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The implementation of the ELIMCO use case continues to advance.
In April, Tecnalia and ELIMCO celebrated an integration workshop in Sevilla at ELIMCO facilities. Both partners deployed and tested the next functionalities implemented within the REMODEL project: ✅ Dual-arm robot coordination ✅ Teaching-by-Demonstration ✅...
Warehouse and fingers updates and test of wires collection
The robotic station for the automated wire collection is in development Written by IEMA
ELVEZ Use Case Implementation Continues
The implementation of ELVEZ use case is going on by testing the sensorized fingers developed at UCLV during the project with the final demo cables. Both tactile sensors and proximity sensors are used to evaluate the grasped wires and the connector positioning. Figure...
RoboSECT wins third prize at StartCup Emilia Romagna!
RoboSECT, a UNIBO spin-off generated within the REMODEL project to exploit the research results related to Use Case 1, wins the third prize at the StartCup Emilia Romagna. RoboSECT is a robotic platform to automate the process of manufacturing and quality...
Implementation of the medical hose surface preparation task
The medical hose surface preparation task for quality inspection has been successfully implemented and tested in the UNIBO laboratory and in the ENKI facility Written by ENKI
Robots have been installed at Volkswagen Poznan Plant
In the middle of September the installation of two ABB Robots was finalized. The main goal of such approach is to reflect as much as possible the real assembly conditions, but by using robots instead of human work. Test station is located next to the main assembly...
Implementation of the ELVEZ use case
The REMODEL team is working on the implementation of the ELVEZ use case. The tasks was tested during the integration week carried out at UNIBO at the end of September 2022. The cable sets are grasped from the warehouse, then the connectors are inserted into proper...
A NEW DRIVER FOR 3D CAMERAS
A new ROS2 driver for 3D cameras has been developed at PUT and it is in the early stage of testing before public release. Pushing all the necessary dependencies to the modern framework takes advantage of state-of-the-art approaches within the software communication...
Behind the scenes: The REMODEL Calibration Pipeline
In our previous posts from June and December we have shone light on the optical detection of wires and wire harnesses. However, all these algorithms are based on camera images and return the poses of desired objects in the sensor’s coordinate frame. To incorporate...
Wiring harness branches separation
One of the most challenging tasks to automatize in the ELVEZ pilot is the separation of the different cable branches of the wiring harnesses to route each of them through the required path of guides. The use case 2 of REMODEL consists of the automation of the wiring...
Latest updates from Elimco
ELIMCO’s setup has been installed and testing has already begun! Always keeping in mind the Project objectives and our ✈️use case✈️, the automation of the production of aeronautical cable harnesses, we have designed, in collaboration with Tecnalia, a complete test...
REMODEL’s 6th GA IN MUNICH
The last 12th and 13th of May, all the REMODEL partners participated in the 6th General Assembly of REMODEL. Finally, and after two and a half years, the meeting was face-to-face!!! The two-day meeting was held at TUM's facilities in Munich. During the meeting, the...
CAD Programming
In the REMODEL project, we continue working on flexible programming. We are improving the application to create robot programs automatically. This application uses inputs such as the 2D/3D model and the Excel documentation of the wire harnesses to obtain the strategic...
IEMA lastest updates
At IEMA we have been working on the integration of the robotic cell and on robotic fingers The robotic station to collect wires is under development and test on wires grasping and introduction started using a collaborative Omron TM5 We designed the robotic grip...
A Robotic Platform for Autonomous Switchgears Connection Testing
A dual-arm robotic platform for the autonomous testing of the electrical connections in a cabled switchgear has been developed and tested experimentally. A knowledge database for the execution of the task is automatically generated directly from the product design...
REMODEL Participates to the Research Topic on “Deformable Object Manipulation”
The coordinator of the REMODEL project Prof. Gianluca Palli participates in the organization of a collection of articles on Frontiers in Neurorobotics about the research topic "Deformable Object Manipulation" Manipulation of deformable objects is crucial for countless...
Proximity sensors have been integrated and tested
The proximity sensors, based on Time-of-Flight technology, have been integrated into REMODEL fingers and used to implement scanning strategies for thin wires. [video width="1920" height="1080"...
Medical Hose Detection and Tracking
The 3D shape reconstruction of a medical hose by means of multiple views gathered from a low cost 2D sensor has been developed and tested experimentally. In order to establish the capability of the robot of tracking the hose shape, a test is performed using purposely...
Third edition of the Special Session on “Cyber-Physical Systems for Deformable Object Manipulation” at ICPS2022
The REMODEL Consortium will organize a Special Session on “Cyber-Physical Systems for Deformable Object Manipulation” at the 5th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS) https://icps2022.com/ that will be held at the University of...
UC3 – Development of wiring harness assembly
Development of wiring harness assembly is pending in order to obtain the TRL5 in M32. Some of the project activities are completed, some are ahead of us. Within these firsts, there is the simulation of the process and a preparation of test station at Volkswagen Plant....