ESR 6

ESR 6 – Cyber-Physical Systems and End of life management in home automation

Project Description

The diffusion of mechatronics products and Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) is constantly increasing in several domains of applications, triggered by their fast technological trend. End-Of-Life (EOL) management of these products is not currently globally approached in terms of processes efficiency and sustainability, and environmental impacts. This is due to the lack of integrated, automated and flexible systems and devices enabling their treatment under economically and environmentally sustainable conditions.

This project aims at tackling the abovementioned issues by developing digital and physical tools and methodologies for the automatic management of EOL operations, with a specific focus on robotic disassembly and sorting, under the general objective of achieving an advanced convergence between cyberspace and physical space, through AI-based on big data and robots in a human centered super smart Society 5.0.

Host Institution

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) (STIIMA), Italy, PhD registration with University of Brescia

Planned Secondments

CUPER, INGEL, ULMA, MGEP, INGEL

Lead Supervisors

STIIMA - Dr Irene Fassi & Dr Lara Rebaioli