P6: Food-Processing Robotics

The food-processing use-case will address poultry processing and more specifically, the composi- tion of product packs with densely-packed products positioned in a stylised way, and the bi-manual removal or cutting of selected parts of chicken products. Using the capabilities developed in projects P1 to P4 this use-case addresses the challenge of how to deal with…

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P7: Food-Packaging Robotics

The food-packaging use-case addresses packaging of various food products like packs of cookies and bags of chips. The task is to pick these products from a bin and place them in a variety of containers. The robot(s) need to reorient the products, possibly using two arms, as the products are positioned in the bin in…

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The FlexCRAFT program

FlexCRAFT is a Dutch research program to advance Cognitive Robotics for Flexible Agro-Food Technology. The program is executed by an excellent team of robotic researchers from five universities in collaboration with fifteen companies and supported by NWO/TTW.

Projects

The program consists of seven projects organized in two research lines (RL). In RL1,  generic robotic capabilities are developed to allow robots to deal with the variations present in agro-food environments. In RL2, these generic capabilities are integrated, tested and evaluated in three agro-food use-cases. RL1 – Development of generic robotic capabilities P1: Active Perception…

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Four generic research projects

To deal with these challenges, generic robotic methodologies will be developed in the four generic research projects, P1, P2, P3 and P4. These generic methodologies will be integrated, tested and evaluated in the use-case demonstrators.

FlexCRAFT

FlexCRAFT is a Dutch research program to advance Cognitive Robotics for Flexible Agro-Food Technology. The program is executed by an excellent team of robotic researchers from five universities in collaboration with fifteen companies and supported by NWO/TTW.

Four generic projects

To deal with these challenges, generic robotic methodologies will be developed in the four generic research projects, P1, P2, P3 and P4. These generic methodologies will be integrated, tested and evaluated in the use-case demonstrators.

Three use-case projects

The program revolves around three agro-food use-cases. The uses-cases give rise to generic robotic challenges in dealing with variation. Demonstrators for each of the use-cases will be developed in the use-case projects P5, P6 and P7.