U-Pick: a system for supporting employees who carry out manual assembly processes

Program name:

Operational Programme Intelligent Development 2014-2020, Measure 1.1: “R&D projects of enterprises”, Sub-action 1.1.1: “Industrial research and development work carried out by enterprises”.

Project title:

“U-Pick – based on radio and video localization technologies, a system for supporting employees carrying out manual assembly processes in which the correctness of workmanship is important for the safety of use of final products”

Implementation period:

2021-11-01 – 2023-10-31

Project value:

7,090,668.75 PLN

Value of co-funding:

4,254,401.25 PLN

Information about the project:

The project is co-financed by the European Union from the European Regional Development Fund under the Operational Program Intelligent Development 2014-2020. The project is implemented under the competition of the National Center for Research and Development: Competition No. 1/1.1.1/2021 – Fast Track “Fast Track”.

The aim of the project is to develop a system to support employees carrying out the process of manual assembly in manufacturing plants, where the correctness of the assembly is of great importance for the safety of use of the final products by verifying that the employee’s hand was in the given points of the workspace in the right sequence and for the right length of time. The system will be based on radio localization (Bluetooth 5.1) and vision (depth cameras) technologies.