Enhancing awareness of industrial robots incollaborative manufacturing

Published in: Semantic Web, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-40, 2023 Umbrico, Alessandro; Cesta, Amedeo; Orlandini, Andrea   ABSTRACT The diffusion of Human-Robot Collaborative cells is prevented by several barriers. Classical control approaches seem not yet fully suitable for facing the variability conveyed by the presence of human operators beside robots. The capabilities of representing…

Sharework, finalist of the Advanced Factories Awards 2023

The Sharework project has been selected as finalist at the Factories of the Future Awards gala, celebrated under the Advanced Factories Congress on the 19th of April 2023. The project has been recognised amongst more than 170 applications, representing the work, state-of-the-art research, and advances for the digital transformation of the industry.  Sharework has been distinguished in the category of “Best…

Learning Action Duration and Synergy in Task Planning for Human-Robot Collaboration

Proceedings of the Workshop “Towards the factory of the future: advancements in planning and control of industrial robots” at the conference IEEE ETFA 2022. Sandrini, Samuele; Faroni, Marco; Pedrocchi, Nicola   ABSTRACT A good estimation of the actions’ cost is key in task planning for human-robot collaboration. The duration of an action depends on agents’…

Towards User-Awareness in Human-Robot Collaboration for Future Cyber-Physical Systems

Proceedings of the Workshop “Towards the factory of the future: advancements in planning and control of industrial robots” at the conference IEEE ETFA 2021 Alessandro Umbrico; Andrea Orlandini; Amedeo Cesta; Spyros Koukas; Andreas Zalonis; Nick Fourtakas; Dionisis Andronas; George Apostolopoulos; Sotiris Makris   ABSTRACT Cyber-Physical Systems constitute one of the core concepts in Industry 4.0…

Simplify the robot programming through an action-and-skill manipulation framework

Proceedings of the Workshop “Towards the factory of the future: advancements in planning and control of industrial robots” at the conference IEEE ETFA 2021 Villagrossi, Enrico; Pedrocchi, Nicola; Beschi, Manuel   ABSTRACT The paper introduces a robotic manipulation framework suitable for the execution of manipulation tasks. Based on the ROS platform, the framework provides advanced…

Open-Box Target for Extrinsic Calibration of LiDAR, Camera and Industrial Robot

Proceedings of International Conference on Mechatronics, Robotics and Automation (ICMRA), 2020 Rashid, Aquib; Kolker, Alexey; Hardt, Wolfram; Bdiwi, Mohamad; Putz, Matthias   Abstract Low cost 3D LiDAR complement cameras in perception application for various industrial environments. Safe and efficient human robot collaboration requires easy and accurate extrinsic calibration of sensors with an industrial robot. This…

Enhanced Cognition for Adaptive Human-Robot Collaboration

Proceedings of the Workshop “Towards the factory of the future: advancements in planning and control of industrial robots” at the conference IEEE ETFA 2021. Alessandro Umbrico; Mikel Anasagasti; Stefan-Octavian Bezrucav; Francesca Canale; Amedeo Cesta; Burkhard Corves; Nils Mandischer; Mikel Mondragon; Cristina Naso; Andrea Orlandini   ABSTRACT Cyber-Physical Systems constitute one of the core concepts in…