A hybrid human-robot collaborative environment for recycling electrical and electronic equipment

Apostolos Axenopulos; Georgios Papadopoulos; Dimitrios Giakoumis; Ioannis Kostavelis; Alexis Papadimitriou Papadimitriou; Sara Sillaurren; Leire Bastida; Ozgur Oguz; Dirk Wollherr; Eugenio Garnica; Vasiliki Vouloutsi; Paul Verschure; Dimitrios Tzovaras; Petros Daras

doi:10.1109/SmartWorld-UIC-ATC-SCALCOM-IOP-SCI.2019.00312

A hybrid human-robot collaborative environment for recycling electrical and electronic equipment

Apostolos Axenopulos
, Georgios Papadopoulos
, Dimitrios Giakoumis
, Ioannis Kostavelis
, Alexis Papadimitriou Papadimitriou
, Sara Sillaurren
, Leire Bastida
, Ozgur Oguz
, Dirk Wollherr
, Eugenio Garnica
, Vasiliki Vouloutsi
, Paul Verschure
, Dimitrios Tzovaras
, Petros Daras

Visual and Multimodal Interaction

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	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
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	1754-1759
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781728140346
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/SmartWorld-UIC-ATC-SCALCOM-IOP-SCI.2019.00312
Publication status	Published - Aug 2019
Event	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 - Leicester, United Kingdom Duration: 19 Aug 2019 → 23 Aug 2019

Publication series

Name	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

Conference

Conference	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
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Leicester
Period	19/08/19 → 23/08/19

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production

Keywords

Human-robot collaboration
Weee recycling

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Axenopulos, A., Papadopoulos, G., Giakoumis, D., Kostavelis, I., Papadimitriou, A. P., Sillaurren, S., Bastida, L., Oguz, O., Wollherr, D., Garnica, E., Vouloutsi, V., Verschure, P., Tzovaras, D., & Daras, P. (2019). A hybrid human-robot collaborative environment for recycling electrical and electronic equipment. In 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 (pp. 1754-1759). Article 9060304 (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). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/SmartWorld-UIC-ATC-SCALCOM-IOP-SCI.2019.00312

Axenopulos, Apostolos ; Papadopoulos, Georgios ; Giakoumis, Dimitrios et al. / A hybrid human-robot collaborative environment for recycling electrical and electronic equipment. 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. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2019. pp. 1754-1759 (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).

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A hybrid human-robot collaborative environment for recycling electrical and electronic equipment. / Axenopulos, Apostolos; Papadopoulos, Georgios; Giakoumis, Dimitrios et al.
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. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2019. p. 1754-1759 9060304 (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).

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