ECHORD (European Clearing House for Open Robotics Development)

Cooperating robots for monitoring of riverine environments

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The town Peccioli in Tuscany is also called the "Robo Town". Here one of ECHORD++'s three Robotics Innovation Facilities (RIFs) is located. The RIFs provide robotic software and hardware platforms, as well as profound knowledge for system integration. They offer easy and non-bureaucratic access to robotic equipment, as well as to experts to support bootstrapping. And what's probably the best part of it: everything is free of charge.

The Peccioli RIF provides several environments to make experiments in realistic settings.

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Within the scope of the Echord++ experiment pickit, the Fraunhofer IFF and Scape Technologies aim to improve camera-based bin-picking systems through the use of tactile sensors in the gripper. This new system provides a multi-modal solution for bin-picking applications, improving the overall reliability of the system. This approach is designed to be adaptable to any existing bin-picking system. In the video the set-up of the bin-picking work cell and the tactile sensor technology are presented. The Echord++ project has received funding from the European Union.

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