Report

Teaser, summary, work performed and final results

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - VERSATILE (Innovative robotic applications for highly reconfigurable production lines - VERSATILE)

Teaser

The consortium of VERATILE project focused on maturing the main technological enablers that allow the reconfiguration of robotic cells as requested for the European industry. For this reason, all the developments in VERSATILE pilots will use a TRL review procedure. This is...

Summary

The consortium of VERATILE project focused on maturing the main technological enablers that allow the reconfiguration of robotic cells as requested for the European industry. For this reason, all the developments in VERSATILE pilots will use a TRL review procedure. This is based on the partners’ experience in developing applications for different industrial sectors in agreement with the end-users and integrators.
Activities done in the project are oriented to progress in one or more of the project objectives:
- Objective 1. Technology transfer & validation in automotive, aerospace and consumer goods sectors.
- Objective 2. Perception for Operation in Semi-Structured Environment
- Objective 3. Automatic programming tools for highly reconfigurable robot tasks
- Objective 4. Mobile Dual arm robots advanced manipulation capabilities
- Objective 5. Synchronization and control framework
Aligned with the work packages, all the technologies in WP2 will increase the flexibility of the robotic implementation and the versatility of assets and production lines (objectives 2 to 5) are now in testing in the intermediate demonstrators of the use cases (WP3 – Aeronautic use case (Rudder operations automation), WP4 – Automotive use case (Kitting operation) and WP5 – Consumer goods use case (Shavers assembly)).

Work performed

Main progress in M18 are the complete definition and customization of all assets in the demonstrators (intermediate and final), as well as the partial testing of the WP2 technologies in the pilots. TRL5 is in development with the integration of key hardware and relevant parts with the enable technologies.

Specific results to highlight are:

1. Transferring of dual-arm manipulation concepts from research to industrial dual arm robots with the objective to increase the features cover by robotic systems in processes that requires flexible robotics. Initial tests performed with T2.3 technologies in the intermediate demonstrators are showing the increased robotic capabilities in Motoman and dual-arm with UR10. Additionally, integration between Pick-it camera and COMAU Pick-app points towards a market functionality.

2. Increasing the vision systems features New features not covered by current commercial systems are in the final phases of implementation. Vision pipeline and Pick-it HD will be validated in the pilots.

3. Grippers design and validation for complex manual operations with the objective to cover complex dual-arm tasks. Additionally, a design for a generic manipulator has been validated.

Final results

UM-LIRMM and Tecnalia contributed to the state of art on dual arm manipulation, via papers on rigid and flexible object manipulation. Additionally, TECNALIA is progressing in the state of the art implementation of dual arm manipulation including information from the robot workspace that modifies the robot’s trajectory execution. COMAU is developing a tool for their costumers to facilitate them the programming of basic manipulations that integrates force feedback. In the market field, great impact is expected from: 1. COMAU is integrating Pick-it into PickAPP in order to leverage Pick-it’s easy to use 3D vision solution to detect a wider variety of objects; and 2. Tecnalia and DGH are developing a dual arm robot solution for industry required operations.

Website & more info

More info: https://versatile-project.eu/.