Radical Innovation of Adaptive Cobot Technology (RIACT)

Purpose and goal

In this project we want to develop and demonstrate a software development kit, RiFLEX Developer, to complement RiACT´s existing RiFLEX Runtime generic operating system for collaborative robots. As well as to adapt and augment RiFLEX Runtime with 6D vision capability and functions needed to integrate RiFLEX Developer and RiFLEX Runtime into a consolidated platform. We aim to radically innovate the state-of-the-art cobot operating system and its implementation with a series of novel technical approaches.

Expected effects and result

The expected effect is that the integration of collaborative robots becomes less time-consuming, leading to reduced programming costs. By simplifying the programming and making the RiFLEX platform usable on collaborative robots from different manufacturers, flexibility increases, breaking down barriers for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to invest in automation projects with this type of robots.

Planned approach and implementation

Lund University will focus on the development of the visual perception components of RiFLEX Developer, RiACT will focus on the development of GUIs, remote debugging facilities, skill libraries and application templates and they will prepare the RiFLEX software for testing by Odigo. Odigo will provide feedback throughout the entire project and focus on integrator and end-user needs. At the end of the project the RiFLEX software with all novel features will be demonstrated in a pilot test with customer-relevant pick-and-place user cases specified by Odigo.