The main task in this reporting period was the preparation and exhibition of the EXECELL project at hall B3, booth 510 of the Fraunhofer IFF at the 5^th International Trade Fair for Automation and Mechatronics AUTOMATICA from 05/22 – 05/25/2012 in Munich (see Figure 1).

Therefore we spend a lot of time for debugging and testing the overall system and further implemented two scenarios. The first one comprises an infinite loop of three movements of the KUKA Lightweight robot while the safety space is dynamically adapted all the time. Before the motion of the robot we additionally visualized on the one hand its intended moving direction and on the other hand the destination position accordingly. The second scenario was quite more complex. Here, we presented human-robot cooperation by depositing and detecting an object in a transfer-station and further grasping and placing it to a predefined position on the workbench. All time the safety space was dynamically adapted and additional information for guiding the operator was displayed.

Concerning Task 8 we completed the elaboration of test criteria and purchased relevant test pieces of different sizes and colors. On basis of this we started the evaluation of the system behavior, which is still in progress.

Figure 1: EXECELL project at Fraunhofer IFF booth at AUTOMATICA.