SDU behind database for robot assembly: Industrial companies must learn from their own and other companies’ data
A new approach for gathering robotic experience from industry, so companies don't have to start from scratch every time they need to put robots into production, has been launched - SDU is leading the project, which shall make better use of robotic data.
As robots and automation solutions increase in industrial companies, plans and project descriptions grow in numbers, often ending up in a digital folder on a company PC – if such data is stored at all. In most cases the data is never to be used again.
So is the reality today, but in the future, established solutions for automation, robots and data produced during the production process shall be reused, possibly even from other companies. In that way, companies do not have to design the complete solution from scratch themselves.
This is the ambition of the ReRoPro project (Re-Use of Robotic-data in Production through search, simulation and learning) which is funded by the national research centre DIREC and led by the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Institute at SDU.
Meet the researcher
Norbert Krüger is a professor at Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Instituttet researching in computervision and robotics. He has been involved in multiple EU and national projects in industrial robotics and has co-ordinated among others the EU project IntellAct.