ODIN
Open-Digital-Industrial and Networking pilot lines using modular components for scalable production (ODIN). The adoption of robots in lower volume, diverse environment is heavily constrained by the high integration and deployment complexity that overshadows the performance benefits of this technology.
Background
While robots have very well proven their flexibility and efficiency in mass production and are recognized as the production resource of the future, their adoption in lower volume, diverse environment is heavily constrained. The main reason for this is the high integration and deployment complexity that overshadows the performance benefits of this technology.
If robots are to become well accepted across the whole spectra of production industries, real evidence that they can operate in an open, modular and scalable way is needed. Such an approach needs to demonstrate:
- Easy customization and deploy ability: allowing multiple core technologies (from additional robotic units to individual sensing/ perception/ networking systems) to be easily integrated
- Autonomy through real collaboration of robots, allowing them to perform tasks in a non-sequential, non-preprogrammed and non-separated (fenceless) way of operation
- Appropriateness of robotic technology for different production tasks through support of different robot types and tooling that can be reconfigured for the particular production process
- Compatibility with existing production processes and already installed production systems
- Robustness through autonomy: ability to operate with very low degree of supervision.
Aspired by such challenges, ODIN brings cutting-edge technologies from the latest ground breaking research in the related fields, such as robotics, AI, reconfigurable tooling, Digital Twins, to demonstrate feasibility, efficiency, and sustainability of novel robot-based production systems.
Project description
The ODIN aspires to fill this gap by bringing technology from the latest ground breaking research in the fields of i) collaborating robots and human robot collaborative workplaces, ii) autonomous robotics and AI based task planning, iii) mobile robots and reconfigurable tooling, iv) digital twins and virtual commissioning and v) service oriented robotics integration and communication architectures. The vision of ODIN is to demonstrate that novel robot-based production systems are not only technically feasible, but also efficient and sustainable for immediate introduction at the shopfloor, and aims to strengthen the EU production companies’ trust in utilizing advanced robotics.
Aim and objectives
ODIN project aims to strengthen the EU production companies' trust in utilizing advanced robotics. The objectives include:
- Enabling the introduction of mobile, autonomous, environment aware and collaborative robotics in industrial settings.
- Creating digital validation tools for these robotic systems in order to allow scalability with minimum complexity and integration risks.
- Commercializing an advanced robotics integration platform able to link the robotics design and development stage with the normal production conditions.
- Deploying full scale demonstrators in different production sectors to serve as a token of the industrial grade performance of the ODIN production systems.
- Creating innovation ecosystem to enable sustainability of open Pilot Lines – involving robotic application stakeholders and inspiring further deployment.
Outcomes
The main outcomes of the project can be summarized as follow:
- Mobile dual arm manipulator for flexible operations.
- System for enabling docking and collaborative operation of mobile units.
- Generic Perception skill library providing Application-ready solutions for flexible robotics guiding.
- Mobile platform navigation software library, complementing the traditional SLAM with vision-based accurate localization.
- Fenceless environment monitoring and robot control software library.
- Automatic programming software library providing an easy operation programming for product-variants.
- Dual-arm manipulator constrained motion planning and compliant control software library.
- Multi-robot coordination system.
- DLP Projector and 3D sensor based dynamic safety zones, virtual buttons and GUI.
- Concept for VR/AR based safety training with HRC cells.
- Data model of resource descriptions and web service for sharing descriptions.
- Robust, safe and scalable autonomous mobile manipulator/AGV.
- Integrated solution involving different manufacturing technologies.
- Active digital twin protection framework and digital twin intelligent threat analysis toolkit.
- Deployment of innovative risk assessment and validation methods for new lines of robotics.
- Open flexible orchestration of workplaces.
- Human robot interaction suite for collaborative assembly operations.
- Model based task planner.
