INESC TEC’s research in robotic and 3D perception systems, as well as in Digital Twins, helped pave the way for the digital transformation of the national automotive sector.
INESC TEC attended the public session dedicated to the final presentation of the project “PAC – Portugal Auto Cluster for the future”. The programme is part of the Mobinov – Auto Cluster platform, which aims to support the national automotive sector in terms of technological transformations in mobility.
INESC TEC researcher Cláudia Rocha presented the contributions of the research developed by the institution and the entire PPS in the development of new production technologies, favouring a new and improved positioning of the national automotive sector in global value chains – namely considering the transition to electrification. The presentation “Flexible and Digital Production” preceded the closing of the session, with the Minister of the Economy and Maritime Affairs, António Costa Silva.
The PAC was divided into six PPS. INESC TEC integrated and coordinated PPS5 – “Flexible and digital production technologies”. “INESC TEC developments focused on R&D activities in terms of Digital Twins, robotic and 3D perception systems, integrated data model development and plug and produce for advanced systems”, said Cláudia Rocha.
Since July 2020, the consortium – led by the company Simoldes, bringing together two dozen entities – has worked on the development, testing and demonstration of a new generation of industrial technologies and processes and products in various areas of the automotive sector; the work led to 17 demonstrator prototypes – with one of them officially presented at Automobile Barcelona 2023.
INESC TEC was involved in two prototype demonstrators: ”Digitalisation for the introduction of flexible robotics applied to injected plastic components” and “Digitalisation for automatic inspection for quality control applied to foundry”.
The PAC project led to concepts and innovations that can now enter the market via the Recovery and Resilience Plan. The project aims to generate new knowledge for the development, testing and demonstration of a new generation of technologies crucial to the positioning of the national automotive sector in a new vehicle value chain, addressing autonomous and connected mobility.
The PAC also seeks new ways of developing and validating products, considering the trends in terms of autonomous, electric, and connected cars.
The researcher mentioned in this news piece isassociated with INESC TEC
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