Fabrizio Caccavale, Università degli Studi della Basilicata, IT

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What is EuRoC about?Motivation● The European manufacturing industry needs competitive solutions to keep global

leadership in products and services● Collaboration and cross-fertilization between industrial and research community

should be strengthened synergies across these will speed up the process of bringing innovative technologies from research labs to industrial end-users

● EuRoC wants to act as an enabler in this context● Challenges: innovation drivers, as they share the strive for questioning the status quo● Robotics competitions: potential for fostering research and development, as well as supporting

academia-industry tech transfer

Concept● Three industry-relevant challenges launched in April 2014 with open calls for

Challengers, Technology Developers, System Integrators and End Users● Each of the challenges is divided into three stages of increasing complexity● The project will end with one EuRoC winner team


Who is part of EuRoC?● Core Consortium — Research organizations, technology providers

and systems integrators providing: management and organization of challenges, hosting robotic platforms, tools and support

● Research Teams — Research Organizations● End Users — Manufacturing companies providing use cases to the

Challenger Teams● Technology Developers — Companies or research organizations

developing innovative technologies and looking for an application of their technology in the industrial robotics domain

● System Integrators — Companies that specialize in either bringing together robotic components/subsystems or developing and commissioning whole robotic systems (only for Challenge 1)

Challenger Teams


Targets● Strengthen competitiveness of European robotics industry in

production, logistics and servicing● Pave the way for introducing new robot solutions in different

manufacturing applications (emerging markets appealing for SMEs)


EuRoC Challenges

Reconfigurable InteractiveManufacturing Cell

Shop Floor Logisticsand Manipulation

Plant Inspectionand Servicing

● Each challenge involves whole manufacturing supply chains within their field, while favouring technology transfer from academia to industry

● Registered Challengers had to solve a set of benchmarking exercises in the form of a Simulation Contest during Stage I: Qualifying

● Selected Challengers then team up with partners from the industry and share existing resources at three top European platforms in Stage II: Realistic Labs

● In Stage III: Field Tests, Challenger teams must ensure sustainability and adaptability to end users


Challenge Chart

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€ 7 M grant money available to Challengers


Challenge Timeline

● Three challenges articulated in three stages● QUALIFYING● REALISTIC LABS● FIELD TESTS

● Duration: 48 months


Core Consortium

Germany

France

United Kingdom

Switzerland

Italy


Challengers


Project Lures1. Cumulative sum of € 7 M grant money available to the Challengers

● 9 Teams will receive up to € 375 K each in the two stages● 6 Teams will receive up to € 585 K each in the three stages

2. Added value of the challenge experiments● Benchmark new algorithms on three first-class European hosting platforms● End users, technology developers and system integrators on board from start● Open access to platforms ● Full support from local hosts and end users● Test algorithms at end-user site in the final stage● Financial support available to cover personnel and travel/lodge costs

3. Formation of Challenger Teams ● Gain business experience ● Great networking opportunities


Follow Us● Email queries

● [email protected]● Websites (newsletters)

● http://www.euroc-project.eu + http://www.i4ms.eu● Video

● https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJDjJ02lYjw● Seeker spotlight

● http://www.innocentive.com/blog/2014/03/31/seeker-spotlight-euroc/● Facebook page

● https://www.facebook.com/eurocproject● Twitter page

● https://twitter.com/EuRoCproject

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