SWARMITFIX
Self reconfigurable intelligent swarm fixtures
| Coordinatore | UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI GENOVA
Organization address
address: VIA BALBI 5 contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | Italy [IT] |
| Sito del progetto | http://www.swarmitfix.eu |
| Totale costo | 3˙695˙367 € |
| EC contributo | 2˙649˙045 € |
| Programma | FP7-NMP
Specific Programme "Cooperation": Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies |
| Code Call | FP7-NMP-2007-SMALL-1 |
| Funding Scheme | CP-FP |
| Anno di inizio | 2008 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2008-10-01 - 2012-01-31 |
Partecipanti
| # | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI GENOVA
Organization address
address: VIA BALBI 5 contact info |
IT (GENOVA) | coordinator | 0.00 |
| 2 |
CENTRO RICERCHE FIAT SCPA
Organization address
address: Strada Torino 50 contact info |
IT (ORBASSANO) | participant | 0.00 |
| 3 |
Exechon AB
Organization address
address: ORRVAGEN 26 A1 contact info |
SE (SOLLENTUNA) | participant | 0.00 |
| 4 |
PIAGGIO AERO INDUSTRIES SPA
Organization address
address: Viale Castro Pretorio 116 contact info |
IT (ROMA) | participant | 0.00 |
| 5 |
POLITECHNIKA WARSZAWSKA
Organization address
address: PLAC POLITECHNIKI 1 contact info |
PL (WARSZAWA) | participant | 0.00 |
| 6 |
ZTS VYSKUMNO-VYVOJOVY USTAV KOSICE AS
Organization address
address: JUZNA TRIEDA 95 contact info |
SK (KOSICE) | participant | 0.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'A step beyond flexible/reconfigurable fixtures for higher continuous adaptation of production resources respect to production objectives and technical conditions in the knowledge-based factory is achievable today by synergic convergence of the NMP themes of flexible fixtures, parallel robots and new/smart materials with the ICT themes of robot swarms with networked embedded control. Today’s smartest adaptable fixtures have limited adjustment capability, are mostly operated manually, are usually setup off-line with help of external measuring equipment, e.g. laser. Significant increase in effectiveness and decrease in cost may come from on-line fully actuated configuration/reconfiguration, large adaptability to different shapes and the capability to dynamically concentrate the support in the region where manufacturing is actually performed, doing that on-line and without moving/removing the part from the fixture. We propose the new concept of self adaptable swarm fixtures composed of mobile agents that can freely move on a bench and reposition below the supported part behaving as a swarm, all without moving/removing the part from the fixture. Each fixture agent is composed of: *A mobile platform, *a parallel robot fixed to the mobile platform, *an adaptable head with phase-change fluid and an adhesion arrangement, to sustain/clamp the supported part perfectly adapting to the part local geometry. A hybrid control system is adopted and each robot is treated as an autonomous agent exhibiting its own behaviours. Behaviour based translocation of the robots to destination positions is adopted to reduce planner complexity, with *no need to plan exact trajectories and *no significant increase in complexity when extra units are removed/added. The area of manufacturing of thin metal sheets is considered (aircrafts and automotive bodies). The project objective is to develop a swarm fixture for a large range of sheet shapes to fully replace the specialized fixtures today used.'
Introduzione (Teaser)
Researchers have developed a new concept for manufacturing units able to set and readjust themselves automatically for shaping thin metal sheets. The innovative system uses groups of mobile platforms with attached robots that are able to work together.