Fraunhofer Institute for Electronic Nano Systems

The  project »TREND« aims at developing a Digital Tool Kit (DTK) for smart robotics that would be relevant for Industry 4.0 and IoT. The DTK will immensely benefit the commercial production based EU companies, where integration of smart robot and its advanced automation capabilities will allow sensing early damage, reduce manufacturing wastage and simultaneously facilitates customized products without the struggle to change the entire manufacturing workflow. TREND will focus on the challenges that explicitly describes the inarticulate capability of the industrial pick and place robots i.e. inability to sense product specific processing complexity and execute appropriate process regulation. We want to exploit consortium’s diverse inter-disciplinary, but complementing core-competencies in science and technology, by demonstrating the inline implementation of sensors and multifunctional features to the robot’s hand using advanced IT communications. It would be made possible to smartly detect the product variability, anticipate process complexities and run adapted routines to follow-up manufacturing of different products without changing the production line and with very low ramp-up costs.

Manunet-ERA-Net 2020 Project MNET20/ICT-376 funded within European Union Horizon 2020 framework.