EWASS - Empowering Human Workers for Assembly of Wire Harnesses
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| Coordinator | Chalmers Tekniska Högskola AB - Chalmers Tekniska Högskola Inst f Industri- & materialvetensk |
| Funding from Vinnova | SEK 5 000 000 |
| Project duration | June 2022 - June 2025 |
| Status | Completed |
| Venture | The strategic innovation programme for Production2030 |
| Call | Sustainable Work in the Manufacturing Industry |
Important results from the project
The project met the goals set from the start, resulting in a software demonstrator, IPS EWASS, and a simulation-based framework, CMA-ES, to support the simulation of manual, automated, and collaborative assembly of automotive wire harnesses; AI-driven vision systems and human-robot collaborative assembly solutions in supporting the automation of wire harness assembly; eye/head-tracking-based solutions to predict worker behaviors in real time. The project has fostered cross-Europe collaboration.
Expected long term effects
The project is expected to have long-term effects on the automation of wire harness assembly, so that robots and other automation solutions will take over the dangerous, harmful, and ergonomically challenging operations while human operators concentrating on value-adding processes to promote a more sustainable production.
Approach and implementation
The project was planned to identify the challenges and objectives in empowering human operators in wire harness assembly, develop enabling solutions for the automation, and demonstrate and evaluate the developed solutions in practical use cases. Based on joint collaboration, the project results in contributions in terms of software, framework, and physical demonstrators, which had been disseminated in various forms, such as research articles, presentations, workshop.