Sharework promotes a new Call for Papers to be presented in the Workshop “Towards the factory of the future: advancements in planning and control of industrial robots”, that will be celebrated on September 7th -10th within the 26th International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2021). In recent years, research on robotic planning,…
Sharework partners met online on May 11th-12th to celebrate the project’s 30-month consortium meeting and present the latest results for the development and integration of a software and hardware modular system capable of understanding the environment and human actions through knowledge and sensors, future state predictions, smart data processing, augmented reality and gesture and speech…
Stefan-Octavian Bezrucav and Nils Mandischer, scientific employees at the Institute of Mechanism Theory, Machine Dynamics and Robotics (IGMR) at RWTH Aachen University, presented their contribution to the Sharework framework at the “VDI Fachausschuss Mechatronik” (translated: VDI experts’ group on mechatronics) on May 7th 2021. In the presentation, the topics of safety, environment cognition and task…
The economic pressure on replacing human personnel with automated devices in production, combined with the limited flexibility of automation technology, have defined, so far, an approach toward automation which relegates the human as servant of protected “automation islands”, with only big red button to press when something goes wrong. Automated islands vs. collaborative automation Automation islands are capable of performing autonomously added-value tasks,…
We are currently implementing the Sharework project in the machining shop floor located in Cembre’s plant in Brescia (Italy): a solution in which production engineers, operators and human resources are all engaged. Our idea is to develop a centralised logistic area with cobots and AGVs which can perform clamping and unclamping tasks, while operators focus…
