Sep 27, 2011 , by
Public Summary Month 9/2011
We have demonstrated basic robot interaction at the Scandinavian Industry Expo 2011 in Herning, Denmark. A Kinect camera was placed on the robot, so people visiting the expo could come to our booth and try having the robot arm imitate their own arm movements. This is the first step in the development of software that can recognize human gestures and translate them into commands for an industrial robot.
Aug 10, 2011 , by
Public Summary Month 8/2011
Production machines in factory halls are often equiped with feeders that contain the parts that are used during the production process. These feeders need to be refilled once in a while. The aim of this project is to develop a small, mobile robot that is able to assist humans in feeding task of production machines in a factory hall: A human who is not trained to work with robots should be able to show the mobile robot what it should do, i.e., by pointing at corresponding boxes and feeders in order to clarify with parts belong into which feeder. The aim is to become able to communicate with such a robot in a way that does not require complex programming or long-term training. Instead, robot programming should be possible 'on-the-fly' with a minimal time consumption for the actual programming task.
Present progress in this project contains a) communication of the mobile robot with the production line of a collaborating company, b) installation of a state-of-art robot arm on a mobile platform, c) use of the Microsoft KINECT camera for human tracking.
