Author: Giulia Barbagelata

Advanced Robotic Technology for Handling Soft Materials in Manufacturing Sectors

Innovative and universal approach for handling deformable and flexible materials

In SOFTMANBOT EU H2020, we are developing an innovative and universal approach for handling deformable and flexible materials for the industry.Decathlon is engaged in the project as an industrial partner, with the aim of testing this new intelligent robotic system.Working together with our partners ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA, it has been developed an intelligent robotic…
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Robotic cell’s goals

During the past 6 months both AIJU and Industria Auxiliar Juema have establish as a goal to make the adjustments on the robotic cell, establish the connection between the software and the robotic arm and as a final step during this period- the relocation of the oven, the robotic cell, and the computer to the…
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Softmanbot General Assembly_October 13th-14th Alicante

📢 The SOFTMANBOT EU H2020 project is drawing to a close! Last week the project partners attended the M36 General Assembly in Alicante.The event was an opportunity to share all the robotic solutions for traditional industries developed thanks to this EU-funded H2020 initiative for the robotization of industry.The project aims to find an innovative robotic system for handling deformable and flexible materials used…
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Footwear use-case

In the last weeks we have been working intensively at PLASTINHER URBAN facilities. The mock-up developed during the previous period at INESCOP premises has evolved towards a more industrial implementation as we have installed the robotic cell to work on a real injection moulding machine. PLASTINHER staff set the stage to allow us to install…
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Fifth newsletter

Our Fifth newsletter is out now! These #newsletters are brought out to keep you informed on the latest developments of SOFTMANBOT #project, including interviews, upcoming #events, project #progress and achievements, #information on the project #partners and other related #news. Check it out here:https://mailchi.mp/cb9c2f555f62/softmanbot-fifth-newsletter Want to stay in touch? You can subscribe here:https://softmanbot.us19.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=dc4c69e69ddf8558ed944e027&id=846f81b89e

Aiju’s latest implementations on the Softmanbot project.

The H2020 SoftManBot project continues to develop approaches for the manipulation of deformable objects for the toy industry. In this last period, at AIJU Technological Institute, we have made great advances, largely integrated through the ROS framework, which bring us closer and closer to the final objective. To begin with, the whole robotic cell has…
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CA-INP contribution in WP4 and WP5

CA-INP contributes to different WP in the project.For WP4, we designed a dual quaternion based dynamic movement primitives (DMP) to learn bimanual deforamation tasks.We compared it’s performance with traditional decoupled DMP. We also added shape feedback to improve shape servoing. These methods are integerated in CA-INP mockups.For WP5, we developed further our tracking-servoing approach to be applicable in…
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CA-INP contribution to different WPS

CA-INP contributes to different WPs in the project. For WP2 and 4, we successfully managed to handle textureless objects using a 3D camera. We introduced a new tracking and a new servoing pipeline which can be implemented in practical industrial cases where there is no specific texture like the Michelin use case. Furthermore, we developed…
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Grasping work on the SoftManBot cell

Last months have been busy on the grasping side. Working on the best gripping tools to get a perfect welding, we designed several fingers to get the most of our Zimmer gripper. Having found a very efficient design, we decided with our partners to have it used for the next steps and will also change…
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Some robotic work

At PLASTINHER URBAN we are working closely with INESCOP in our factory for the installation of the robotic cell developed in #SOFTMANBOT for use in the footwear industry to tackle the task of demoulding soles.  After many tests on the developed prototype, we are currently working on the injection machine structure to be able to…
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