Section: Partnerships and Cooperations
European Initiatives
Participants : David Daney, Jean-Pierre Merlet, Yves Papegay.
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Program: FP7-2011-NMP-ICT-FoF, Factory of the Future
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Project acronym: CableBot
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Project title:Parallel Cable Robotics for Improving Maintenance and Logistics of Large-Scale Products
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Duration: December 2011- December 2014
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Coordinator: Tecnalia
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Other partners: LIRMM (France), FRAUNHOFER-IPA (Germany), Duisburg-Essen University (Germany), EADS (France), ACCIONA (Spain), VICINAY (Spain)
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Abstract: The CableBOT project deals with a novel methodology for designing, developing and evaluating cable robots customized for the automation in large-scale auxiliary processes. Parallel cable robots extend the payloads and workspace of conventional industrial robots by more than two orders of magnitude. The main objective is to develop a new generation of modular and reconfigurable robots able to perform many different steps in the post-production of large-scale structures.