Projects overview
A4BLUE | Adaptive Automation in Assembly For BLUE collar workers satisfaction in Evolvable context
01-10-2016
-30-09-2019
Included technologies:
- Multimodal interaction mechanisms of workers with automation (voice and gestures).
- Augmented Reality interfaces for assistance and guiding
The A4BLUE framework introduces new ways of interacting with automation mechanisms (specifically, with robots) thorugh natural speaking and gestures.
FIWARE components are used within the A4BLUE architecture (context broker, CEP, identity management, collaborative asset management (FITMAN)).
Robots adapt their behaviour depending on workers' profiles.
A4BLUE enables the transference of knowledge among workers and from the organization to the workers as well, including best practives, instructions, tips from workers, etc., which is integrated within the ICT infrastructure for production.
AUTOWARE | Wireless Autonomous, Reliable and Resilient ProductIon Operation ARchitecture for Cognitive Manufacturing
01-10-2016
-30-09-2019
FIWARE http://www.eclipse.org/app4mc
XS2I4MS | Access to I4MS
01-09-2015
-28-02-2018
From Waste to Gold | From Waste to Gold , in Swedish: Från spill till guld
01-09-2014
-17-11-2016
Trash to Cash |
01-01-2001
-01-01-2001
Zero Vibrations |
01-01-2001
-01-01-2001
DINA |
01-01-2001
-01-01-2001
COMPOSITION | Ecosystem for Collaborative Manufacturing Processes _ Intra- and Interfactory Integration and Automation
01-09-2016
-31-08-2019
The COMPOSITION project contains a Digital Factory Model Component which offers representation of factory processes and resources in a common format based on well-known standards.
Requirements of modern production processes stress the need for greater agility and flexibility, for faster production cycles, increased productivity, less waste and more sustainable production. Human-machine interaction is put in the center, supporting the decision making process.
Investigation of advanced HMIs for direct interaction with real-world objects. Consideration of mobile user interfaces that allow accessing crucial immediate information everywhere in the factory. Consideration will also be given to data gathering from ultra low power IoT devices such as wireless sensors where data can then be aggregated and visualised at an appropriate HMI interface. Where possible provision for self-powering these IoT devices using energy harvesting will be taken into account in order to avoid battery replacement. Flexible and dynamic data-driven solutions that can be adapted to different environments and needs.
A Simulation and Forecasting Toolkit analyses the production processes and required resources in an integrated way and extracts forecasts for possible failures. Also forecasting is provided in supply chain and logistics, especially in fill level monitoring of bins and boosts the waste management and recycling processes. Sustainable manufacturing will be assisted by a Decision Support System. The Marketplace will enable dynamic integration with actors in the supply chain.
Factory2Fit | Empowering and participatory adaptation of factory automation to fit for workers
01-10-2016
-30-09-2019
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
Daedalus | Distributed control and simulAtion platform to support an Ecosystem of DigitAL aUtomation developerS
01-10-2016
-30-09-2019
DIGICOR | Decentralised Agile Coordination Across Supply Chains
01-10-2016
-30-09-2019
DISRUPT | Decentralised architectures for optimised operations via virtualised processes and manufacturing ecosystem collaboration
01-09-2016
-31-08-2019
CloudBoard: offers multiple views and access rights to different human actors Decision Support Toolkit: supports decisions authorised by humans, especially in the shop floor Enterprise and Factory models: accessible and re-configurable through user interaction
ConnectedFactories | Industrial scenarios for connected factories
01-09-2016
-30-11-2019
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
ENCOMPASS | ENgineering COMPASS
01-10-2016
-29-02-2020
INCLUSIVE | Smart and adaptive interfaces for INCLUSIVE work environment
01-10-2016
-30-09-2019
HUMAN | HUman MANufacturing
01-10-2016
-30-09-2019
KRAKEN | Hybrid automated machine integrating concurrent manufacturing processes, increasing the production volume of functional on-demand using high multi-material deposition rates
01-10-2016
-30-09-2019
ForZDM | Integrated Zero Defect Manufacturing Solution for High Value Adding Multi-stage Manufacturing systems
01-10-2016
-31-03-2021
HINDCON | Hybrid INDustrial CONstruction through a 3D printing
15-09-2016
-14-09-2019
GO0D MAN | aGent Oriented Zero Defect Multi-stage mANufacturing
01-10-2016
-30-09-2019
LASIMM | Large Additive Subtractive Integrated Modular Machine
01-10-2016
-30-09-2019
HIPERLAM | High Performance Laser-based Additive Manufacturing
01-11-2016
-31-01-2020
The A4BLUE framework consists of an ICT infrastructure that enables the integration of automation mechanisms, sensors, legacy systems based on IoT components (FIWARE,...) that enables the assistance and support on decision through divers HMI, including Augmented Reality.