FourByThree is a European project aimed to design, build and test pioneering robotic solutions able to collaborate safely and efficiently with human operators in industrial manufacturing companies.
FourByThree is a joint effort of 15 European partners including research centres, industrial and technological companies, and a university. They are located in Spain, Germany, Italy, Finland, Holland and the United Kingdom. The project coordinator is Spain-based research alliance IK4-TEKNIKER.
The project started on December 1st, 2014, and will last for 36 months. It has a total budget of 6.9 million euros and is partly funded by the EU within the European Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, Horizon 2020 (grant agreement nº 637095).
FourByThree was active for three years (December 2014-2017). The project’s work plan was divided into 10 Work Packages (WPs), including research, design and pilot implementations, management, dissemination and exploitation.
| WP1: User centered human robot collaboration architecture |
| T1.1: User centered strategies for safe human robot collaboration |
| T1.2: Task and skill analysis and representation |
| T1.3: System architecture |
| T1.4: Safety Certification: initial analysis |
| T1.5: Experiment design and validation procedures |
| WP2: Design tools for safe and collaborative customizable robotic solutions |
| T2.1: Robot design |
| T2.2: Part and production process design for collaborative assembly |
| T2.3: Identification tools |
| T2.4: Simulation tools |
| WP3: Modular robot control for Safe and collaborative manufacturing |
| T3.1: Robot low level control |
| T3.2: Motion planning and control |
| T3.3: High level control functions |
| WP4: Safe and collaborative interaction framework |
| T4.1: Robot, Human and Environment monitoring for safe collaboration |
| T4.2: Gesture and voice based interaction |
| T4.3: Force based interaction: Manual guidance |
| T4.4: Task planning, monitoring and re-planning |
| T4.5: Graphical UI |
| WP5: Programming modular collaborative robots |
| T5.1: Programming framework |
| T5.2: Advanced learning by demonstration |
| WP6: Integration of components: Prototype development |
| T6.1: Scenario analysis and specifications in detail |
| T6.2: Risk analysis |
| T6.3: Components manufacturing and purchasing |
| T6.4: Integration of components |
| T6.5: System deployment |
| WP7: Experiments and validation |
| T7.1: Continuous Experimentation Lab |
| T7.2: Experiment execution: Pilot study 1 |
| T7.3: Experiment execution: Pilot study 2 |
| T7.4: Experiment execution: Pilot study 3 |
| T7.5: Benchmarking activity and coordination with on-going initiatives |
| WP8: Dissemination and communication |
| T8.1: Communication strategy definition in detail |
| T8.2: General public dissemination |
| T8.3: Industry oriented dissemination |
| T8.4: Scientific dissemination |
| WP9: Exploitation plan development |
| T9.1: Technology and Market Watch |
| T9.2: Exploitation plan development |
| T9.3: Analysis and application of the strategy through follow up funding |
| WP10: Administrative and Technical Management |
| T10.1: Administration and methodologies for integrating project activities |
| T10.2: Management and coordination |