Air-Cobot
| Country | France |
|---|---|
| Type | Cobot |
| Website | https://aircobot.akka.eu/ |
Air-Cobot, Aircraft Inspection enhanced by smaRt & Collaborative rOBOT, is a French research and development project of a collaborative mobile robot able to inspect aircraft during maintenance operations. Lead by Akka Technologies, this multi-partner project involves research laboratories and industry. Research around this prototype was developed in three domains: autonomous navigation, nondestructive testing and collaboration human-robot. The robot and the related research developement have been presented in exhibitions and conferences.
Diffusion
In october 23, 2014, a patent was filed by Airbus Group[1]. From 2014 to 2016, the robot had presentations in five exhibitions, one on robotics and two on aeronautics. The research developed in the project was presented in nine conferences. Twelve scientific articles were published nine conference proceedings and three journal articles. Part of publications is centered on navigation and/or inspection by Air-Cobot while the rest focuses on specific numerical methods or hardware solutions related to the issues of the project.
Located to Laboratoire d'analyse et d'architecture des systèmes during development, researchers or engineers working on the project regularly present the demonstrator to visitors (external researchers, industrial partners, students) and sometimes the general public during the 2015 feast of the science.
Exhibitions
- 2014 : TechnoDay Aerospace Valley,
- 2014 : Robotic Show Innorobo,
- 2014 : Salon des Partenaires de l'Industrie du Grand-Sud (SIANE),
- 2015 : Paris Air Show,[2]
- 2016 : Singapore Airshow.[3]
Journal articles
- Jovancevic, Igor; Larnier, Stanislas; Orteu, Jean-José; Sentenac, Thierry (November 2015). "Automated exterior inspection of an aircraft with a pan-tilt-zoom camera mounted on a mobile robot". Journal of Electronic Imaging. 24 (6).
- Esparza-Jiménez, Jorge Othón; Devy, Michel; Gordillo, José Luis (2016). "EKF-based SLAM fusing heterogeneous landmarks". Sensors. 16 (4).
- Tertei, Daniel Törtei; Piat, Jonathan; Devy, Michel (2016). "FPGA design of EKF block accelerator for 3D visual SLAM". Computers and Electrical Engineering.