Robotics application experiments

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EuRoC in a Nutshell
Fabrizio Caccavale
CREATE/ UNIBAS
info@robotics-challenges.eu

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What is EuRoC about?
Motivation
● The European manufacturing industry needs competitive solutions to keep global
leadership in products and services
● Collaboration and cross-fertilization between industrial and research community
should be strengthened  synergies across these will speed up the process of
bringing innovative technologies from research labs to industrial end-users
● EuRoC wants to act as an enabler in this context
● Challenges: innovation drivers, as they share the strive for questioning the status quo
● Robotics competitions: potential for fostering research and development, as well as supporting
academia-industry tech transfer
Concept
● Three industry-relevant challenges launched in April 2014 with open calls for
Challengers, Technology Developers, System Integrators and End Users
● Each of the challenges is divided into three stages of increasing complexity
● The project will end with one EuRoC winner team

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Who is part of EuRoC?
● Core Consortium — Research organizations, technology providers
and systems integrators providing: management and organization of
challenges, hosting robotic platforms, tools and support
● Research Teams — Research Organizations
● End Users — Manufacturing companies providing use cases to the
Challenger Teams
● Technology Developers — Companies or research organizations
developing innovative technologies and looking for an application of
their technology in the industrial robotics domain
● System Integrators — Companies that specialize in either bringing
together robotic components/subsystems or developing and
commissioning whole robotic systems (only for Challenge 1)
Challenger Teams

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Targets
● Strengthen competitiveness of European robotics industry in
production, logistics and servicing
● Pave the way for introducing new robot solutions in different
manufacturing applications (emerging markets appealing for
SMEs)

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EuRoC Challenges
Reconfigurable Interactive
Manufacturing Cell
Shop Floor Logistics
and Manipulation
Plant Inspection
and Servicing
● Each challenge involves whole manufacturing supply chains within their field, while
favouring technology transfer from academia to industry
● Registered Challengers had to solve a set of benchmarking exercises in the form of a
Simulation Contest during Stage I: Qualifying
● Selected Challengers then team up with partners from the industry and share existing
resources at three top European platforms in Stage II: Realistic Labs
● In Stage III: Field Tests, Challenger teams must ensure sustainability and adaptability to
end users

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Challenge Chart
30 39 34
€ 7 M grant money
available to Challengers

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Challenge Timeline
● Three challenges articulated in three stages
● QUALIFYING
● REALISTIC LABS
● FIELD TESTS
● Duration: 48 months

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Core Consortium
Germany
France
United
Kingdom
Switzerland
Italy

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Challengers

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Project Lures
1. Cumulative sum of € 7 M grant money available to the Challengers
● 9 Teams will receive up to € 375 K each in the two stages
● 6 Teams will receive up to € 585 K each in the three stages
2. Added value of the challenge experiments
● Benchmark new algorithms on three first-class European hosting platforms
● End users, technology developers and system integrators on board from start
● Open access to platforms
● Full support from local hosts and end users
● Test algorithms at end-user site in the final stage
● Financial support available to cover personnel and travel/lodge costs
3. Formation of Challenger Teams
● Gain business experience
● Great networking opportunities

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● Email queries
● info@robotics-challenges.eu
● Websites (newsletters)
● http://www.euroc-project.eu + http://www.i4ms.eu
● Video
● https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJDjJ02lYjw
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● http://www.innocentive.com/blog/2014/03/31/seeker-spotlight-euroc/
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