Unibo Team Leader:Prof. Claudio Melchiorri, Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Energia Elettrica e dell'Informazione "Guglielmo Marconi" – DEI
The DEXMART project is focused on artificial systems reproducing smart sensory-motor human skills, which operate in unstructured real-world environments. The emphasis is on manipulation capabilities achieved by dexterous and autonomous, and also human aware dual-arm/hand robotic systems. The goal is to allow a dual-arm robot including two multi-fingered redundant hands to grasp and manipulate the same objects used by human beings. The objects shall be allowed to have different shape, dimension and weight.
The manipulation will take place in an unsupervised, robust and dependable manner so as to allow the robot to safely cooperate with humans for the execution of given tasks. The robotic system has to possess the ability to autonomously decide between different manipulation options. It has to properly and quickly react to unexpected situations and events as well as understand changes in the actions of humans cooperating with it. Moreover, in order to act in a changing scenario, the robot should be able to acquire knowledge by learning new action sequences so as to create a consistent and comprehensive manipulation knowledge base through an actual reasoning process. The possibility to exploit the high power-to-weight ratio of smart materials and structures will be explored aimed at the design of new hand components (finger, thumb, wrist) and sensors that will pave the way for the next generation of dexterous robotic hands.
Coordinator
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI FEDERICO II (Italy)
Other Partecipants
CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (France)
DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUER LUFT UND RAUMFAHRT E.V. (Germany)
FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM INFORMATIK AN DER UNIVERSITAET KARLSRUHE (Germany)
OMG PLC (United Kingdom)
SECONDA UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI (Italy)
UNIVERSITAET DES SAARLANDES (Germany)
ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA (Italy)
- Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Energia Elettrica e dell'Informazione "Guglielmo Marconi" – DEI
- Team leader: Prof. Claudio Melchiorri
Start date 01/02/2008
End date 31/01/2012
Duration 48 months
Project cost 8124252 Euro
Project Funding 6300000 Euro
Subprogramme Area Robots handling all sorts of objects operating autonomously or in cooperation with people
Contract type Collaborative project (generic)