The industry is moving towards more flexible, connected, and data-driven production models. This shift, fueled by technologies such as collaborative and mobile robotics, virtual and augmented reality, and cyber-physical systems, is transforming how factories are designed, operated, and maintained.
In this context, FABRICARE emerges, a strategic project that seeks to respond to the growing demand for solutions that allow reducing production times, increasing safety and decreasing costs through smarter and more efficient processes.
FABRICARE (Collaborative, safe and intelligent manufacturing through advanced interfaces, robotics and digital twins) It has concluded after intense research and development activity on lines of work that consider different technologies within smart manufacturing in collaborative environments.
Funded with 3,4 million euros by the CDTI through the Cervera Call for Technological Centres of Excellence 2023, the project has been led by Ceit and developed in collaboration with the Technology Centres Tecnalia, ikerlan, CTC y Help me.
Integration of robotics, perception systems, and digital twins
FABRICARE's integrated vision focuses on improving current manufacturing processes through the deployment of collaborative and mobile robotics, reliable perception systems, and their direct connection to a simulation and modeling platform based on digital twins. This platform allows for predicting and analyzing the behavior of the production process before it is executed, while also facilitating real-time monitoring and control.
In addition to coordinating the project, Ceit has contributed its knowledge and expertise to the development of digital twins for simulation, new haptic interfaces, advanced controllers for collaborative manipulators, environmental perception sensors and mobile robot localization by merging optical techniques with radio frequency.
As highlighted by Diego Borro, researcher at Ceit and coordinator of FABRICARE, “This project reinforces Ceit’s leadership in the development of technological solutions for the digital transformation of industry, consolidating a track record of more than two decades of research in these technologies.”
On November 13, the closing meeting of the project was held at the Ceit facilities, a meeting in which the results obtained were reviewed and the coordination and joint work of the consortium were valued. “The results have been very positive and reflect the excellent work done by the entire team,” Diego Borro points out. The solutions developed by FABRICARE – made up of Ceit, Tecnalia, ikerlan, CTC y Help me– have demonstrated the potential to design factories in more flexible, automated, connected, safe and intelligent environments.
The following video shows the demonstrator developed by Ceit, which combines automated and collaborative disassembly technologies, product inspection, and logistics using mobile robotics.
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