ROSA developed and evaluated a concept for the automated sorting of municipal bulk wastes and other large and heavy wastes (e.g. construction wastes). This concept will be the basis for a more efficient sorting of bulky wastes and a better resource recovery in this sector.

The Intelligent Mobility project started in 2009 to develop a complete outdoor navigation layer for space exploration. Todays talk will outline the main research directions of the project, detail the architecture that iMoby developed and present the current project results.

Footwear industry in Europe is one of the most important sectors in terms of the number of people employed. A large part of the production of such shoes is still handcrafted. One of the main difficulties to automate this area is the high number of products variants due to a large number of models, s…

Aim of the project iStruct is the development of a robotic system as well as of biologically inspired structural components which, if applied on the robotic system, effectively improve the locomotion and mobility characteristics. In order to achieve this goal, an improved perception of the environme…

In this talk we will present an efficient approach to path planning for multiple agents during large-scale map deformation (ie. during SLAM). The problem of planning using dense data during large-scale map deformation is addressed by using a hybrid metric-topological planner that maintains locally c…

The Intelligent Integration of Electric Mobility project covers the acquisition, organization and processing of data from electric mobility sources such as run-time recordings of electric cars. Such data is at present mainly collected by the conduction of different fleet trials as from individual t…

In this Brown-Bag-Talk we will present the current state of the SeeGrip project from the mechanical perspective as well as the current work on the sensor processing. The goal of the SeeGrip project is the development of an underwater manipulator which is able to perform form- and force-closed objec…

In the project Virtual Crater, a real-time capable virtual lunar testbed to plan, program and evaluate missions of lunar surface exploration is developed. It also supports the presentation of new development concepts. An effective simulation framework to optimize system parameters by precisely model…

The marion project aims to automate the working processes in the intra-logistics and agriculture areas through the collaboration of autonomous vehicles. It focuses on enabling motion and process planning for mobile machines and groups of machines. The two use cases of intralogistic and infield-trans…

The project Semantic Product Memory (SemProM) aimed at introducing a RFID-based Digital Product Memory (DPM) for everyday items. In this framework, DFKI-RIC developed two robots (Mr. SemProM and AILA) which use the information obtained from the DPM for the automatic manipulation of heterogenous prod…