- Start: 01/09/2022
- End: 31/08/2026
Global economic crises have dictated manufacturing firms to rethink their production and business models. Production systems need to adopt both human and automated resources that can work together seamlessly. As a response, CONVERGING aims to Develop smart and reconfigurable production systems including multiple autonomous agents (collaborative robots, AGVs, humans) that are able to act in diverse production environments. The diversifying factors will be a multi-level AI-based cognition (line, station, resource levels) which will exploit the collective perception of these resources, allowing them to interact with each other and seamlessly coexist with humans under a "social industrial environment" that ensures trustful, safe and inclusive user experience.
CONVERGING has set out the following objectives:
* Implementing a highly reconfigurable production system by deploying collaborative robotics relying on multi-level AI to achieve autonomy.
* Interconnecting all production entities (Big Data pipeline) for real time capturing, storing (Data at Rest) and processing to support autonomous and collaborative behavior with minimal user intervention.
* Establishing a human centered social-industrial environment where all activities and interactions with humans are dynamically shaped to maximize user experience, skills & safety.
* Providing the interfaces to ensure safe and seamless interaction with collaborative robotic solutions, minimizing learning curves and setup times.
AIMEN will develop a digital thread for seamless data flow across the different control systems and production resources independently of the constraints due to the modelling of data (process nature, operating systems, file formats, etc.).
- Sectors: Additive manufacturing, Aeronautical, Appliance, Automotive
- Financing programme: HORIZON EUROPE
- R&D&i: Advanced robotic solutions for industrial applications, Integrated monitoring and control systems
- Leader: LABORATORY FOR MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS AND AUTOMATION (LMS) – UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS
- Partners: AIMEN Centro Tecnológico, Tecnalia, COMAU SPA, VISUAL COMPONENTS, Israel Aerospace Industries, Netcompany-Intrasoft S.A., FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG (FHG), Electrolux Italia S.p.A., Pilz, Prima Additive, Cranfield University, FORD España, S.L., ITERA SOLUCIONES DE INGENIERIA, S.L, KAWADA ROBOTICS, TEACHING FACTORY COMPETENCE CENTER (TF CC)
- Acronym: CONVERGING
- Ambit: International
- Web: https://www.converging-project.eu/
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