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AMRC’s Integrated Manufacturing Group’s work spans robotics and automation, integrated large volume metrology, digitally assisted assembly and manufacturing informatics
Castings, Design and Prototyping Group, Composites Centre, Structural Testing Centre and Medical AMRC, which are all based on the Advanced Manufacturing Park (AMP) in Catcliffe, Rotherham. Te AMP is also home to the AMRC’s sister centre, the Nuclear AMRC.
Artificial intelligence One of the demonstrators Edge showed me was a robot trained to understand its movements using artificial intelligence. Te system displays a circle in a random location on the floor. Te robot then tries to place a puck in the centre of the circle, and a camera tells the system the alignment of the puck and how close it gets to the centre. Te camera is feeding in data about where to position the puck, then seeing how accurately the robot can follow those commands. Te robot has been running for several weeks now, gathering data points and learning along the way. ‘Robots are very repeatable but not very
Te final investment stream comes directly
from customers. Te Rolls-Royce automated inspection cell, for example, is a specific project paid for solely by Rolls-Royce, for which, when it’s complete, Rolls-Royce will own the IP. Tis four-year project is scheduled to finish in 2020. Te centre also runs short assist projects
with small companies. It has worked with a hand tool manufacturer based in Sheffield, called Footprint Tools, to automate some of its production processes. It’s also worked with the
Cardboard Box Company, in Accrington, UK, to show how to palletise boxes from a conveyor belt using vision technology. ‘Our base is in aerospace, but we’re moving
towards automotive, rail and construction,’ Edge told me. ‘A lot of the technologies we use in aerospace projects are transferable and applicable to other industries.’ Te Integrated Manufacturing Group is
based at Factory 2050 on the Sheffield business park. Nearby are the Machining Group,
accurate – they’ll go to the exact same wrong position every time,’ Edge said. ‘We’re trying to train the robot to move more accurately.’ Te AMRC has four projects looking directly
at artificial intelligence for machine vision inspection, including a smart factory platform that’s using a neural network to identify faults during part assembly. A Basler camera, supplied by Multipix Imaging, monitors the assembly process, while Halcon soſtware analyses the images. Te centre has an entire
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