TECNALIA
LORTEK
UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART
UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID
TEKNOPAR
SIEMENS
ETC
FDB-PROJEKT
ENAR
ACCIONA CONSTRUCCIÓN
ZUBLIN
FUNDING BOX
FASTTRACK VENTURES
DIGITAL FOR PLANET
AMALTEA’s main objective is to streamline the use of robotics, AI and data in the construction sector to reduce the energy use, resources and waste, increase safety, and improve processes’ reliability and product quality to adapt to the new demands from end users and Green Deal objectives. For that, the curtain-wall façade value chain will be reshaped by digitalizing the design, manufacturing, installation and disassembly/recycling phases. The global solution will consider human in the loop for collaborative robotics and will use existing technologies to guarantee the safety use of the data across the entire process. The solutions will be validated in four pilots that encompass AI parametric design and extended digital twin with all the data workflows along the façade value chain, digitalized façade manufacturing line, and implementation of the solutions in operational construction environments. The project will establish a collaboration with external SMEs (up to 25 projects) across Europe through a FSTP scheme.
LORTEK will focus on developing a robotic welding system for metal profiles joining to substitute actual mechanical fastening used for metal profiles connection during curtain wall manufacture. This will facilitate disassembly for circularity and enable different design solutions. For that, an intelligent robotic welding process and an automatic weld inspection system in an industrially relevant environment will be developed and validated. To do so, various fusion welding processes (arc and laser welding) and robotic systems (industrial robots or collaborative robots) will be benchmarked to compare the process and robotic system performance, efficiency and scalability potential. In parallel, external sensors integration for process monitoring and control will be analysed and specifically developed for the selected robotic welding process/system. An automatic weld quality inspection system will be also developed.