified performance and reliability of human-robot cooperation systems