At the start of the next academic year, second- and third-year students in the Grande École Program will have access to a collaborative robot as part of their education.
Dominique Cotton, lecturer and researcher, and Charly Euzenat, senior lecturer, are involved in the ELF project with the arrival, at the start of the 2024 academic year, of a demonstrator codenamed "ROAM" for "RObot Arts et Métiers."
It is an anthropomorphic robot, meaning it can move like a human arm on six axes. This robot is "collaborative": an operator can work with it without safety barriers.
The principle
This demonstrator is intended to be integrated into projects involving several fields, such as foundry work, woodworking, and high-speed machining. The goal is to produce a complete product passing through these three workshops. The raw material will be forged and machined, and then the robot will create the wood cladding.
The educational objective
This demonstrator aims to show our students how a robot integrates into a machine, to understand the communication architecture depending on the machine, and to carry out basic conventional programming.
"This robot will be operational at the start of the academic year. It will be available to second-year students as part of their career projects and to third-year students in the Grande École Program's machining expertise program," explains Charly Euzenat.
Outlook
Students will build a mobile platform so that the robot can move around completely autonomously, without the intervention of an operator.
