TY - GEN
T1 - A hybrid human-robot collaborative environment for recycling electrical and electronic equipment
AU - Axenopulos, Apostolos
AU - Papadopoulos, Georgios
AU - Giakoumis, Dimitrios
AU - Kostavelis, Ioannis
AU - Papadimitriou, Alexis Papadimitriou
AU - Sillaurren, Sara
AU - Bastida, Leire
AU - Oguz, Ozgur
AU - Wollherr, Dirk
AU - Garnica, Eugenio
AU - Vouloutsi, Vasiliki
AU - Verschure, Paul
AU - Tzovaras, Dimitrios
AU - Daras, Petros
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE.
PY - 2019/8
Y1 - 2019/8
N2 - In this paper, a novel hybrid human-robot recycling plant for electrical and electronic equipment is introduced. The proposed system will be developed in the context of the European research project HR-Recycler and its goal is to offer a hybrid collaboration environment for humans and robots. Through this collaboration, several currently manual, expensive, hazardous and time-consuming tasks of WEEE materials pre-processing will be substituted by automatic robotic-based procedures (categorization of electric/electronic devices, disassembling them, sorting of device components), before the materials enter the fine shredding machine. Although several solutions have been proposed for automation of recycling other types of waste (e.g. domestic), the industrial application case of WEEE recycling poses significant challenges and it is the first time, to the best of our knowledge, that a hybrid human-robot solution is proposed to address this problem.
AB - In this paper, a novel hybrid human-robot recycling plant for electrical and electronic equipment is introduced. The proposed system will be developed in the context of the European research project HR-Recycler and its goal is to offer a hybrid collaboration environment for humans and robots. Through this collaboration, several currently manual, expensive, hazardous and time-consuming tasks of WEEE materials pre-processing will be substituted by automatic robotic-based procedures (categorization of electric/electronic devices, disassembling them, sorting of device components), before the materials enter the fine shredding machine. Although several solutions have been proposed for automation of recycling other types of waste (e.g. domestic), the industrial application case of WEEE recycling poses significant challenges and it is the first time, to the best of our knowledge, that a hybrid human-robot solution is proposed to address this problem.
KW - Human-robot collaboration
KW - Weee recycling
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85083589357&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/SmartWorld-UIC-ATC-SCALCOM-IOP-SCI.2019.00312
DO - 10.1109/SmartWorld-UIC-ATC-SCALCOM-IOP-SCI.2019.00312
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85083589357
T3 - Proceedings - 2019 IEEE SmartWorld, Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, Advanced and Trusted Computing, Scalable Computing and Communications, Internet of People and Smart City Innovation, SmartWorld/UIC/ATC/SCALCOM/IOP/SCI 2019
SP - 1754
EP - 1759
BT - Proceedings - 2019 IEEE SmartWorld, Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, Advanced and Trusted Computing, Scalable Computing and Communications, Internet of People and Smart City Innovation, SmartWorld/UIC/ATC/SCALCOM/IOP/SCI 2019
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2019 IEEE SmartWorld, Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, Advanced and Trusted Computing, Scalable Computing and Communications, Internet of People and Smart City Innovation, SmartWorld/UIC/ATC/SCALCOM/IOP/SCI 2019
Y2 - 19 August 2019 through 23 August 2019
ER -
