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Sensing technology for safe human-robot interaction
The digitalisation of the industry hinges on the successful integration of workers with robots. Also important is the use of robots capable of safe operations with minimum amount of robot setup times and costs and increasing shopfloor configuration flexibility. The EU-funded Sestosenso project will develop a new sensing technology from the hardware and up to the cognitive perception and control levels for the next generations of collaborative robots. The technology relies on proximity and tactile sensors embedded in the robot body to provide a unified proxy-tactile perception of the environment, thus controlling the robot’s actions and interactions safely and autonomously. Sestosenso will perform three industrial demonstrations in the fields of automotive industry, logistics, agriculture.
Sestosenso develops technologies for the next generations of collaborative robots capable of self-adapting to different time-varying operational conditions and capable of safe and smooth adaptation from autonomous to interactive when human intervention is required either for collaboration or training/teaching. The project proposes a new sensing technology from the hardware and up to the cognitive perception and control levels, based on proximity and tactile sensors embedded in the robot body, providing a unified proxy-tactile perception of the environment, required to control the robots actions and interactions, safely and autonomously.
Sestosenso is motivated by the industrial need to integrate workers with robots and the need for robots that could operate safely without out-of-the-robot infrastructure, thus reducing robot setup times and costs and increasing the flexibility of the shopfloor configuration.
The Sestosenso technology is demonstrated by three Use Cases of industrial interest: cooperative assembly (automotive), handling and packaging (logistics), and cooperative harvesting (agriculture). |
