With the start of 2019, ISFOC embarks on a new project following a meeting held at the end of 2018, where all participants of the "openSIROCO - Open Innovation Platform for Collaborative Robotic Systems of Production 4.0" project gathered at the ISFOC facilities. This meeting served as the starting point for the work to be carried out and allowed the consortium members to share the project's technical details and coordination for its successful development.
The consortium consists of regional companies such as ISFOC, a member of the Castilla-La Mancha Finance Institute Group, dedicated to R&D in photovoltaic technologies, energy efficiency, and smart sensors, and acting as both coordinator and leader of the project; and Pago del Vicario, a hotel, winery, and vineyard owner in Las Casas (Ciudad Real), committed to integrating various new technologies into the world of viticulture and oenology. The consortium also includes Andalusian companies AEORUM España, a spin-off from the University of Málaga offering innovative preventive surveillance tools; and TTI Norte, an SME working at the technological forefront of the telecommunications, aerospace, defense, security, and science sectors.
The project also benefits from the technical collaborations of various research groups from the Higher Technical School of Agronomical Engineers of Ciudad Real at the University of Castilla-La Mancha (ETSIACR-UCLM) and the DIANA research group attached to the Department of Electronic Technology at the University of Málaga (UMA).
The main objective of the project is to seek robotic solutions and configurations applied to the improvement of Industry 4.0. These solutions will be adapted to open and heterogeneous sectors such as energy, agriculture, livestock, construction, mining, logistics, and transportation. The specific issues in vineyard cultivation and photovoltaic installations will be analyzed to create an experimental development of a management system for collaborative robotic missions in the photovoltaic and viticulture sectors. Ultimately, the goal is to bring robotic technology and Industry 4.0 to traditional industries to modernize work methodologies that facilitate or even automate decision-making processes, such as in vineyard cultivation and the operation and maintenance of photovoltaic plants. Similarly, the aim is to generalize and standardize operations to address new problems through open innovation and collective intelligence.
openSIROCO is a national project funded by the CDTI (Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology) through grants aimed at promoting regional cooperation in research and development (FEDER INTERCONECTA Programme) within the framework of the 2017-2020 State Plan for Scientific and Technical Research and Innovation. File Identification No.: EXP-00111433 / ITC-20181090.
The project also benefits from the technical collaborations of various research groups from the Higher Technical School of Agronomical Engineers of Ciudad Real at the University of Castilla-La Mancha (ETSIACR-UCLM) and the DIANA research group attached to the Department of Electronic Technology at the University of Málaga (UMA).