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Use Case 4
- WARA lab, robots and people together
Scope
This use case focuses on the WARA Lab hosted at ABB Corporate Research in Vasteras. The lab is designed to support research connected to common industrial tasks: kitting, assembly, and lab automation. Kitting is the process in which all material needed for assembling a product is collected and delivered to a workstation. This task requires refined navigation and manipulation skills, such as pick and place, perception, and object detection capabilities. Assembly is the task performed when the pieces are put together. This additionally demands contact-rich manipulation where the contact dynam ics reflecting the physical properties of the pieces exhibit a high degree of variation. Lab automation is the process of integration of new technologies to improve or produce new processes in medical, chem ical, and analysis labs, among others. The challenges include the planning and navigation of multiple robots in the lab.
Principal Investigators
Projects
Research Project 1.1
Production equipment recyclability through portable automation
Research Project 2.1
Advanced automated planning and distributed control in industrial robotics
Partners
ABB is a global provider of automation solutions to the process and manufacturing industries that offers complete and integrated instrumentation, control, and electrification, as well as advanced reporting and management systems. ABB Corporate Research and ABB Robotics will be involved as PI in this use case.
Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) is a world-leading manufacturer of construction machin ery such as wheel loaders, articulated haulers, and excavators. Volvo CE has a long track record of collaboration with MDU.
Alfa Laval is a leader in the development and manufacturing of heat transfer, separation, and fluid handling. Advanced automation solutions will support Alfa Laval's overall focus on sustainability and inclusion.