EUROPEAN WORKSHOP onAPPLICATIONS of PARALLEL and CABLE-

DRIVEN ROBOTS

March 19, 2014INNOROBO

Lyon, Cité des congrès, France

Welcome!!

• First issue of this event

• Main goals:– Dedicated to the development and the application of parallel and

cable-driven robots, – With the aim of promoting interactions between academia and

industry,– To create stronger (and even new) links between academia and

industry around the considered workshop topics

• To achieve these goals, our purpose was to take advantage of the INNOROBO event!

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Some key figures

• Number of participants: 40

• Number of academic / industry members: 24 / 16

• 1 day with:– 2 plenary sessions

– 2 poster sessions for a total of 14 poster contributions

– 1 debate with 5 companies coming from 3 EU countries

• Represented countries (when considering all participants):

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Program

09:00 – Workshop opening

09:10 – Plenary session 1: State of the art on parallel robotsSpeaker: François Pierrot, LIRMM, France

10:10 – Plenary session 2: State of the art on cable-driven parallel robots Speaker: Andreas Pott, IPA, Fraunhofer, Germany

11:10 – Coffee break

11:30 – Poster session 1

12:30 – Lunch

14:30 – Debate between researchers, manufacturers and end-users with the companies:Tecnalia (Spain / France),Symétrie (France),GIMA Spa (Italy),PI France (France),IRT Jules Verne (France)

16:30 – Coffee break

17:00 – Poster session 2

18:30 – End of the workshop

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Acknowledgements

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• Our plenary lecturers: Andreas Pott and François Pierrot

• The debate partners: Tecnalia, Symétrie, GIMA Spa, PI France, and IRT Jules Verne

• All poster contributors, and all participants!!

• The other members of the organizing committee:

Stéphane Caro, Marco Carricato, and Marc Gouttefarde

• The French Research Funding Agency (ANR) and the ANR project ARROW

and the French clusters for competitiveness: EMC2 and Viaméca

Additional information

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• Please don’t forget to give us your email address for receiving the poster abstracts!

• Enjoy the workshop!

Workshop contact: Sébastien BRIOTEmail: Sebastien.Briot@irccyn.ec-nantes.fr