Compared to other developed countries, French companies are only marginally involved in long-term fundamental research. For each project, a collaboration is set up between one UBFC research team and one or several industry partners.
The objectives are defined by the industry partners, which also nominate the project leader. In this project, we will investigate a new smart system made from a hardware component and a software approach that will enable the creation of the basic blocks of programmable matter, a matter made from centimeter-size modules attached together and able to move.
The hardware component is a quasi-spherical robot using computationally controlled forces for power distribution, communication, adhesion latching , and locomotion. The software approach aims to provide a new way of programming such a complex system through a scalable, real-time, efficient, expressive and at the same time safe programming of an ensemble of robots with an emphasis on self-configuration and self-reconfiguration distributed algorithms.
The application will use the robots to sculpt a shape-memory polymer sheet. The BAKUP project focus on ultra-high precision blanking with particular emphasis on automotive parts made of high-strength, high-alloy steel. The experimental work will be carried out on a very highly precise servo-electric press. In order to determine the limits of these high-power industrial tools, it will be necessary to understand the influence of the cutting conditions penetration law, sets, choice of displacement cycles, speed, acceleration-deceleration of the table, shape of the punch And mode of manufacture, etc.
In order to determine the limits of these high potential industrial tool it will be necessary to understand the influence of the process conditions penetration law, clearances, choice of forming cycles, speed, acceleration-deceleration of the table, punch shape and manufacturing, etc. The quality of the parts produced by the cutting of high thickness sheets of high alloyed steel will be evaluated by the appearance of the blanked edge, the dimensions of the blanked area perpendicularity β surface condition Ra Rz, stability of X-Y coordinates and to a lesser extent the volume of the burrs.
