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Item Enhanced Flexibility and Reusability through State Machine-Based Architectures for Multisensor Intelligent Robotics(2017-06) Herrero, Héctor; Outón, Jose; Puerto, Mildred; Sallé, Damien; López de Ipiña, Karmele; Tecnalia Research & Innovation; ROBOTICA_FLEX; FACTORYThis paper presents a state machine-based architecture, which enhances the flexibility and reusability of industrial robots, more concretely dual-arm multisensor robots. The proposed architecture, in addition to allowing absolute control of the execution, eases the programming of new applications by increasing the reusability of the developed modules. Through an easy-to-use graphical user interface, operators are able to create, modify, reuse and maintain industrial processes, increasing the flexibility of the cell. Moreover, the proposed approach is applied in a real use case in order to demonstrate its capabilities and feasibility in industrial environments. A comparative analysis is presented for evaluating the presented approach versus traditional robot programming techniques.Item Flexibility markets to procure system services. CoordiNet project(IEEE, 2020-10-13) Madina, Carlos; Gomez-Arriola, Ines; Santos-Mugica, Maider; Jimeno, Joseba; Kessels, Kris; Trakas, Dimitris; Pablo Chaves, Jose; Ruwaida, Yvonne; Tecnalia Research & Innovation; POWER SYSTEMSThe efficiency and reliability of electricity systems depend, among other aspects, on an efficient collaboration between the different market participants, which require updating the roles of all agents involved. The CoordiNet project, co-funded by the EU, intends to demonstrate how TSOs and DSOs can act in a coordinated manner, to purchase and activate system services, promote the cooperation of all actors and eliminate barriers for the active participation of DERs in the market. The results of the project will help to design scalable tools and methodologies for system operators and third parties to safely connect, manage and coordinate flexibility providers. This paper describes the developments in CoordiNet to ensure the interoperability of the different markets and platforms developed by TSOs and DSOs across Europe.Item Markets and platforms to coordinate the procurement of system services from large-scale and small-scale assets connected to the electricity network(2020) Madina, Carlos; Santos-Mugica, Maider; Gómez-Arriola, Inés; Jimeno, Joseba; POWER SYSTEMSThe efficiency and the reliability of the electricity system depend on an efficient collaboration between the different market participants. New challenges for the power sector, which require updating the roles of all agents involved, have emerged due to the growing importance of renewable energy sources, the advance of distributed generation, the development of self-consumption, the storage of energy and the mass integration of the electric vehicles. In this context, the safe and efficient functioning of the electricity system is linked to exploiting the untapped flexibility potential in both generation and demand. Therefore, the coordination of distribution system operators (DSOs) and transmission system operators (TSOs) in the procurement of system services provided by units located in both distribution and transmission grids become one of the current challenges.Item New induction wireless manufacturing efficient process for energy intensive industries (NIWE)(Stowarzyszenie Techniczne Odlewnikow Polskich/Polish Foundrymen's Association, 2018) Meléndez, A.; Obregón, A.; Tecnalia Research & Innovation; PROMETALItem Optimised TSO-DSO Coordination to Integrate Renewables in Flexibility Markets(IEEE, 2019-09) Madina, Carlos; Kuusela, Pirkko; Rossi, Marco; Aghaie, Hamid; Gomez-Arriola, Ines; Riaño, Sandra; POWER SYSTEMS; SISTEMAS FOTOVOLTAICOSThe necessary energy transition to decarbonize power systems is leading to increasingly important challenges for the operation of power systems. On the one hand, the intermittent nature of renewable generation requires system operators to procure ancillary services in larger volumes than in the past. On the other, the growing penetration of medium- and small-scale, flexible demand and storage systems in distribution networks could potentially offer network services, if they are aggregated effectively and there is an appropriate coordination between transmission system operators (TSOs), distribution system operators (DSOs) and aggregators. Therefore, an important topic to be analysed is whether distributed energy resources (DER) can replace traditional generation in the provision of ancillary services (AS), how this replacement will affect the system operators’ roles and how to improve the coordination between TSOs and DSOs. This paper shows the results of the cost-benefit analysis (CBA) performed within the project SmartNet to assess the advantages or disadvantages of different TSO-DSO coordination schemes, as well as the follow-up activities to be carried out in the project CoordiNet.Item Skill based robot programming: Assembly, vision and Workspace Monitoring skill interaction(2017-09-13) Herrero, Héctor; Moughlbay, Amine Abou; Outón, Jose Luis; Sallé, Damien; de Ipiña, Karmele López; ROBOTICA_FLEX; Tecnalia Research & InnovationThe skill based programming eases the robot program generation, its similarity to human behavior allows non expert operators maintaining, adapting or creating robotic applications. The use of skills requires different approaches for the interaction between them, especially for sharing information. The presented approach combines the skill based programming using a state machine for low level robot execution management. With the proposed framework the interaction and communication between skills is improved. The work presented below is focused on the use of vision skills and safe Workspace Monitoring, for addressing a real use case where interaction with robot motions (organized as assembly skills) is required.