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The experiment started working towards the second milestone, a two-robot grasp of a box. The idea is that both robots pick boxes independently, until one encounters a too heavy box, in which case it waits until the other robot assists it in picking it up. The two challenges are to have the robots move without colliding into...
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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...
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Resaerch efforts towards the hyper modular PKM with networked control and fast external sensing progresses as planned. New electronic modules have been designed for back-lash elimination with integrated dual-motor control. The key mechanical components (such as ball-joints) are being enhanced for increased robustness and...
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The ContainerBot experiment has completed its first major milestone experiment. A workcell was built which contains one the left side of the robot a corner with a pile of different boxes and on the right hand side a drop-off slope. The robot could clean up the pile of boxes of different shapes and weights and move them to a...
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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...
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At the end of this month the project participants have finished both the processing of Task 4 and Task 5. Furthermore, in this reporting period we started the work on Task 6 to simultaneously test the developed algorithms under operating conditions.
Besides the receiving of the current robot’s state, we also enabled the...
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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...
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The flexprass experiment shall prove feasibility of combining lightweight desktop robots capable of close human-machine collaboration (Schunk) with high-precision manipulators (Fraunhofer IPT), e.g., needed for automated assembly of optical systems and lasers. Partners configured customized manipulator based on PowerCube...
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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...
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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...
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