The ever increasing amount of space debris poses great risks for the aerospace industry. Especially collision of two high mass resident space objects (RSOs) could greatly complicate and impede operations of existing satellites and future spacecraft launches. Removing such objects from functional orb…

To carry out robotic tasks in the real world it is often required to know the 6D pose of an object. A big hurdle here is that the pose might be ambiguous because some objects are or appear symmetric. There is already a great variety of existing models for pose estimation with very diverse approaches…

Application of Inverse Kinematics(IK) prediction is on multi-folds from robotics, computer graphics, and video games, while recently being used in protein chain prediction and rehabilitation physiology. Although there are multiple methods to solve and predict IK, they are very less likely to generat…

Planning is an essential element of effective autonomous robot operation. Planning improves robot operation performance by providing an optimized action schedule based on optimization criteria such as time, energy or local restrictions. One step further is the usage of multi-robot teams which allows…

Navigation in indoor environments often faces the problem of lacking a reliable global reference frame due to non availability of  satellite-based localization and  remains an open area to research.    In project ROBDEKON, there are multiple robots used to do  decontami…

Traditional industrial robot arms are widely used in today's manufacturing processes. They are very precise and versatile. However, due to their weight, their use cases are very limited in mobile applications, aerospace or human-machine interaction. The development of lightweight manipulators is the…

Zum Lernen von Roboterverhalten mithilfe von Reinforcement Learning oder evolutionären Algorithmen sind viele Ausführungen notwendig. Hauptsächlich werden diese in einer Simulation vorgenommen, um schneller und effizienter Evaluierungen durchzuführen. Ein Problem bei dieser Vorgehensweise ist die Üb…

Kolloquium: Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) have developed over the last decades into one of the most important technological research platforms for marine/ocean exploration. Increased advancements in this area have lead to more robust, precise and intelligent hardware and software soluti…

Im Rahmen des Projekts ROBDEKON befasst sich das DFKI mit der Entwicklung eines autonom agierenden Schreitbaggers. Dieser soll in Zukunft eigenständig seine Umwelt sowohl manipulieren, als auch sich in dieser frei bewegen können. Für die Lokomotion des Systems ist der Manipulator ebenfalls mit einzu…

As part of the Horizon 2020 operational grants, DFKI is developing collaborative robotics to explore and map lunar lava tubes. These tubes are accessible via collapsed ceilings, which allow orbital cameras to observe the openings. However, little is known about the interior structure and morphology …