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FURBOT - Freight Urban RoBOTic vehicle (2011 ~ 2016)

FURBOT is a European project developing an improved system for urban freight delivery. In particular a new fully-electrical semi-autonomous vehicle realizing freight transportation is proposed.

Although travel between the beginning and end points relies on the human driver, the procedures related to loading and unloading are almost entirely automatized. These include the precise docking of the vehicle at the freight boxes prepared for pick-up, as well as at the unloading location. Two specialized freight handling devices are mounted on the FURBOT van and able to pick up and place down freight boxes with euro-pallet bases. 
 
 
 

 

FURBOT

TIRAMISU - Toolbox Implementation for Removal Anti-personnel Mines, Submunitions and Uxo (2012 ~ 2016)

Anti-personnel landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXOs) present an important obstacle to the transition from crisis to peace for war-affected countries. They threaten post-conflict development and welfare.
 
The objective of the TIRAMISU project is to provide the Mine Action community with a toolbox to assist in addressing the many issues related to Humanitarian Demining, thus promoting peace, national and regional security, conflict prevention, social and economic rehabilitation and post-conflict reconstruction.
 

TIRAMISU

 

AUTORECON - AUTOnomus co-operative machines for highly RECONfigurable assembly operations of the future (2011 ~ 2015)

Several industrial sectors today are still using linear sequences of operations where the same manual and automated tasks are repeated in each cycle. This paradigm is efficient when aiming at maximum capacity and considering no breakdowns, but very inefficient in case of line de-saturation.

AUTORECON proposes the enablement, development and introduction of

  • autonomous, exchangeable and mobile production units which can change tasks and position in the shop floor,
  • highly interactive robotic structures
  • random production flow and all these, integrated under a common and open architecture.

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AUTORECON


CLOPEMA - Clothes Perception and Manipulation (2011 ~ 2015)

This project aims to advance the state of the art in the autonomous perception and manipulation of all kinds of fabrics, textiles and garments.
 

In particular, our research group is contributing to the project by designing an innovative compliant gripper which provides a safe, flexible, robust, and affordable solution to the garment grasping problem.

In-hand sense of touch and visual perception will be employed for the recognition of the garment type and the localization of viable grasping points for cooperative folding.

Mechanical flexibility is a key characteristic of the gripper, allowing safe human robot interaction and preventing textile wear and damage to the rigid working plane or to the hand itself.

 

CLOPEMA
 

 

PICAV - Personal Intelligent City Accessible Vehicle (2009 ~ 2012)

PICAV derived from a European funded project started in 2009 and finished in 2012, with partners with peculiar expertise from five European countries.
 
The aim of PICAV project is to introduce a new concept of transport that can be summarized in two main objectives: vehicle prototype and software simulator of the transportation system (in order to develop a central control unit to move and control the PICAV fleet).

PICAV allows people to move in the urban pedestrian areas where conventional vehicles cannot access.

The vehicle is designed to increase comfort of getting inside for the people with lower limbs disabilities, like eldery and disabled users.

The on board intelligent systems ensure the easy and comfortable driving by providing the drive assistant, pitch and roll vehicle positioning and intuitive drive steering which allows to have a very small turning radius.

PICAV is supplied by an electric power and does not causes any air pollution.
 

PICAV


SWARM IT FIX - Self-reconfigurable intelligent swarm fixtures (2008 ~ 2011)

The objective of SwarmItFIX is to develop a swarm fixture for a large range of thin metal sheet shapes to fully replace the rigid and partially flexible fixtures used today.

The focus is mainly, but not exclusively, in aircraft and automotive industries.

The performance in terms of flexibility, reconfiguration capabilities, leanness and competitive costs of the robot swarm fixture system, will contribute to the enhancement of competitiveness and efficiency of these manufacturing industries.

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SWARM-IT-FIX