Robot Assisted Disassembly for the Recycling of Electric Vehicle Batteries

Wegener, Kathrin; Chen, Weihua; Dietrich, Franz; Dröder, Klaus; Kara, Sami

doi:10.1016/j.procir.2015.02.051

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“…Tracking the human operator with vision technologies for a safe HRC in disassembly is presented by Corrales et al as a concept and validated experimentally by the disassembly of refrigerators. Wegener et al , also use visual surveillance of the robot cell to make safe collaboration possible. Tellaeche et al describe further use cases of HRC in industry, also a disassembly case in which a human and a dual arm robot disassemble complex objects.…”

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Disassembly 4.0: A Review on Using Robotics in Disassembly Tasks as a Way of Automation

Poschmann

Brüggemann

Goldmann

2020

Chemie Ingenieur Technik

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To successfully implement circular economy processes into present value chains, economic feasibility of disassembly processes is essential. Current developments in science and technology, such as artificial intelligence and Internet of Things, foster steep progression in the field of robotics. In this review, the current research on robotics in disassembly is investigated by a systematic literature review. The results were clustered in a framework system distinguishing between applied and basic research on the two main streams of disassembly automation research, namely, predefined processes and adaptable, flexible automation.

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Section: Content Analysis and Classificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Disassembly 4.0: A Review on Using Robotics in Disassembly Tasks as a Way of Automation

Poschmann

Brüggemann

Goldmann

2020

Chemie Ingenieur Technik

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“…A relatively recent advance in automatic disassembly is Liam [15], a robot by Apple Inc. aimed at disassembling iPhone 6 devices. We can find more automatic or semiautomatic disassembly systems, like: a robot for assisting in recycling batteries [16]; Bdiwi et al's workstation for cars [17]; and, less recently, Scholz-Reiter et al's disassembly cell [18]. These contributions are meant to excel in a very specific task, at the cost of limiting their application to controlled environments.…”

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Practical Resolution Methods for MDPs in Robotics Exemplified With Disassembly Planning

Suárez-Hernández

Torras

Alenyà

2019

IEEE Robot. Autom. Lett.

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In this paper we focus on finding practical resolution methods for Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) in robotics. Some of the main difficulties of applying MDPs to real-world robotics problems are: (1) having to deal with huge state spaces; and (2) designing a method that is robust enough to dead ends. These complications restrict or make more difficult the application of methods such as Value Iteration, Policy Iteration or Labeled Real Time Dynamic Programming (LRTDP). We see in determinization and heuristic search a way to successfully work around these problems. In addition, we believe that many practical use cases offer the opportunity to identify hierarchies of subtasks and solve smaller, simplified problems. We propose a decision-making unit that operates in a probabilistic planning setting through Stochastic Shortest Path Problems (SSPPs), which generalize the most common types of MDPs. Our decisionmaking unit combines: (1) automatic hierarchical organization of subtasks; and (2) on-line resolution via determinization. We argue that several applications of planning benefit from these two strategies. We exemplify our approach with a robotized disassembly application. The disassembly problem is modeled in Probabilistic Planning Definition Language (PPDDL), and serves to define our experiments. Our results show many advantages of our method over LRTDP, like a better capability to handle problems with large state spaces and state definitions that change when new fluents are discovered.

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“…The biggest problem is the dismantling in the process of recycling. However, this process is time‐consuming and inaccurate.…”

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A generic framework for recycling of battery module for electric vehicle by combining the mechanical and chemical procedures

Zhang

Garg

et al. 2018

Int J Energy Res

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Summary By year 2020, due to enormous growth of production of electric vehicles, it is estimated that approximately 250 000 tons of battery must be disposed or recycled. Till date, the technology to recycle this much amount of batteries in a single year does not exist. Nor, do the methods for recycling are standardized and regulated because of differences in configurations of battery packs. This article conducts a systematic review on research of recycling methods for battery pack used in various stages such as from the dismantling/ disassembly of the battery pack, the detection of the residual energy of the battery, and the recycling/recovery of materials from the battery. The review summarizes basically the 2 main aspects of recycling of battery pack: the mechanical procedure and the chemical recycling. The work describes the existing recycling technology in these 2 aspects and identifies the important research problems in the process of recycling of battery pack such as (1) complexity of dismantling process of battery pack; (2) diversity of connectors used in battery pack; (3) safety of dismantling of battery pack; (4) instability of chemical materials in battery; (5) the chaos of the recycling market; and (6) emerging battery dismantling technologies. One important direction suggested is the automation of battery pack disassembly, which is a main factor towards formulation of generic framework for recycling of battery pack in an efficient manner. Based on these gaps, the present work also proposes a framework for the recycling of battery pack by combining the semi‐automation mechanical procedure of battery pack and enhanced chemical recycling of battery for recovery of vital materials. Future work for authors is to work on establishing and validation of proposed framework. The advantages of the proposed framework are compared with that obtained from the existing framework. The proposed framework when used shall result in efficient and effective recycling of battery module and promote greener environment.

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Robot Assisted Disassembly for the Recycling of Electric Vehicle Batteries

Cited by 181 publications

References 5 publications

Disassembly 4.0: A Review on Using Robotics in Disassembly Tasks as a Way of Automation

Disassembly 4.0: A Review on Using Robotics in Disassembly Tasks as a Way of Automation

Practical Resolution Methods for MDPs in Robotics Exemplified With Disassembly Planning

A generic framework for recycling of battery module for electric vehicle by combining the mechanical and chemical procedures

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