The goal of DLRs research is to enable a wholistic perception of robotic systems using the two predominant robot senses vision and tactility. Perception and cognition are elementary components for tele-operated, assistance and autonomous robot systems, due to the fact that they enable reactive behav…

In classical industrial robotics, robots are concealed within structured and well-known environments performing highly-repetitive tasks. In contrast, current robotic applications require more direct interaction with humans, cooperating with them to achieve a common task and entering home scenarios. …

On-going European developments in Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) sensors sponsored significantly by the European Space Agency (ESA) offer a suitable level of performance for spacecrafts. Solid-state technology offers mechanical robustness, with low power consumption, mass and size, which ar…

Space robotics is becoming more and more important in recent years. Missions and situations that can be too risky for humans are well suited for robotic agents. However, autonomous manipulation and navigation in robotic systems is not yet advanced enough to deal with complex situations in space miss…

Robust pipeline tracking is critical for AUV technology to succeed in the commercial sector. To address this topic an internal project was started to enhance the existing AUV AVALON to be capable of tracking and following pipelines in shallow water. This talk will give a brief overview of this proje…

By no doubt, the problem of inverse kinematics is the most important part of studying the motion of mechanical systems. In this article, a mathematical solution to the problem of inverse kinematics in a mechanical manipulator is introduced, developed and generalized for various conventions of repres…

Robert Böhme is the leader of the "Part-Time Scientists", one of the participating teams of the "Google Lunar X-Prize". The "Lunar X-Prize" is an international challenge to develop and operate a real mission to land a rover on the moon. Arrived to the surface of the moon the rover is supposed to acc…

Die Schifffahrt gilt technologisch als nicht progressiv und der Tradition verpflichtet. Der Vortrag bietet einen Streifzug durch die Welt des Seetransports an Bord, und an Land. Eine Kurzvorstellung der Kernprozesse soll die Möglichkeit zur Diskussion über vorhandene Automatisierungspotenziale eröff…

The I4Copter (quadrocopter) project started as an evaluation and educational platform for application domains for which it is intended to be a creditable demonstrator for safety-critical mission scenarios. Beyond computer science, a quadrocopter is a physically highly complex system and the buildin…

In this talk some of the modular robots we have developed in cooperation with the TAMS group from the University of Hamburg are shown and live demonstrations will be performed. Our research is focused on the locomotion capabilities of the 1D topology modular robots, like caterpillar, snakes and so o…