European industry is in a transition from mass production industry towards a more competitive, knowledge-based, customer- and service-oriented one. Production on demand, mass customisation, quick time-to-market of new products and variants are needed - at low cost and high quality even at small batch sizes. 

ECO2PAINTER aims at the development of scalable, flexible and user-friendly robotic systems for economic and ecologic painting even at small batch-sizes. ECO2PAINTER aims at the development of needed novel technology for self-programming and adapting painting robots. Project results will allow eco-efficient high-quality painting even of very small lot-sizes with downtimes during product changes that are 10-100 times shorter than those of conventional systems.

Objectives in detail:

• Development of a prototype for a robotic painting-system that programs itself by use of vision and a “what we see is what we paint” approach at high quality.
• Automatic application programming within minutes instead of hours/days/weeks for minimal downtimes at product changes and mixed production   
• Reduction of used paint  and increased quality  
• Field tests