Audio-visual recognition for mobile robot in manufacturing environments

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Security is a crucial issue in collaborative robotics. A robot must perceive its environment with precision to maximize its productivity without compromising the safety of the workers around it. Visual recognition is a popular modality, but it is often limited to a small field and involves a high computational load ...

Evaluation of the application of cable robots to monitoring processing stations.

Hydro Québec

The objective of the project is to evaluate the feasibility of applying the cable robot concept to monitoring Hydro-Québec's processing stations. The research will be conducted at two or three electrical processing stations that require automated monitoring. It will be necessary to determine the workspace that can be reached ...

Visual distinction of plants by machine learning

Vallons maraîchers

Manual weeding of root vegetables is a crucial task for frugal crop yields. However, it is an expensive, lengthy and difficult task for farmers. Desherbex aims at building a robotic farm equipment that can replace manual weeding. It implies that the tool must 1) distinguish weeds from root vegetables and ...

Compact gripper for limited space

Robotiq

The use of robot grippers in industrial applications can be difficult when space becomes a limiting factor. Although many robot gripper models are commercially available, they usually require a significant amount of space around to object to grab to properly operate. This is largely due to the approach angle of ...

Impedance control and admission of collaborative serial robots with traction reducers

Vectis Drive

Design of a laparoscopic intervention simulation platform actuated by magnetho-rheological clutches

Exonetik

The research is developing a haptic simulation device actuated by magneto-rheological (MR) clutches to facilitate and accelerate the training of future surgeons by simulating laparoscopic procedures. This device is composed of a robotic arm with 3 degrees of freedom developed by Exonetik and coupled to a robotic trocar with 2 ...

Development of a robot for realistic execution of hockey slap shots

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In the sports industry, more and more equipment manufacturers are getting equipped with robots that simulate the movement of athletes to validate and test their products. When it comes to hockey, given the complexity of the movement to replicate, no existing robot can faithfully reproduce the impacts occurring when the ...

Human presence detection integrated with a manipulator robot

Kinova

The project consists in developing a system that will allow collaborative robots to sense human presence in their workspace and modulate their operating speed according to the proximity in order to satisfy safety requirements at all times. To do that, the sensors and technologies on the market and in academia ...

Explainable Motion of Mobile Manipulators from Null Space

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The manufacturing industry is in urgent need of safe and reliable robotic systems to redirect the human workforce towards more creative and conceptual tasks. Based on a safe and reliable mobile platform, a control architecture will be implemented from literature and then extended to help the worker understand the robot ...