AI-PRISM | AI-Powered Human-Centred Robot Interactions for Smart Manufacturing

#AIPRISM25: Technology providers – Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute

The AI-PRISM consortium holds the necessary expertise to strategically improve the EU Smart manufacturing value chain in four domains: collaborative environment, robot perception and recognition, robot programming and human factors. We are working to achieve the right trade-off between complementary and overlapping among the industrial partners.

In the technology providers category, we count on a South Korean partner with experience in the Research and Development of our technologies, including human factors at their core, the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI). This RTO partner focuses on technical developments, assessment, and transferability of the AI-PRISM results, together with more technical evaluation. 

ETRI has been the largest Korean government-funded research institute since 1976. ETRI contributes to the nation’s economic and social development through research, development and distribution of industrial core technologies in Information, Communications, Electronics, Broadcasting and Convergence technologies. At AI-PRISM, this partner brings its expertise and solutions by contributing to developing intelligent interaction between robot and human operators in collaborative control stations for use cases at the final control and packaging stations of home appliances in Silverline’s facilities located in Turkey.  

Today the ETRI team is sharing a video of their centre and its mission to achieve an intelligence-based digital transformation in their country. In 2019, this centre declared its plan to transform into a comprehensive national intelligence research institute. Since then, they have been duly committed to securing national growth engines through AI by establishing AI implementation strategies, roadmaps, academies and more, which aim to improve the quality of life of the people by carrying out R&D activities. 

ETRI is internationally recognized as a reliable open-source SW management institution with international standard ISO/IEC 5230 certification. Furthermore, the institution strives to build a sound open-source ecosystem through organic collaboration with government-funded research institutes, private industry, academia, and various communities. Therefore, they will contribute to our Horizon Europe project and revitalize market linkages with the research being carried out in Europe. 

At AI-PRISM, they will develop a methodology for quantifying human operators’ workloads and statuses. Based on the criteria, the system will monitor human behaviours, generate alarms and inform the operators of the robot’s status when the human operators are overloaded or stressed. Based on the status of the human operators, the robot will change its action by slowing down the processing speed or stopping the process. 

Thanks to ETRI’s contribution, the 12 tasks conducted in the absolute control and packaging station will be improved, increasing resource efficiency and reducing the total production time and costs and the cognitive load required from the operators.  

 

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