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Multipurpose robotics for Manipulation of deformable materiaLs in manufacturing processes

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The APRIL project is working on a new generation of robots for handling flexible materials

APRIL project aims at implementing and deploying market oriented, low cost and multipurpose robots that supports semiautomatic tasks in manufacturing production lines that use flexible or deformable materials in industries of any size or domain.

APRIL will use fine grasping, innovative computational vision technology, gathering of sensors’ information, as well the development of modular and different middleware layers and interfaces. APRIL will provide innovative sensoring and computational vision supporting detection of slips, estimate weight, dynamic center of mass, or regulating grasping forces while manipulating deformable objects of different types (e.g. paper, chicken breast, shoes’ insoles, viscoelastic textile materials, cables, etc.). A federated approach, wireless communication, usage of multipurpose hands and placement of various sensors, will connect all robots to a cloud based knowledge base that will contain the needed information to perform the different jobs.

ObjeCtivE

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The APRIL project aims at prototyping low cost and agile market oriented multipurpose, and easy to repurpose, autonomous dexterous robots; which will manipulate, assemble or process different soft and flexible products/materials in a production line environment.

eXPECTED RESULTS

APRIL system will be deployed in six different demonstration use cases across Europe. Robots integrated in the manufacturing processes will operate on several critical steps that affect production, packing and quality assurance on the different manufacturers involved as pilot sites.

On one hand, introduction of APRIL system will produce an expected increase on safety and related health conditions of working environments. On the other hand, APRIL will enable an increase on productivity and quality of the final products; thus leading to a greater competitiveness of European industry.

The project will be implemented in 40 months by 15 partners from 8 European countries.

Visit the APRIL project website

PARTNERS

PolitecnicaINESCOP CENTRO ENShandowPrensillaDFKITreeKontor 46IITAsincarINCMOsaipemuSanta AnaSilverstonetukasiewicz

 

 

FINANCIACIÓN

UE banderaThis project is supported by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 framework programme for Research and Innovation. Grant Agreement number 870142.