Tuesday, July 28th 2020, 09:30am – 13:30pm

Human-robot collaboration has been recently introduced in industrial environments, where the fast and precise, but at the same time dangerous, traditional industrial robots have started being replaced with industrial collaborative robots. The rationale behind the selection of the latter is to combine the endurance and precision of the robot with the dexterity and problem-solving ability of humans. An advantage of industrial collaborative robots (or cobots) is that they can coexist with humans without the need to be kept behind fences. Cobots can be utilised in numerous industrial tasks for automated parts assembly, disassembly, inspection, and co-manipulation.

The aim of this workshop is to present novel technological approaches that facilitate the collaboration between robots and humans towards solving challenging tasks, in a shared working space without fences. The workshop will leverage the results of the EU-funded project HR-Recycler, which introduces the use of industrial collaborative robots for disassembling WEEE devices, but it also welcomes contributions from projects in industrial collaborative robotics as well as the broader research community. The workshop will consist of technical presentations that cover topics related to:

• Smart mechatronics
• Computer vision in robot-assisted tasks
• Human-robot collaboration
• Safety in the workspace

Organisers:

• Dr. Apostolos Axenopoulos, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas
• Dr. Dimitrios Giakoumis, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas
• Dr. Anna Mura, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC)
• Dr. Vicky Vouloutsi, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC),
• Eva Salgado Etxebarria, TECNALIA, Research and Technological Development Centre, Multisectoral and Multi-Technology
• Sara Sillaurren, TECNALIA, Research and Technological Development Centre, Multisectoral and Multi-Technology

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Participation to the workshop requires registration and no additional costs are required. The link to the registration can be found - Here