The ROBO-PARTNER EC Project: CRF Activities and Automotive Scenarios

Abstract

ROBO-PARTNER is an integrated project (IP) co-funded by the European Commission, addressing "New hybrid production systems in advanced factory environments based on new human-robot interactive cooperation". It includes 14 partners from 8 different European countries (Turkey, Italy, Spain, France, Greece, Luxemburg, Portugal, Germany), with the duration of 42 months; TOFAS is the coordinator (the Turkish automaker based in Bursa) and LMS (the University of Patras, Greece) is the technical leader. The project started its activities on November 2013 by introducing the concept of a hybrid solution involving the safe cooperation of operators with autonomous and adapting robotic systems through a user-friendly interaction. Centro Ricerche FIAT contributions to the project deal with the application of the Human-Robot collaboration paradigm on some relevant test cases and automotive scenarios, implemented in its facilities of Orbassano, and are reported in this paper with the purpose of disseminating the project achievements.