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COOPWELD

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Acronym: COOPWELD Project Designation: Collaborative Robotics for Welding Components in Welded Construction. Project code: 006438 Total Cost: 888,205.03 € Funding amount: 581,784.41 €

Goals: The CoopWeld project aims to demonstrate that integration of offline programming for robots, advanced sensorization and augmented reality systems allows the use of robotic welding in the manufacture of small series of structural assemblies in a competitive manner. The CoopWeld system is a system focused on SMEs and their specific needs and their characteristics will be the first system dedicated to the automatic welding of metal structures for SMEs. The CoopWeld demonstrator system will result from the combination of the research results of the FP7-SMERobotics CLARiSSA project with the augmented reality technique (projection mapping), to obtain a cooperative system where the robot performs the tasks of lower added value and with greater time consumption and the operator is responsible for the assembly operations facilitated through the augmented reality system that is on board the robot. In the project will also be developed intuitive tools to support the decision at the level of welding that will make the system easier to operate and contribute to the increase of its productivity and quality. The development of the innovative CoopWeld system will revolutionize the important segment of the manufacture of metal structures in metallutic construction, mainly owned by SMEs. A wide and wide dissemination and dissemination of the project will be carried out using various communication media where the demonstrations are undoubtedly the most relevant. The expected results can be quantified as follows:

1 – Development of a robotic cell with an estimated production capacity of 15,000ton/year;

2 – Reduction of welding cost by 50%;

3 – Development of equipment adaptable to the reality of SMEs, with reduced deployment space, affordable acquisition and maintenance costs and reduced return on investment, less than 3.5 years

4 – Wide dissemination of the new prototype developed to the national community of the metal construction sectors and other, potentially beneficiaries (e.g. …), demonstrating its capacity to increase competitiveness. Several dissemination activities are planned, the most relevant being demonstrations, workshops, participation in fairs, website, conferences.

This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 680570.