Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

European Initiatives

FP7 Projects

Participants : Laurent Blanchet, David Daney, Jean-Pierre Merlet [correspondant] , Odile Pourtallier, Yves Papegay.

• Program: FP7-2011-NMP-ICT-FoF, Factory of the Future

• Project acronym: CableBot

• Project title:Parallel Cable Robotics for Improving Maintenance and Logistics of Large-Scale Products

• Duration: December 2011- December 2014

• Coordinator: Tecnalia

• Other partners: LIRMM (France), FRAUNHOFER-IPA (Germany), Duisburg-Essen University (Germany), EADS (France), ACCIONA (Spain), VICINAY (Spain)

• 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.