A message from the ECHORD coordinator Alois Knoll

Current body shops offer repairing and painting services for damaged cars/bikes. For this purpose, they boast modern equipment, among which traction, hydraulic and/or pneumatic benches, equipped with universal templates, through which body parts, chassis, axles and bridges are straightened out. Once the component is repaired,...

InterAID - Interactive Mobile Manipulators for Advanced Industrial Diagnostics The main goal of InterAID is to demonstrate the feasibility of applying mobile robots with manipulation...

ContainerBot - Stochastic impact-triggered mobile manipulation for fast cycle time unloading of variable-sized boxes from unordered piles The ContainerBot experiment looks at new ways...

TRAFCON -Traffic Control of AGVs in Automatic Warehouses Since their introduction in the 1950s, Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) have been being used more and more in manufacturing...

KANMAN - KAN ban integrated, magnetic orientated modular mobile MANipulator The Kanban system is a widely used production control method for JIT (just-in-time) production. It is often...

dimRob - Robotics on construction site - dimensional tolerance handling The dimRob experiment aims to examine and demonstrate strategies for handling imprecision and tolerances in...

GOP - Generating optimal paths for industrial and humanoid robots in complex environments The generation of the best possible path that does not violate any constraints imposed by...

SprayBot - a Robotic Spray Booth for the Automatic Painting of Bodyworks Current body shops offer repairing and painting services for damaged cars/bikes. For this purpose, they boast...

EduFill - Filling the educational gap in service robotics The EduFill-Experiment aims at bringing latest research results in mobile robots and manipulation form the laboratory to the real...