Néstor Garcia, Sharework Technical coordinator and researcher at Eurecat’s Robotics and Automation Unit, has presented the project during the workshop “Working side by side with robots. Human factors in industrial settings” organised by HR-Recycler on June 18th. HR-Recycler is a European project aimed to create a hybrid collaborative environment in which humans and robots share…
On May 21st 2021, Néstor Garcia, Sharework project Technical Coordinator and Researcher at Eurecat’s Robotics and Automation Unit, has been interviewed by representatives of the SoCoRob project, exploring the social construction of collaborative robots as co-workers of employees and how they can change the relationship between human labour and technology. SoCoRob project, led by the Department of Sociology of Technology and…
Published at Mechanism and Machine Theory: 156 pp. 104152 (February 2021) Marco Faroni; Nicola Pedrocchi (National Research Council of Italy); Manuel Beschi; Antonio Visioli (University of Brescia) Abstract Robotized assembly and manufacturing often require to modify the robot motion at runtime. When the primary constraint is to preserve the geometrical path as much as possible,…
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on System-Integrated Intelligence (SYSINT) Dionisis Andronas; Angelos Argyrou; Konstantinos Fourtakas; Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos; Sotiris Makris (Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems and Automation, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics, University of Patras) (May 2021) Abstract Human Robot Collaboration assembly cells benefit the capabilities and skills of both industrial robots and humans, although…
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Formal Verification, Logics, Automata and Synthesis (OVERLAY), September 2020 Giulio Bernardi (Independent Researcher); Amedeo Cesta; Andrea Orlandini; Alessandro Umbrico (National Research Council, ISTC-CNR), and Marta Cialdea Maye (ROMA TRE University) Abstract In order to represent planning problems, Artificial Intelligence planning languages are used to describe environment’s conditions…
Presented at IEE RO-MAN Conference 2020 Marco Faroni; Stefano Ghidini; Nicola Pedrocchi (Italian National Research Council); Manuel Beschi (Università degli Studi di Brescia); Alessandro Umbrico; Andrea Orlandini; Amedeo Cesta (CNR – Institute of Cognitive Science and Technology (July 2020) Abstract Combining task and motion planning efficiently in human-robot collaboration (HRC) entails several challenges because of the uncertainty…
Presented at 53rd CIRP Conference on Manufacturing Systems (CIRP) Alessandro Umbrico; Andrea Orlandini; Amedeo Cesta (CNR – Institute of Cognitive Science and Technology (May 2021) Abstract The diffusion of Human-Robot Collaborative cells is prevented by some barriers. Classical control approaches seem not yet fully suitable for facing variability conveyed by the presence of human operators…
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…
