Inclusive Project

INCLUSIVE is a project funded from the European Union’s H2020-FOF-2016 under grant agreement N° 723373. The INCLUSIVE project aims at covering the increasing gap between machine complexity and user capabilities by developing a smart and innovative HMI that accommodates to the workers’ skills and flexibility needs, by compensating their limitations (e.g. due to age or inexperience) and by taking full advantage of their experience. To achieve this, first the developed HMI system needs to be able to measure the sustainable cognitive load of the human operator and her/his capability to accomplish automation tasks in cooperation with the production system. Second, it must be able to adapt the automation functions and the information load of the production system to the measured capability of the user. Third, the HMI has to support and train low skilled operators to accomplish a complex automation task properly, also by integrating a virtual environment and an industrial social network. Ultimately, the goal of the project is to develop an inclusive working environment to ensure the widest workers’ acceptance and productivity for new automatic production systems. To reach this goal, INCLUSIVE will develop an ecosystem of technological innovations driven by human factor analysis applied to three concrete industrial use cases coming from companies that produce or use automatic machines whose acceptance and productivity are strongly connected to system usability, personal characteristics and working environment comfort. Partners: University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (UNIMORE), IT Technische Universität München (TUM), DE SCM Group S.p.A., IT KHS GmbH, DE Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTHA), DE Software Factory GmbH, DE Gizelis Robotics, GR Silverline Endustri ve Ticaret A.S., TR Centralny Instytut Ochrony Pracy - Państwowy Instytut Badawczy (CIOP-PIB), PL ASTER – Società Consortile per Azioni, IT PROGEA S.r.l., IT