Cross-border cooperation on robotics

The Izarbel Engineering School is working with the IK4-IDEKO Technology Centre and the Aldakin consortium, based in the Spanish Basque Country on a project for a robotics platform for the machining of composite materials.

The agreement for the Txipirentsi-2 collaborative project between ESTIA, IK4-IDEKO and Aldakin was signed in the offices of the Nouvelle Aquitaine-Euskadi-Navarre Euroregion in Hendaye on 15 January last.

This agreement brings together the College of Advanced Industrial Technologies (ESTIA) on the Izarbel Science Park in Bidart, the IK4-IDEKO Technology Centre, which specialises in manufacturing and industrial production technologies and the Aldakin consortium, which specialises in production process engineering and automation and is based in the Spanish Basque Country. 

The aim of the Txipirentsi-2 collaborative project is to set up a robotics platform for facilitating precision machining of composite materials with the almost total elimination of filings and dust without using liquids, which could damage the materials.

IK4-Ideko will supply a set of innovative tools with a central vacuum system supported on a specific spindle and ESTIA will supply the technology for resetting the robot's 6D position in real time from information from motion sensors, while the demonstrator itself will be operated by Aldakin, which will incorporate the whole system on a commercial six-axis robotic system.

Websites:

https://www.estia.fr/

https://www.ideko.es/

http://www.aldakin.com/

https://www.euroregion-naen.eu/