LOCOBOT

Toolkit for building low cost robot co-workers in assembly lines

Coordinatore	PROFACTOR GMBH    more  Organization address address: IM STADTGUT A2 city: STEYR-GLEINK postcode: 4407 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Dieter Cognome: Brandecker Email: send email Telefono: +43 7252 885 114 Fax: +43 7252 885 101
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Austria [AT]
Sito del progetto	http://www.locobot.eu
Totale costo	5˙323˙426 €
EC contributo	3˙740˙000 €
Programma	FP7-NMP Specific Programme "Cooperation": Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies
Code Call	FP7-2010-NMP-ICT-FoF
Funding Scheme	CP
Anno di inizio	2010
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2010-08-01   -   2013-07-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	PROFACTOR GMBH  Organization address address: IM STADTGUT A2 city: STEYR-GLEINK postcode: 4407 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Dieter Cognome: Brandecker Email: send email Telefono: +43 7252 885 114 Fax: +43 7252 885 101	AT (STEYR-GLEINK)	coordinator	781˙380.20
2	FERROBOTICS COMPLIANT ROBOT TECHNOLOGY GMBH  Organization address address: ALTENBERGERSTRASSE 69 city: LINZ postcode: 4040 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Paolo Cognome: Ferrara Email: send email Telefono: +43 660 5636982 Fax: +43 660 5636982	AT (LINZ)	participant	469˙171.00
3	HOCHSCHULE FUR ANGEWANDTE WISSENSCHAFTEN FHINGOLSTADT - FACHHOCHSCHULE INGOLSTADT  Organization address address: ESPLANADE 10 city: INGOLSTADT postcode: 85049 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Johann Cognome: Schweiger Email: send email Telefono: 49	DE (INGOLSTADT)	participant	401˙117.00
4	POLITECNICO DI MILANO  Organization address address: PIAZZA LEONARDO DA VINCI 32 city: MILANO postcode: 20133 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Anna Cognome: Desantis Email: send email Telefono: +39 0223998241 Fax: +39 02 2399 8202	IT (MILANO)	participant	373˙897.00
5	AUDI AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT  Organization address address: - city: INGOLSTADT postcode: 85045 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Jens Cognome: Bunte Email: send email Telefono: +49 841 89 30440 Fax: +49 7132 31 8473251	DE (INGOLSTADT)	participant	363˙787.00
6	HERIOT-WATT UNIVERSITY  Organization address address: Riccarton city: EDINBURGH postcode: EH14 4AS contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Eva Cognome: Olszewska-Day Email: send email Telefono: +44 131 4513073 Fax: +44 131 4513193	UK (EDINBURGH)	participant	300˙000.80
7	THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH  Organization address address: OLD COLLEGE, SOUTH BRIDGE city: EDINBURGH postcode: EH8 9YL contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Helen Cognome: New Email: send email Telefono: 441317000000 Fax: 441317000000	UK (EDINBURGH)	participant	299˙748.00
8	RIDGEBACK S.A.S. DI PAOLO BARATTINI & C.  Organization address address: VIA SAN FRANCESCO DA PAOLA 6 city: TORINO postcode: 10123 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Paolo Cognome: Barattini Email: send email Telefono: 390173000000 Fax: 390173000000	IT (TORINO)	participant	257˙249.00
9	FESTO AG & CO KG  Organization address address: RUITER STRASSE 82 city: ESSLINGEN postcode: 73734 contact info Nome: Andreas Cognome: Muenzenmaier Email: send email Telefono: +49 711 347 2871 Fax: +49 711 347 542871	DE (ESSLINGEN)	participant	249˙500.00
10	VISUAL COMPONENTS OY  Organization address city: Helsinki postcode: 300 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Ricardo Cognome: Velez Email: send email Telefono: +3589252 40800 Fax: +358 9 252 40805	FI (Helsinki)	participant	244˙150.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The European automotive industry and their component manufacturers are facing the biggest shift in their history. The transition from combustion engines to electric drives (e-vehicle) requires pro-duction facilities that can initially deal with low and varying production volumes and can quickly be up-scaled to large numbers at need. LOCOBOT provides a solution to this problem by developing a flexible robotic assistant platform to support manual production processes and increase the produc-tivity and precision of such tasks. LOCOBOT does not only include the robot itself but also the en-gineering tools that are required for quickly building the robot, setting up its control structure and defining its tasks. Facing the demographic change, a further goal of LOCOBOT is the improvement of ergonomics in industrial production processes. A group of key players in the automotive industry, in automation components, advanced robots and engineering software will be supported by a group of excellent researchers to solve the technical and scientific challenges in LOCOBOT. The results will be demonstrated by setting up 3 typical and highly relevant use cases in a pilot production line of Audi AG. The automotive industry will benefit from LOCOBOT by having a robot assistant that can be quick-ly reconfigured in terms of its kinematic structure as well as its tasks. This allows them to make manual production processes much more efficient, to quickly up-scale a production process if re-quired and to improve working conditions by reducing the need to lift heavy objects (such as wheel hub drives for the e-vehicle). This will enable the industry to achieve a leading position in the the e-vehicle market and to keep up with the expected customer demand. The immediate impact (2-5 years) of LOCOBOT will be about 150 MEur in savings due to increased flexibility and efficiency, and will be 10 times as much in the following years depending on how the production numbers of the e-vehicle evolve.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

Industrial robots are used worldwide to assist or even replace people performing repetitive, dangerous or tiring tasks. EU-funded researchers are building tailor-made, low-cost robotic co-workers to revolutionise production processes in the automotive sector.