ERF 2021
8th workshop on Hybrid Production Systems
The European Robotics Forum, the most influential meeting of the robotics community in Europe, has been held online due to the COVID-19 restrictions, on 13-15 April 2021. Over 1000 European robotics top experts are expected to attend the 11th edition of the conference. ERF2021 hosted a major exhibition where companies, universities and research institutes showcase the most advanced European prototypes, products, services and projects funded under EU’s Horizon 2020 research programme. With over 50 workshops highlighting the newest robotics research, the event offered a unique window to the latest developments on the European markets.
Within this context the 8th Workshop on Hybrid Production Systems took place on April 13th.
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:
- Mobile autonomous co-workers
- Innovative human machine interfaces for collaboration
- AI based dynamic planning and control of hybrid production systems
- Versatile manipulation
- Exoskeletons, human supportive robotic systems
- Workplace optimization technologies
- Perception as an integrated cognitive capability, considering collaborative perception
- Facing the non-expected situations and adapt their behavior to better handle them
- Human safety and novel methods for autonomous and AI based risk assessment
The aim of this workshop 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 the Workshop
- 11:20 – 11:29 Introduction of Workshop and recap of HPS activities (moderated by Sotiris Makris)
- 11:29 – 11:38 Human Robot Force Based Cooperation for Manipulation of Flexible Objects in Industrial Environments (moderated by Unai Antero)
- 11:38 – 11:47 Rossini: Human robot collaboration in industrial environments (moderated by Matteo Zanaroli)
- 11:47 – 11:56 Cognitive mobile dual arm robots for reconfigurable manufacturing systems (moderated by Niki Kousi)
- 11:56 – 12:05 Project CoLLaboratE: New advances in human-robot collaboration (moderated by Fotis Dimeas)
- 12:05 – 12:14 Validation of a Human-Aware Proximity Detection System for safety purposes in different scenarios (moderated by Ander Ansuategi)
- 12:14 – 12:23 Production System Design and Reconfiguration based on Resource Descriptions and Automatic Capability Matchmaking (moderated by Niko Siltala)
- 12:23 – 12:32 Human centered interaction with robots for large parts manufacturing (moderated by George Michalos)
- 12:32 – 12:40 Part 1 Panel discussion (moderated by Sotiris Makris)
- 12:40 – 14:00 Lunch Break
- 14:05 – 14:14 The HR-Recycler project – working towards hybrid human robot recycling plants for Waste Electric and Electronic Equipment (moderated by Dimitrios Giakoumis)
- 14:14 – 14:23 Robot based order preparation (moderated by Iñaki Maurtua)
- 14:23 – 14:32 Affordance-based Grasping Point Detection using Graph Convolutional Networks for Industrial Bin-Picking applications (moderated by Ander Iriondo)
- 14:32 – 14:41 Enhancing flexibility of manufacturing processes via human-aware motion planning (moderated by Marco Faroni)
- 14:41 – 14:50 Seamless human-centered HRC using AI enhanced high payload collaborative manipulators (moderated by Nikos Dimitropoulos)
- 14:50 – 14:59 Sharework: A step further in collaborative robotics (moderated by Nestor Garcia)
- 14:59 – 15:25 Part 2 panel discussion