COROB Cooperative robotics powered by AI & data for flexible production cells

COROB aims to develop a flexible, cooperative and intelligent multi-robotic solution for arc welding-based manufacturing processes (joining and additive manufacturing), to offer new operational capabilities that allow to increase the efficiency and improve the flexibility of industrial processes.
COROB, conceived as a global solution, will employ a cooperative multi-robot system powered by Inspection, Monitoring, Control and AI techniques to optimize the welding process, and the adjacent manufacturing stages for time, cost, energy, and resource reduction.
The data generated will be processed in a data acquisition platform to feed the AI technologies, addressing optimisation, search, planning, and analysis, ensuring AI robustness and trustworthiness.
USE CASE 1 - Multi-robot cooperative welding
This use-case will focus on a cooperative multi-robot system for flexible manufacturing. The welding process will be performed using jigless robotic approach, defined as robotic welding without tools/jigs in which two manipulator robots hold and present the workpieces to one welding robots.
USE CASE 2 - Multi-robot cell for tooling repair using WAAM
This use case will deploy a multi-robot cooperative robotic cell for repair of tooling. The main robot will be the processing robot, equipped with a WAAM arc-welding head as an end effector, taking care of the repair tasks. Together with a 2-DoF rotary table, it will constitute an 8-DoF processing system, capable of repairing very complex geometries.
Additionally, a smaller, auxiliary robot will be integrated in the cell and will be responsible for the auxiliary processing tasks. A core technology integrated in the robot will be 3D scanning, while other technologies (e.g. inspection, part treatment, finishing, etc.) will be examined through the Open call of the project.
Call: HORIZON-CL4-2022-DIGITAL-EMERGING-02
www.corob-project.eu
Coordinated by Lortek
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LORTEK is a private Technology Centre, specialized in digitalising manufacturing processes and developing innovative solutions in digital and smart manufacturing in response to the technological challenges related to the digital and energy-climate transition.
LORTEK’s activities are framed within advanced & smart manufacturing:
• Additive Manufacturing Technologies
• Digitalisation Technologies
• Joining Technologies
Lortek brings together technologies and capabilities applied to different industrial sectors such as advanced manufacturing, energy, transport and metal industry.
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Lortek S.Coop. es un centro tecnológico privado, miembro de la alianza BRTA (Basque Research & Technology Alliance) y cooperativa integrada en la Corporación MONDRAGON, especializado en la digitalización de los procesos de fabricación y en el desarrollo de soluciones innovadoras en fabricación digital e inteligente, para dar respuesta a los retos tecnológicos relacionados con la transición digital y energético-climática.
La actividad desarrollada por Lortek se enmarca dentro de la fabricación avanzada e inteligente y cuenta con tres grupos de investigación en los siguientes ámbitos de conocimiento:
• Tecnologías de Unión
• Tecnologías de Fabricación Aditiva
• Tecnologías de Digitalización
Lortek reúne tecnologías y capacidades aplicadas a diferentes sectores industriales tales como fabricación avanzada, energía, transporte e industria del metal.