A message from the ECHORD coordinator Alois Knoll

Aim of the project: The LearnBiP experiment aims at improving the success rate in Bin-picking applications by learning and the use of dexterous hands. Current bin-picking systems use hand defined grasp positions as a basis to grasp objects in the bin. We want to improve this approach by incorporating the experience gained...

During the last two months the consortium has been dealing with minor problems arising and further preparations for the real world experiments. All systems are now ready for starting experiments within October. - The 2-finger Scape setup has been used to form a baseline to compare further results to. A video showing the...

The last two months have shown a slow continuation of the previous joint work on the project. A significant part of our work in this period was focused on preparations for Automatica. 1) Automatica 2012: We set up the hardware system necessary for our appearance at Automatica and modified the necessary software to fit that...

During the last two months the consortium has been performing first real world experiments and further work on our simulation and learning methods has been performed. 1) After further preparations for the real world experiments in the SCAPE 2-finger setup were accomplished we performed a larger batch of real world...

During the last two months the consortium has been performing further real world experiments with the first application of learning methods. Further work on our simulations and evaluations of those has been performed. 1) A new sampling strategy was developed and implemented. We used the new method to do an analysis for the...

During the last two months we have been performing further experiments to evaluate our priority adjustment methods. Further work was also done on our dynamic simulation methods. 1) Experiments with suction cup setup: We have performed extensive experiments with a suction cup setup. Initially we performed a baseline with...