Anytime informed path re-planning and optimization for human-robot collaboration

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (IEEE ROMAN) (August 2021) Cesare Tonola (University of Brescia); Marco Faroni, Nicola Pedrocchi (CNR-STIMA) and Manuel Beschi (University of Brescia, CNR-STIMA) Abstract Robots working in proximity of humans often need to change their motion to avoid collisions and interference with the operators. This…

[CALL FOR PAPERS] SPECIAL ISSUE ON “INDUSTRIAL ROBOTICS: DESIGN & APPLICATIONS”

Sharework project promotes a new Call for Papers for the Special Issue: “Industrial Robotics: Design and Applications” of the Applied Sciences Journal. This Special Issue has the objective to collect and present novel methodologies, methods and software tools pushing the synergetic interaction and integration between AI and robotics in industrial scenarios. The deadline for manuscripts…

SHAREWORK RESEARCH PRESENTED DURING RO-MAN 2021

Sharework project research has been presented during a session held within the 30th IEEE International virtual Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2021), celebrated from 8th – 12th of August. Project partners, Andrea Orlandini and Marco Faroni, from the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) and Mohamad Bdiwi from the Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Industry (IWU), organised the session “Safe and…

A Tool to Model Task Planning Domain for Human-Robot Collaboration

Presented at the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling – ICAPS 2021 (August 2021) Elisa Foderaro; Amedeo Cesta, Alessandro Umbrico, Andrea Orlandini (Institute of Cognitive Science and Technology, National Research Council of Italy) Abstract Temporal flexible planning enables Collaborative Robots to autonomously operate understanding the environment, dynamically planning their tasks and acting to achieve some given goals.…

Case Study: AI Task Planning Setup for an Industrial Scenario with Mobile Manipulators

Presented at the Scheduling and Planning Applications Workshop at the 31st International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling PlanRob (August 2021) Stefan-Octavian Bezrucav; Malte Kaiser and Burkhard Corves (RWTH Aachen University) Abstract AI task planning approaches are increasingly used in projects with flexible processes, where it must be autonomously deliberated about the selection and scheduling…

An Action Interface Manager for ROSPlan

Presented at the ICAPS Workshop on Planning and Robotics at the 31st International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling PlanRob (August 2021) Stefan-Octavian Bezrucav and Burkhard Corves (RWTH Aachen University); Gerard Canal (King’s College London), Michael Cashmore (University of Strathclyde) Abstract Task planning and task execution are two high-level robot control modules that often are…

Multi-modal interfaces for natural Human-Robot Interaction

Presented at the 10th International Conference on Digital Enterprise Technology (CIRP DET) – (October 2020) Dionisis Andronas; Sotiris Makris; George Apostolopoulos; Nikos Fourtakas (Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems and Automation, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics, University of Patras) Abstract Recent years, manufacturing aims on increasing flexibility while maintaining productivity for satisfying emerging market needs for higher product…

Sharework-related paper presented at the Robotics Science and Systems Conference

Julen Urain, PhD Candidate and researcher from the Technische Universität Darmstadt, has presented the paper “Composable Energy Policies for Reactive Motion Generation and Reinforcement Learning”, during the Robotics Science and Systems Conference which took place virtually from 12th – 16th of July 2021.  The paper introduces Composable Energy Policies (CEP), a novel framework for modular reactive motion generation, which computes the control…

Eurecat brings Sharework project to the Advanced Factories Congress 2021

Sharework project, coordinated by Eurecat, has been featured in the centre’s catalogue distributed during the Advanced Factories Congress as one of the key research projects on the automation of industrial processes developing a system capable of understanding the environment and predict human actions by using artificial intelligence and process data in an environment where human…

UNE presents Sharework standardisation activities during a ROSSINI project workshop

Sharework project has been presented during the 1st Standardisation workshop organised virtually by the ROSSINI European project last June 24th. The workshop was focused on the topic of “Standards about safe interaction and their applications within the projects of the Hybrid Production System Cluster”. The ROSSINI project has the objective to develop a disruptive, inherently…