Loccioni Research participates to Automatica 2012 with InterAID, as a guest at the Echord stand (Hall B3, stand 530).

Come to see our innovative mobile manipulator conceived for advanced industrial diagnostics and discover its capabilities and potentialities.

The robot, composed of a mobile platform, a robotic arm, a high DOF end-effector and a set of measurement sensors, can autonomously move, interact and take data from the surrounding environment.

InterAID (Interactive Mobile Manipulators for Advanced Industrial Diagnostics) is an experiment conducted under the umbrella of ECHORD (the European Clearing House for Open Robotics Development).

InterAID experiment aims at demonstrating the feasibility of applying mobile robots with manipulation capabilities to advanced diagnosis and quality control in industrial environments and it has been developed together with Fraunhofer IPA.

Be our guest, contact us to enter Automatica 2012

Cristina Cristalli | c.cristalli@loccioni.com

Loccioni Research, with the European Research project Grace, participates at Automatica 2012, the 5^th international fair for automation and mechatronic.
Come to explore the new frontiers of production process and quality control, efficiency and factory-level decision making strategies by Multi Agent System (MAS).

Discover the new concept of manufacturing with GRACE Demo@Hall B3, stand 529.

Grace Demo is the self-adaptive robotized vision system for online quality control representing an individual agent in the overall MAS architecture.

GRACE (inteGration of pRocess and quAlity Control using multi-agEnt technology) is a focused NMP research project under the 7^thFramework Programme of the European Commission on “Adaptive Control Systems for Responsive Factories”. The project aims to improve the future manufacturing industry, bringing together two universities, a research center and three industrial partners from four different European countries:

• Università Politecnica delle Marche (Italy, Financial Coordinator)
• Instituto Politécnico de Bragança (Portugal)
• Sintef (Norway)
• Loccioni – AEA (Italy, Scientific and Technical Coordinator)
• Whirlpool Europe s.r.l. (Italy)
• SIEMENS AG (Germany)

Be our guest, contact us to enter Automatica 2012
Nicola Paone | n.paone@univpm.it
Cristina Cristalli | c.cristalli@loccioni.com

The Green@Hospital project (Contract number ICT PSP 297290) started officially on March 1^st  2012.

The project, partially funded by the European Commission under the ICT Policy Support Program aims at developing a Web-based Energy Management and Control System that will be used to integrate the most modern ICT technologies to achieve the challenging objective of 20% energy consumption reduction in Hospitals.

Loccioni Group (AEA Srl) coordinates a team of 10 partners who is going to work on this project for the next three years.

The consortium includes:

• Four technological partners
  | Schneider Electric (Italy)
  | IF Technology (The Netherlands)
  | Deerns (The Netherlands)
  | Agefred Servicios (Spain)
• Two research centres
  | IREC (Spain)
  | TUC (Grece)
• Four Hospitals
  | Azienda Ospedaliera Ospedali Riuniti of Ancona (Italy)
  | General Hospital Chania St George (Grece)
  | Servicio Andaluz de Salud (Spain)
  | Fundacio Sanitaria de Mollet (Spain)

Each hospital will make available specific areas selected considering the presence of renewable energy sources, already available building management systems that can be easily integrated in the Web-EMCS and refurbishing plans aimed at improving energy efficiency.

The kick off meeting of the GREEN@Hospital project will be hosted by Loccioni Group from 20^th to 21^st March 2012.

Welcome to the new Loccioni website, the landing place of a journey through the signs of culture, knowledge and technology.

Our journey starts with a new way of telling the story of what we have been yesterday, are today and imagine to be tomorrow.
It is a tale about knowledge, measure, technology, human being and nature.

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After the American and German events organized by National Instuments in the last months, Mo.Di.Bot, the mobile robot for industrial quality control and diagnosis, has been invited the NI Italian stage, too, held in Rome in February, 29th.

The event claim was “Which future will you invent?” and an entire session was dedicated to robotics.
Mo.Di.Bot presentation aroused the interest of the public, repeating the success received in the previous events.

Watch Mo.Di.Bot video

Mo.Di.Bot is an innovation in the field of industrial quality control, conceiving diagnosis and testing stations as flexible systems based on mobile robots equipped with mechatronic modules and diagnostic sensors.
The robot exchanges data useful for controlling process and products, achieving the full integration of measurement processes with the rest of the production system.
Mo.Di.Bot is able to move even in low structured environment and to reconfigure the measuring task depending on the type of product and its position. Thanks to those capabilities Mo.Di.Bot is an efficient measurement system for life test laboratories, able to replicate the same measuring instruments on the various stations operating in parallel.

CogSys 2012 is the 5^th International Conference on Cognitive Systems held in Vienna on February 22^nd-23^rd.

The Conference brings together researchers in cognitive systems and robotics from academia, government and industry, aiming to present the state-of-the-art in cognitive systems and robotics, to spotlight European research activities and to generate a lively discussion and interaction across the participants.

During the poster session, Loccioni Research for Innovation team presented the results achieved during the InterAID experiment, which aims to develop a mobile manipulator for diagnosis and testing in the production line and reliability laboratories (life test labs) of household appliances.

The main results presented demonstrate the robot is able to:
| safely move in the environment, detecting obstacles, avoiding collisions
| recognize the product to test in the environment detecting relevant features for the inspection
| interact with products performing operations like pushing buttons, turning knobs and opening doors
| correctly place measurement sensors on the product to acquire data from it
| analyze the acquired data and autonomously perform further tests if needed

Download the poster presented at CogSys 2012

After receiving the Ruban D’Honneur for Corporate Sustainability last November, this year Loccioni has once again stepped ahead of tough competition to be nominated in round two of the European Business Awards.
EBA prize is sponsored by HSBC and since 5 years it has been promoting excellence, innovation and best practice among the companies of 30 European countries.

This year Loccioni is competing within the UKTI Award for innovation category with Apoteca project, one of the main innovation of Loccioni Humancare, the business unit dedicated to develop technologies for health care, nutrition and wellness.

Loccioni was one of only two Italian companies in this category, and one of the nine to be admitted to this second phase, out of 25 country representatives.

Claudio Loccioni, Humancare Director, considers this result an important acknowledgement of a continuous research process going on between his team and the health care system: “For Loccioni Humancare to be finalists in the UKTI Award for innovation is  a real mark of distinction and is testament to the determination and passion which drives us. The commitment of our staff, of our customers and partners culminate in being recognized as being leaders in our field. We want to build a new way of approaching the health care issues, in terms of organization, method, measurement and innovation. Technologies becomes infrastructures of an articulated system in which Human Being, his needs, activities and relations are the most important part. And what  we have experienced in decades of working side by side with global industrial partners, in terms of performance, efficiency, quality, safety, traceability, we are now transferring towards the central issues of human care: health, nutrition, wellness”.

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The Loccioni Group participates at the NI Week 2011, the Worldwide Graphical System Design Conference and Exhibition that will be held at the Austin Convention Center, Austin, Texas, from 2^nd to 4^th August 2011.

Visit us at Booth 907!

We will be there to discuss together the integration of mobile robotics technology, robotic manipulators and simulation tools with diagnostic capabilities, sensors and data acquisition systems to develop innovative test solutions for the manufacturing industry.

The Loccioni guest star will be Mo.Di.Bot., the mobile robot for industrial quality control and diagnosis.

The key event for the Loccioni Group will be the participation at the session TS4180:
Tuesday 2^nd August | 10.30am-11.00 am | Room 17A
Cristina Cristalli, Loccioni Research for Innovation Manager
Mobile Diagnostic Robot: Sense, Move, and Control
“Robots for mobile testing are becoming more and more attractive due to their flexibility and multifunctionality. They provide an excellent way to move and place sensors and measurement equipment. Dr. Cristina Cristalli discusses challenges and opportunities for the adoption of autonomous platforms in test applications of white goods.“