SiMOD - Sistemi Mobili Multi-robot per la Manipolazione di Oggetti Deformabili - ID 37510 PG/2023/296859
Project The SiMOD project aims at developing a multi-robot mobile manipulation framework capable of perceiving and manipulating deformable objects for applications of industrial applications based on collaborative manipulators installed on mobile platforms. The objective is to improve the work experience by decreasing the physical and cognitive effort of workers in the manufacturing sector in applications that involve the manipulation of deformable objects of significant dimensions, such as electrical cables, bags of loose material or packages of soft material, therefore not can be flexibly automated with the technological solutions available on the market. The technological objectives are the development and validation to a TRL 6 (Technology demonstrated in an industrially relevant environment) of a technology for multi-robot mobile manipulation, developing industrial research for the study and creation of a demonstration prototype from which to draw the enabling technologies for the subsequent creation and marketing of products and services for the mobile manipulation of deformable objects.
The prototype, consisting of two mobile manipulators equipped with vision systems for the acquisition and analysis of objects and operational scenarios, as well as gripping elements suitable for the perception and manipulation operations to be carried out, will be made available as a demonstrator at one of the locations of the CIRI-MAM of Bologna.