European Robotics Forum, the most influential meeting of robotics and AI community, held its 10th anniversary edition in Romania. The event was organized Under the High Patronage of the President of Romania and Under the Patronage of the Romanian Presidency of the Council of the European Union. The most advanced prototypes, high end technology projects, financed under Horizon 2020, were exhibited to be admired and analysed at JW Marriott between 20 and 22 March.
Within this context the 6th Workshop on Hybrid Production Systems took place on March 21st.
This workshop is dedicated to presenting the latest technologies, research results facilitating Human Robot Collaboration (HRC) in an industrial setting. Some examples of such technologies are:
- Safety related technologies
- Human-Robot interaction technologies
- Mobile manipulators
- Sensor technologies
- Planning using decision making
The aim of this project is to present early results from ongoing research projects, final results from finished projects as well as the lessons learned from the latter ones. The purpose is to exchange experiences between the researchers with respect to the presented results and give to the researcher/inventor feedback. Additionally, the purpose of the workshop is to inform the community of emerging technologies that may soon be available on the market.
Agenda of workshop:
- 10:45 – 10:53 Introduction of Workshop and recap of HPS activities (moderated by Sotiris Makris)
- 10:53 – 11:01 Computer-Aided Risk Assessment of HRC Applications during Design (moderated by Ramez Awad)
- 11:01 – 11:09 Rapid Production System Design and Reconfiguration based on Automatic Capability Matchmaking (moderated by Dr. Niko Siltala and Prof. Minna Lanz)
- 11:09 – 11:17 Seamless and safe human centred robotic applications for novel collaborative workplaces (moderated by Dr. George Michalos)
- 11:17 – 11:25 The role of the digital twin in scalable production systems (moderated by Germano Veiga)
- 11:25 – 11:33 Update results of COROMA – Cognitively enhanced robot for flexible Manufacturing of metal and composite parts (moderated by Dr. Javier Hernández)
- 11:33 – 11:41 Hybrid Human-Robot RECYcling plant for electriCal and eLEctRonic equipment - Project Overview (moderated by Dr. Dimitrios Giakoumis)
- 11:41 – 11:49 ColRobot - Lessons learned about mobile manipulators in automobile and satellite production (moderated by José Saenz)
- 11:49 – 11:57 Robot enhanced Sensing, Intelligence and actuation to Improve job quality in manufacturing (moderated by Matteo Zanaroli)
- 11:57 – 12:15 Conclusion of Workshop Part 1 (moderated by Sotiris Makris)
- 12:15 – 14:00 Lunch Break
- 14:00 – 14:08 Decision making in dynamic reconfigurable shopfloors using mobile robots as assistants to human operators (moderated by Niki Kousi)
- 14:08 – 14:16 Application of robots to boat sanding process (COROMA) (moderated by Prof. Benoit Furet)
- 14:16 – 14:24 TRL approach to ensure maturity of VERSATILE exploitable results II (moderated by Unai Antero)
- 14:24 – 14:32 Assisting humans in I4.0: design and control of collaborative robots (moderated by Dr. Loris Roveda)
- 14:32 – 14:40 Control and Programming of Interactive Robots in Future Hybrid Production Systems (moderated by Dr. Dragoljub Surdilovic)
- 14:40 – 14:48 Human-centred workplace analysis and design: the HUMAN approach (moderated by Dr. George Michalos)
- 14:48 – 14:56 CRO-INSPECT: Efficient and flexible assistive robotic inspection (moderated by Dr. Ander Ansuategi)
- 14:56 – 15:04 Human-centered design for HRC in Sharework project (moderated by Dr. Jesús Pablo González)
- 15:04 – 15:12 Collaborative robots that work out of the fence: Present & future (moderated by Dr. Jordi Pages)
- 15:12 – 15:20 Co-production cell performing human-robot collaborative assembly (moderated by Prof. Zoe Doulgeri)
- 15:20 – 15:30 Round table, Discussion of next Steps (moderated by Sotiris Makris)