Multi-agent teams have been studied over many years and provided fundamental approaches. Yet, for the class of modular, reconfigurable robots research has so far focused on highly granular, homogeneous systems capable of solving trivial tasks. The work presented here intends to extend existing work …

Bone mineral content decreases as a consequence of microgravity and immobilization. Harold Frost introduced the mechanostat theory, following which the bone adapts to the strain it is subjected to. A change in forces applied to the bone would then constitute the stimulus that leads to either bone re…

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Funktionale Sicherheit - nach IEC 61508 - gewährleistet ein für den Betroffenen - Üblicherweise der Auftraggeber bzw. Die Gesellschaft - vertretbares Risiko bei E/E/PE Systemen(*) . Funktionale Sicherheit findet hauptsächlich Anwendung in der Entwicklung von Produkten, die zu folgenden Schäden führe…

For robots working in real world environments, especially in the underwater area, it is necessary to achieve robust recognition and 6D pose estimation of freely standing movable objects using tactile sensors. Until now this problem remains unsolved due to the limited capability of the available tact…

Marc Hildebrandt and Patrick Paranhos will give a summary about their visit to Brazil inside the Tractebel-Project. Additional to information about the ROV-based inspection of a hydroelectric power plant in the Amazon rain forest, they will give an overview about possible future project partnerships…

Existing pattern recognition approaches can be roughly divided into two categories. The first ones (scientific methods) are very generic and methodologically advanced, but they feature limited robustness in real-world environments and, therefore, cannot be applied in concrete application domains wit…

There exists ample evidence that the brain performs sensory prediction for motor control and perception. Since many species rely heavily on vision, sensory prediction in the visual domain is of special interest for computational modeling. Two studies on this topic will be presented. In the first stu…

This will be a short presentation of the basic concept of my PhD thesis. Motivated by the problems arising in adaptive classification of time series data. The goal is to use mathematical means for - modeling and comparing a group of classifiers - defining and finding sparse classifiers for multi-s…

The design of a planetary rover is a complex and concurrent engineering process which involves several iterations and phases presenting many challenges during the whole process . The design is driven by mission requirements and environmental constraints that affect the final rover concept. The local…