ERF 2022
The European Robotics Forum, the most influential meeting of the robotics community in Europe, has been held physically for the first time after the COVID-19 crisis, in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Over 800 European robotics top experts are expected to attend the 12th edition of the conference. ERF2022 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 and Horizon Europe research programme.
Within this context the 9th Workshop on Hybrid Production Systems took place on June 30th.
It consisted of a series of targeted presentations of approximately 10 minutes each on different aspects of Hybrid Production systems, given by speakers from organizations throughout Europe, representing RTOs, Industries and Academics. Presentations included:
- Early results from just started research projects.
- They were in the form of elevator pitches, focusing on the innovation idea, its benefit to potential users and a short proof of concept.
- Technologies from more mature projects
- They were focused on technologies that have been developed within the research project, ready to be picked up by a larger user group to expand the potential customer base or that already are in the commercialization phase.
It was a great opportunity for the aforementioned stakeholders to listen the technical activities that are performed in a number of European funded projects and learn about the developments on key technologies. The projects presented, among others, were the following:
- REMODEL
- SHERLOCK
- HR-RECYCLER
- ROSSINI
- COLLABORATE
- ODIN
- SHAREWORK
Agenda of the Workshop
- 8:30 – 8:39 Introduction of Workshop and recap of HPS activities (moderated by George Michalos)
- 8:39 – 8:48 The REMODEL project: Current challenges and novel approaches for automation in wiring industry (moderated by Roberto Meattini)
- 8:48 – 8:47 A user-centric programming environment based on Kinesthetic Teaching and Visual Programming (moderated by Itzel González)
- 8:57 – 9:06 The HR-Recycler project: Robotic solutions towards hybrid human robot collaborative WEEE recycling plants (moderated by Dimitrios Giakoumis)
- 9:06 – 9:15 Project Rossini: Robot enhanced SenSing, Intelligence and actuation to Improve job quality in manufacturing (moderated by Matteo ZANAROLI)
- 9:15 – 9:24 Open-Digital-Industrial and Networking pilot lines using modular components for scalable production – ODIN project approach (moderated by Panagiotis Karagiannis)
- 9:24 – 9:33 New control methods for human-robot collaboration. The use-cases of project CoLLaboratE (moderated by Fotis Dimeas)
- 9:33 – 9:42 Sharework: Implementation of Human-Robot Collaborative systems (moderated by Nestor Garcia)
- 9:42 – 9:50 Part 1 Panel discussion (moderated by George Michalos)
- 9:50 – 10:20 Break
- 10:20 – 10:29 DrapeBot – Collaborative Draping of Carbon Fiber Composite Parts (moderated by Christian Eitzinger)
- 10:29 – 10:38 Computer-Aided Risk Assessment (CARA) – Semi-automated Risk Assessment and Reduction for Human-Robot Collaboration (moderated by Mohamed El-Shamouty)
- 10:38 – 10:47 Seamless and safe human-centered HRC for novel collaborative workplaces – the SHERLOCK approach (moderated by Nikos Dimitropoulos)
- 10:47 – 10:56 MERGING: Model-based human robot comanipulation: a composites industry paradigm (moderated by Gkournelos Christos)
- 10:56 – 11:05 SoftManBot: Advanced robotic technology for handling soft materials in manufacturing sectors (moderated by Mohammad Alkhatib)
- 11:05 – 11:14 Human centered manufacturing task evaluation: application on collaborative assembly of large parts (moderated by George Michalos)
- 11:14 – 11:23 Transfer of robotic technologies to non-conventional road maintenance applications (moderated by Ander Ansuategi)
- 11:23 – 11:40 Part 2 panel discussion