Projects overview
BILASURF | Bio-inspired laser functionalization of complex 3D industrial surfaces
01-01-2023
-31-12-2025
VITAL | InnoVatIve processing Technologies for bio-based foAmed thermopLastics
01-06-2022
-31-05-2025
Waste2BioComp | Converting organic waste into sustainable bio-based components
01-06-2022
-31-05-2025
Grade2XL | Application of Functionally Graded Materials to Extra-Large Structures
01-03-2020
-31-08-2024
Go-DIP | MANAGING DIGITAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN MANUFACTURING SMES DIGITALIZATION PROCESSES
01-04-2021
-30-04-2022
FACTS4WORKERS | Worker-Centric Workplaces in Smart Factories
01-12-2014
-30-11-2018
SESAME | Secure and Safe Multi-Robot Systems
01-01-2021
-31-12-2023
SYMBIO-TIC | Symbiotic Human-Robot Collaborative Assembly: Technologies, Innovations and Competitiveness
01-04-2015
-31-03-2019
ForZDM | Integrated Zero Defect Manufacturing Solution for High Value Adding Multi-stage Manufacturing systems
01-10-2016
-31-03-2021
COROMA | Cognitively enhanced robot for flexible manufacturing of metal and composite parts
01-10-2016
-30-09-2019
Some of the functional modules of COROMA taks care off the interaction with humans:
- Avoiding contact when human ooperator is around the robot
- Recognising human gestures to perform specific operation
Several functional modules of COROMA system allows it to interact with the production envionment in an enhanced way:
- Moving trough the workshop when required
- Sensing and recognicing the work environment and the wokpiece
- Avoiding collision with humans, machines and pieces
- Adapting the robot movements to the orientation of the workpiece
- Learning from previous experiences for performance improving
- Communicating and cooperating whit machine tools in a sichronised way
In some of the use case applications, the interaction with the workpiece:
- Is made by using the robot as a mobile support, controling the force applien on the workpiece
- Is made with specific tools adapted in the project: sanding tools, mechatronic hand
ZAero | Zero-defect manufacturing of composite parts in the aerospace industry
01-10-2016
-30-09-2019
MC-SUITE | ICT Powered Machining Software Suite
10-01-2015
-30-09-2018
ICP4Life | An Integrated Collaborative Platform for Managing the Product-Service Engineering Lifecycle
01-01-2015
-31-12-2018
The platform provides a HMI/Dashboard/Screen permitting the user to configure his PSS. The goal is the validation of the concept (RIA) more than the fine tuning of screens
Fortissimo 2 | Factories of the Future Resources, Technology, Infrastructure and Services for Simulation and Modelling 2
11-01-2015
-31-12-2018
IMPROVE | Innovative Modeling Approaches for Production Systems to raise validatable efficiency
09-01-2015
-31-08-2018
Optimization algorithms can find sub-optimal configurations of the plant and improve them. Newly calculated system parameters are verified in a simulation before they are applied to the real plant.
Optimization algorithms can calculate better plant configurations. Thesting these new configurations in a real plant can be very cost intensive as production may be compromised during configuration and testing. A virtual environment which is able to simulate new parameters and verify them is a big deal as the running production is not compromised during testing and evaluation of new parameters.
The main focus of IMPROVE are learned models. Manual modeling of system models is not suitable for the complex, fast chaning industrial plants we have today. Lots of expert knowlege is needed to manually create a model. Learned models can be created using only data and little to no expert knowledge is required depending on the technology.
C2NET | Cloud Collaborative Manufacturing Networks (C2NET)
01-01-2015
-31-12-2017
SCALABLE4.0 | Scalable automation for flexible production systems
01-01-2017
-30-06-2020
sCorPiuS | European Roadmap for Cyber-Physical Systems in Manufacturing
01-02-2015
-31-01-2017
COMBILASER | COMbination of non-contact, high speed monitoring and non-destructive techniques applicable to LASER Based Manufacturing through a self-learning system
01-01-2015
-31-12-2017
vf-OS | Virtual Factory Open Operating System
01-10-2016
-31-10-2019
From a technological point of view, Open vf-OS Platform will provide elements covering the connected world, allowing the exchange and collaboration of information between companies on a value stream thanks to the cloud approach to be adopted (vf-Platform). The Open vf-OS covers from the control device level, where information from the systems (IoT, CPS, embedded systems) is gathered, processed and empowered.
PREVIEW | PREdictiVe system to recommend Injection mold sEtup in Wireless sensor networks
01-01-2015
-31-12-2017
ModuLase | Development and Pilot Line Validation of a Modular re-configurable Laser Process Head
01-09-2016
-31-05-2021
AUTOWARE | Wireless Autonomous, Reliable and Resilient ProductIon Operation ARchitecture for Cognitive Manufacturing
01-10-2016
-30-09-2019
FIWARE http://www.eclipse.org/app4mc
FAR-EDGE | Factory Automation Edge Computing Operating System Reference Implementation
01-10-2016
-31-10-2019
The system blueprint is the FAR-EDGE RA. After having defined the requirements and the constraints for each block of the RA, a thorough analysis of the SotA has been done, which led to the identification of some existing software components meeting the specs. We then identified the gaps that the project will need to fill-in: not surprisingly, these where all the key enabling technologies, like the distributed ledger. However, hardly anything is going to be built totally from scratch in FAR-EDGE. The distributed ledger, for example, will be a customization of a generic, open source Blockchain platform (Hyperledger Fabric).
We are considering some core GEs from FIWARE as candidate building blocks of our Edge Computing architecture. In particular, the Publish/Subscribe GE (Orion Context Broker implementation) is a good candidate as the northbound interface exposed by Edge Gateways – i.e., computing nodes aggregating a number of local edge nodes (field devices, smart factory equipment) and running local automation and/or analytics processes. We are considering to significantly extend the Publish/Subscribe GE by adding distributed computing capabilities: a data context that is replicated and kept in-sync across a number of GE instances (running anywhere on the network), using a Blockchain and smart contracts as the backing technology. FAR-EDGE will contribute its results, as open source software, to the FIWARE for Industry community.
In the scope of FAR-EDGE, the value of FIWARE is in the OMA NGSI standard: a RESTful Web API implementing the publish/subscribe pattern on context information – i.e., a set of attributes representing the current state of some device or process. NGSI is the common language that FIWARE applications use to integrate themselves with the IoT world. For this reason, supporting NGSI in FAR-EDGE means opening up the Platform to the FIWARE community. The FIWARE asset that is crucial for the support of NGSI is Orion Context Broker (OCB), which as for all FIWARE Generic Enablers is open source software. In FAR-EDGE, we envision the use of OCB to implement the generic publish/subscribe interface of the Distributed Data Analytics subsystem