A message from the ECHORD coordinator Alois Knoll

In November and December the focus lay on tasks 4 and 5 for the IPR, in which gesture and action recognition and path planning was to be incorporated into the framework. For task 4, the conceptual design of the gesture based interaction was determined and two gesture classes were identified. In task 5 especially the path...

In January and February, the work was focused on the development of probabilistic methods for the gesture based human robot interaction (tasks 4), and the task planning and task dependent adaption of robot motion planning (task 5). Also the deliverables 2.1 and 2.2 were completed. For the hand gesture analysis, a...

In March and April, the work was focused on the further development of the command gesture approach and the task planning module. Also, the ideas for the robust command gesture classification were submitted as a paper at a workshop at the Robotics: Science and Systems conference in Berlin. The previous command...

In May and June, the work was focused on the design and implementation of a movement gesture concept and corresponding task planning developments. Moreover an object recognition scheme was implemented for seamless gesture based object selection. Also, the ideas for the two stage gesture classification approach...

For learning object models, we made initial scan alignment more robust by adapting the point-pair feature object detection and pose estimation method of Papazov et al. (ACCV 2010). We only allow transformations that are close to the expected ones in the RANSAC step. For active object perception, we extended the simulation...

We conducted experiments where the robot has to actively perceive partially occluded objects which showed that considering object detection results when planning the next view can help finding more objects. We integrated the components developed in ActReMa into a bin-picking application, performed by the cognitive service...

Study results In the last two months our main focus was on analyzing the data that we collected with our FlexIRob system during the user study on physical human robot interaction at Harting. We were able to evaluate the questionnaire and got first insights about the perception of our system by potential co-workers....

In May and June the work was focused on the training of the classifier for the body part detection, and the build-up of the multi-camera setup including the implementation of the calibration and registration step. Unfortunately the training of the classifier did not deliver the expected results, so that the existing approach...

An unmanned aerial vehicle has a high number of electronics onboard. The selection of all the components is a hard task because the playload is limited. We need to select the more efficient and light of each desirable component. Six motors were installed on the aircraft to increase the playload. A latest model laser sensor...

As part of our dissemination activities we organized the Workshop “Technology Monitoring: Robotics today and tomorrow – Technology towards Assistive Automation”. It was part of the OWL MASCHINENBAU Academy. OWL MASCHINENBAU is a network of innovation targeting to strengthen the economic and technological power of the regional...