LOCOBOT

Toolkit for building low cost robot co-workers in assembly lines

 Coordinatore PROFACTOR GMBH 

 Organization address address: IM STADTGUT A2
city: STEYR-GLEINK
postcode: 4407

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Dieter
Cognome: Brandecker
Email: send email
Telefono: +43 7252 885 114
Fax: +43 7252 885 101

 Nazionalità Coordinatore Austria [AT]
 Sito del progetto http://www.locobot.eu
 Totale costo 5˙323˙426 €
 EC contributo 3˙740˙000 €
 Programma FP7-NMP
Specific Programme "Cooperation": Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies
 Code Call FP7-2010-NMP-ICT-FoF
 Funding Scheme CP
 Anno di inizio 2010
 Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) 2010-08-01   -   2013-07-31

 Partecipanti

# participant  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    PROFACTOR GMBH

 Organization address address: IM STADTGUT A2
city: STEYR-GLEINK
postcode: 4407

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Dieter
Cognome: Brandecker
Email: send email
Telefono: +43 7252 885 114
Fax: +43 7252 885 101

AT (STEYR-GLEINK) coordinator 781˙380.20
2    FERROBOTICS COMPLIANT ROBOT TECHNOLOGY GMBH

 Organization address address: ALTENBERGERSTRASSE 69
city: LINZ
postcode: 4040

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Paolo
Cognome: Ferrara
Email: send email
Telefono: +43 660 5636982
Fax: +43 660 5636982

AT (LINZ) participant 469˙171.00
3    HOCHSCHULE FUR ANGEWANDTE WISSENSCHAFTEN FHINGOLSTADT - FACHHOCHSCHULE INGOLSTADT

 Organization address address: ESPLANADE 10
city: INGOLSTADT
postcode: 85049

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Johann
Cognome: Schweiger
Email: send email
Telefono: 49

DE (INGOLSTADT) participant 401˙117.00
4    POLITECNICO DI MILANO

 Organization address address: PIAZZA LEONARDO DA VINCI 32
city: MILANO
postcode: 20133

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Anna
Cognome: Desantis
Email: send email
Telefono: +39 0223998241
Fax: +39 02 2399 8202

IT (MILANO) participant 373˙897.00
5    AUDI AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT

 Organization address address: -
city: INGOLSTADT
postcode: 85045

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Jens
Cognome: Bunte
Email: send email
Telefono: +49 841 89 30440
Fax: +49 7132 31 8473251

DE (INGOLSTADT) participant 363˙787.00
6    HERIOT-WATT UNIVERSITY

 Organization address address: Riccarton
city: EDINBURGH
postcode: EH14 4AS

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Eva
Cognome: Olszewska-Day
Email: send email
Telefono: +44 131 4513073
Fax: +44 131 4513193

UK (EDINBURGH) participant 300˙000.80
7    THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH

 Organization address address: OLD COLLEGE, SOUTH BRIDGE
city: EDINBURGH
postcode: EH8 9YL

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Helen
Cognome: New
Email: send email
Telefono: 441317000000
Fax: 441317000000

UK (EDINBURGH) participant 299˙748.00
8    RIDGEBACK S.A.S. DI PAOLO BARATTINI & C.

 Organization address address: VIA SAN FRANCESCO DA PAOLA 6
city: TORINO
postcode: 10123

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Paolo
Cognome: Barattini
Email: send email
Telefono: 390173000000
Fax: 390173000000

IT (TORINO) participant 257˙249.00
9    FESTO AG & CO KG

 Organization address address: RUITER STRASSE 82
city: ESSLINGEN
postcode: 73734

contact info
Nome: Andreas
Cognome: Muenzenmaier
Email: send email
Telefono: +49 711 347 2871
Fax: +49 711 347 542871

DE (ESSLINGEN) participant 249˙500.00
10    VISUAL COMPONENTS OY

 Organization address city: Helsinki
postcode: 300

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Ricardo
Cognome: Velez
Email: send email
Telefono: +3589252 40800
Fax: +358 9 252 40805

FI (Helsinki) participant 244˙150.00

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automotive    locobot    industrial    building    robot    structure    drives    manual    robotic    setting    years    industry    quickly    robots    assistant    vehicle    group   

 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The European automotive industry and their component manufacturers are facing the biggest shift in their history. The transition from combustion engines to electric drives (e-vehicle) requires pro-duction facilities that can initially deal with low and varying production volumes and can quickly be up-scaled to large numbers at need. LOCOBOT provides a solution to this problem by developing a flexible robotic assistant platform to support manual production processes and increase the produc-tivity and precision of such tasks. LOCOBOT does not only include the robot itself but also the en-gineering tools that are required for quickly building the robot, setting up its control structure and defining its tasks. Facing the demographic change, a further goal of LOCOBOT is the improvement of ergonomics in industrial production processes. A group of key players in the automotive industry, in automation components, advanced robots and engineering software will be supported by a group of excellent researchers to solve the technical and scientific challenges in LOCOBOT. The results will be demonstrated by setting up 3 typical and highly relevant use cases in a pilot production line of Audi AG. The automotive industry will benefit from LOCOBOT by having a robot assistant that can be quick-ly reconfigured in terms of its kinematic structure as well as its tasks. This allows them to make manual production processes much more efficient, to quickly up-scale a production process if re-quired and to improve working conditions by reducing the need to lift heavy objects (such as wheel hub drives for the e-vehicle). This will enable the industry to achieve a leading position in the the e-vehicle market and to keep up with the expected customer demand. The immediate impact (2-5 years) of LOCOBOT will be about 150 MEur in savings due to increased flexibility and efficiency, and will be 10 times as much in the following years depending on how the production numbers of the e-vehicle evolve.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

Industrial robots are used worldwide to assist or even replace people performing repetitive, dangerous or tiring tasks. EU-funded researchers are building tailor-made, low-cost robotic co-workers to revolutionise production processes in the automotive sector.

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