In January and February most of the work was put into the implementation of essential elements from the cognitive system, like the core software framework and the optical flow estimation module. The structure of the core framework strictly implements the idea of modular system design. Essential modules were programmed, performing the task of camera data streaming, visualization and optical flow estimation. The latter is a framework itself, providing the functionality of real time optical flow estimation based on the variational approach.

The work in 2011 was focused on defining requirements and characterizing components of the system,which will be used to carry out the experiments. In cooperation with our partners, Reis Robotics and KUKA, the experiments were discussed. As our partners are developers and manufacturers in the field of industrial robotics, there was  a lot of input on their behalf, which helped to refine our ideas for the experiments. Refinement in the sense of carrying out experiments which apply to existing human-robot-cooperation, as well as to scenarios which can be tagged as “something you want to have”.