Doctoral Meeting: 'Assistive Robotic Control for Dexterous Manipulation in Industrial Meat Cutting'
Despite advances in industrial automation, many manufacturing processes still depend on skilled manual labor. This is particularly true in sectors that handle variable, deformable materials, such as meat processing. These tasks are physically demanding and associated with a high incidence of musculoskeletal injuries, yet they remain difficult to automate because of the natural variability of the product.
Collaborative robotics offers a promising alternative by combining human expertise with robotic strength and precision. However, safe physical interaction between humans, robots and their environment requires the robot to perceive contact forces and respond to them appropriately.
This presentation reports on the progress of a doctoral thesis developed within the ROBOTA-SUDOE project on robotic assistance for the meat-processing industry. It presents a sensorized cutting tool equipped with a force-torque sensor, together with the calibration and compensation methods developed to obtain reliable force measurements. It then introduces a compliant control strategy that allows the robot to be guided by an operator and to adapt its motion to contact during cutting.
- Supervisor: Juan Antonio Corrales Ramón
- Moderator: Tomás Fernández Pena
Despite advances in industrial automation, many manufacturing processes still depend on skilled manual labor. This is particularly true in sectors that handle variable, deformable materials, such as meat processing. These tasks are physically demanding and associated with a high incidence of musculoskeletal injuries, yet they remain difficult to automate because of the natural variability of the product.
Collaborative robotics offers a promising alternative by combining human expertise with robotic strength and precision. However, safe physical interaction between humans, robots and their environment requires the robot to perceive contact forces and respond to them appropriately.
This presentation reports on the progress of a doctoral thesis developed within the ROBOTA-SUDOE project on robotic assistance for the meat-processing industry. It presents a sensorized cutting tool equipped with a force-torque sensor, together with the calibration and compensation methods developed to obtain reliable force measurements. It then introduces a compliant control strategy that allows the robot to be guided by an operator and to adapt its motion to contact during cutting.
- Supervisor: Juan Antonio Corrales Ramón
- Moderator: Tomás Fernández Pena
On-site event
Friday, November 20, 2026
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