A message from the ECHORD coordinator Alois Knoll

A simple realtime software architecture has been devised to realise the manual guidance control. The architecture is composed of the following modules: a real-time UDP client that communicates with the C4Gopen server and executes the control algorithm, one or more real-time threads interfacing the client to the daq boards,...

Within December 2011 and January 2012 we have integrated the developed technologies to the mobile manipulator prototype and its evaluation. We have finished the hardware setup of the prototype, improved the magnetic sensor software and we have focused on the processing and evaluation of processing and evaluation of magnetic...

Both teams are working intensively on the realization of the components for fine-scanning and planning during fine scan. UNIBAY has completed remote RSI control of their robot and can get profiles from the laser scanner, essential prerequisites for fine scanning. Registration and calibration of the laser scanner needs to be...

The main Scientific and Research aspects, related to navigation, localization and interaction, were faced to improve the behavior of ASTRO and to prepare it for the final integration, that will take place in March.

Complementing to the prior experimentations in previous months on man-machine interaction and handling of material tolerances, current stage of the project focuses on the proof of the concept of mobility. A system is developed for self-positioning of the mobile unit through the 3D scanning of a local reference. In the...

The stereo-vision head for Nao has been delivered to DFKI by Aldebaran Robotics. DFKI started to implement the stereo-vision software that allows computing the 3D position of objects in front of the two cameras. DFKI has developed and optimized a grasping procedure that controls the motion of the hand of Nao and the global...

This is the second summary of the MUCE experiment with goal to find robust, efficient and cost effective robot solutions to clean large and complex swimming pools. During this period we continued to work with the specification documents and started on the design task. Last month we finalized the specification task and all...

Industrial co-worker scenarios require save, flexible, and efficient control of robots. The goal of MoFTaG is to transform a data-driven model-free learning method that has been recently developed for high DOF-humanoid platforms into a ready-to apply real world tool for teaching co-worker robots flexible motion. Concretely...

Cartography of the robot workspace was done and experimental measurements have been performed. Using these measurements, and after the validation of the optimization algorithm in simulation, three models were calibrated and compared in terms of their accuracy improvement and sensitivity of parameters. A more complete model...

In the last reporting period we have finished our first complete demo. In this demo, which will be visible under youtube, the user first specifies that the robot should do a feeding task. Then, the human specifies the necessary parameters through gestures: the human operator points at the SLCs containing the parts for the...