The recipient will develop techniques for autonomous disassembly for electrical vehicle lithium-ION batteries (EV-LIB systems)

Active Cooperative Agreement Awarded Last action

Award ID
DEAR0001966
Recipient
Awarding agency
Obligated
$2,000,026

Award facts

Assistance listing
81.135 Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy
Completion date 63% complete
Funding
  • $1,800,023.40 Federal
  • $200,002.60 Non-federal
Place of performance
Boulder, CO, USA

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Description

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Leveraging more than eight years of research in robotic assembly and two industrial partners who are pioneering opposite ends of the circular EV-LIB economy, the recipient will combine industrial-grade hardware and symbolic planning with the emerging class of open-world vision language models (OWL) to perform disassembly of commercial EV-LIB systems. The system will identify the necessary tasks and then use a symbolic planner to execute disassembly while relying on OWL models to ground symbols corresponding to the individual parts. Here, large language models (LLM) will be used to help a human operator to quickly train the robotic system on previously unseen battery types. To deal with uncertainty in perception and actuation, we are continuously resolving the symbolic plan, use a probabilistic framework to rank-order actions that the robot will take, and use LLM common sense knowledge to reduce uncertainty. The recipient will use a humanoid robot in concert with collaborative robot arms to handle wire harnesses, remove screws and parts, before dismantling the EV-LIB with a heavy-duty industrial arm. The recipient will demonstrate the proposed solution on serviceable battery packs such as the hyundai ioniq, chevy bolt, and toyota RAV-4, together with our partner universe energy, whereas the humanoid solution will also be demonstrated at our local partner mile hybrid automotive.

Transactions

Action Federal Non-federal Date
Amendment $0 $0
Amendment $0 $200,003
Original award $1,800,023 $0

Subawards

Subrecipient Amount Awarded
Cirba Solutions, LLC Cirba Solutions, Inc. is a premier battery recycling and management company, extracting critical materials from scrap and used batteries and then supplying… $360,000

Quick answers

Who received award DEAR0001966?

DEAR0001966 was awarded to The Regents Of The University Of Colorado by Advanced Research Projects Agency (Department of Energy) on December 6, 2024.

How much is award DEAR0001966 worth?

$2,000,026 has been obligated on DEAR0001966: $1,800,023 in federal funding and $200,003 in non-federal funding.

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