Combination of an optical encoder and an external sensor to estimate cable length and tension

RBot9

RBot9 has developed the RoCap, a cable-driven parallel robot (CDPR) for aircraft inspection, maintenance and manufacturing applications. In order to facilitate the collaboration between the RoCap and its operator, we would like to improve two aspects of this robot: (1) we would like to facilitate the redeployment of the robot ...

Improving robotic manipulation through intelligent multimodal perception

Robotiq

Robotic systems have challenges to grasp and manipulate objects. The grasping process could be described in three main stages: Detection, planning and Execution. The foundation to complete a task is to have Generalizing methods for the new objects, environment and tasks which could be quite difficult due to uncertainty and ...

From craft to robot an innovation in industrial method

Kinova

The evaluation of manufacturing is very complex, in the medical and industrial fields. The application of several theories on production capacity and the processes involved will be put into practice in this project in order to validate the hypotheses and assertions in previous studies. Automation in the manufacturing field is ...

Sim-to-Real using reinforcement learning applied to collaborative robots

Thales-cortAIx

My research project is taking place in the 3IT of the University of Sherbrooke under the supervision of Pr Wael Suleiman. The main objective of my research will be to reduce the gap between simulation learning and real learning in the field of collaborative robot control. To achieve this, I ...

Test robot reproducing realistic hockey slap shot

Bauer

Hockey stick manufacturers wish to test their products for quality control and to help with the development of new models. However, there is currently no reliable and repeatable way of reproducing a slap shot that is representative of a real-life situation. Industrial robots currently used are poorly suited for this ...

Collaborative robot tasked with sanding gypsum walls

RCM

In the context of prefabricated house with gypsum walls, the building step of sanding the left-over plaster used for covering screw holes and joints between the gypsum sheets (on the walls, the ceiling and the corners), is a laborious task. The objective of the project is to detect the areas ...

Decision architecture for mobile robot autonomy

Sycodal

The research project proposed here therefore consists of exploiting a decision-making architecture to program a mobile manipulator robot to perform machine cleaning and maintenance tasks in industrial environments, such as vacuuming and taking vibration measurements on machines. This robot must operate in shared autonomy, that is to say that the ...

Interaction control for collaborative robot with traction reducers

Vectis Drive

Control of a collaborative robot for sanding tasks

RCM