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Partner Institut Pascal of project COMMANDIA is participating in a virtual booth at ICRA 2020.

You can see in the following the information about the project in the virtual booth about COMMANDIA and our goals:
Development of a mobile manipulator team that will handle deformable components of footwear in order to assemble shoes in industrial environments.
Real-time deformation tracking based on multi-camera RGBD systems. Grasp synthesis for stable manipulation of soles, fabrics and other components of footwear.
Deformation control of soft components by the manipulation with multi-arm robotic systems, Multi-robot coordination strategies for active perception and collaborative transportation tasks.
Application to a real demonstrator chosen by industrial partners. This research project (SOE2/P1/F0638) is funded by the Interreg Sudoe Programme and FEDER. More information here.

Institut Pascal will also answer any questions of the attendants by the Slack channel inside ICRA2020:
1. You need to register to the general workspace Slack of the conference.
2. When you log in the ICRA Slack, you need to click in the left menu to add the channel of Institut Pascal. You can search by the name of Institut Pascal or you can add the direct link.

The advances of project were presented by teleconference in the meeting of the COMMANDIA consortium on May 22, 2020. Some snapshots of the presentations can be seen is the following sequence of images:

A workshop of COMMANDIA project is in preparation to be held at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) at The Caesars Forum Convention Center, Las Vegas, USA, October 25-29, 2020. The workshop is entitled ROMADO: RObotic MAnipulation of Deformable Objects. More details can be found at the workshop page of ROMADO.

Newsletter 2020-03

The sole of a shoe is a flexible piece of material that needs to be handled gently in order to fix it with the rest of the shoe. Specially if one of the faces of the sole is full of glue. The following video, courtesy of INESCOP, shows that the automatic manipulation can be performed successfully with a robot arm.

 

 

The IEEE Students, Women in Engineering and Young Professionals congress (SWYP) is the most important event of the IEEE in Spain at the student and youth level. Each year it brings together approximately 80+ students and young engineering professionals from all over the country. It is supported and sponsored by the Spanish Section of the IEEE, the largest engineering association in the world.

Unfortunately, due to the crisis caused by the virus COVID-19 and following the recommendations of the Government of Aragon and the Ministry of Health all activities related to the SWYP 2020 were cancelled taking responsibility and prudence in this extraordinary situation. A workshop on the topics of COMMANDIA we organized was also cancelled, but we let here the poster we prepared which could have been presented.

 

COMMANDIA was present at the annual meeting Advanced Factories 2020 in Barcelona (3-5, March). Advanced Factories brings together the most innovative companies in industrial automation, robotics, machine tools and digital manufacturing, along with all the technologies that are driving reindustrialization, improving industrial competitiveness and ultimately providing lower manufacturing costs and new business models.

SIMAC TANNING TECH is the international event with the most qualified offer of machinery and technologies for the footwear, leather goods and tanning industries.

INESCOP took part at SIMAC 2020 (February 19-21 in Milan, Italy), where you can find the most important manufacturers of machines for footwear manufacturing, leather goods and tanneries, accessories and component, chemical products, prototyping systems, lab machinery and equipment, consumables, automation, etc.

SIGMA Clermont is organizing an open day on Saturday 15 February 2020. Teachers and engineering students will offer numerous scientific demonstrations to discover the different training courses and infrastructures.

Juan Antonio Corrales presented a demonstration with the Baxter robot manipulating a foam bar and also presented different work on deformable object handling.