Freight Urban RoBOTic vehicle
Project description
The project proposes novel concept architectures of light-duty, full-electrical vehicles for efficient sustainable urban freight transport and will develop a FURBOT vehicle prototype.
The main paradigms are: energy efficiency, sustainability, mobility dexterity, modularity, intelligent automated driving and freight handling robotization. The design approach will integrate the knowledge of advanced technologies in the field of efficient electric power supply and drive trains, in wheel motors, lightweight high strength materials, frame structures, perceptual systems, new robotic tools for freights manipulation and intelligent controls.
The payload is considered packaged in freights boxes or ISO pallets. FURBOT can be used in a fleet offering a new sustainable, evolvable urban freight transport system. The system will be modeled and a simulator developed.
Project details
| Project Acronym: | FURBOT |
| Start Date: | November 2011 |
| End Date: | October 2014 |
| Duration: | 36 months |
| Project Status: | in process |
| Project Budget: | 3,27M€ |
| Project Funding: | 2.27M€ |
| Project Coordinator: | Dimec |
Partners
| Partner N° | Partner name | Partners short name | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 (coord.) | DIMEC – University of Genova | DIMEC | Italy |
| 2 | INRIA | INRIA | France |
| 3 | BREMACH INDUSTRIE SRL | BH | Italy |
| 4 | ZTS VYSKUMNO-VYVOJOVY USTAV KOSICE AS | ZTS | Slovakia |
| 5 | University of Pisa | UNIPI | Italy |
| 6 | PERSICO SPA | PERSICO | Italy |
| 7 | Mazel Ingenieros, S. A. | MAZEL | Spain |
| 8 | Serviços Municipalizados de Transportes Colectivos do Barreiro | TCB | Portugal |
People involved
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