This talk introduces the task to autonomously navigate, self locate and generate a map with an autonomous underwater vehicle. The first part of the talk will show known methods for navigation, mapping and self localization of AUVs and present their advantages and problems. The idea to handle the kno…

This talk introduces the task of planning a sufficent path for a walking robot which has to overcome a steep crater wall (36 degrees) in lunar environments. In the first part, the general shapes of lunar crates will be explained. Afterwards, problems which arise by such crater shapes will be discu…

This talk deals with the question of how to produce and use knowledge to extend the reactive PCR-Approach for the locomotion of walking machines with higher level deleberative behaviours that could enable the robot to move with caution. At first the mission and the environmental conditions in connec…

In a near future, teams of heterogeneous robots are expected to increase capabilities, benefits and robustness of a whole range of applications that require coordination. Examples include lunar exploration, search and rescue, construction sites, coordinated mapping. The heterogeneity of agents can b…

Die Benutzerverwaltung ist eine elementare IT-Administrations-Aufgabe, von der viele weitere Dienste abhängig sind. Am Beispiel des DFKI Robotik Labors Bremen wird das Konzept der systemübergreifenden Benutzerverwaltung vorgestellt. Nach der allgemeinen Einführung in die Benutzerverwaltung von heter…

This talk deals with questions about sensomotor integration in humans and the usability of EEG data in robotics. Besides discussing the design of experiments regarding data acqusition and processing, we try to give answers to some question, i.e.: How to deduce ?biological? principles of sensomotor i…

For a multi-robot-system it is an essential requirement that the path planning of the individual robots are somehow coordinated in order to avoid collisions, minimize path lengths or to avoid deadlock situations. Path planning in the robotic context means to calculate the optimal route from the curr…

The underwater enviroment imposes some new aspects and challenges to the field of computer vision. Some of these challenges are, e.g., image distortions caused by refraction and floating particles and a limited visibility range due to absorption and diffusion. In the case of visual servoing those ef…

Lebewesen sind charakterisiert durch Selbstherstellung und Selbsterhaltung (SS)? dies macht ihre Autonomie aus. Selbstbewertung ist die Fähigkeit, die Interaktion mit der Umwelt so zu gestalten, dass SS (und schließlich eine erfolgreiche Fortpflanzung) gesichert werden. Dabei bewertet das System all…

Mit der Verfügbarkeit von ferngelenkten und autonomen Unterwasserfahrzeugen konnten in den vergangenen Jahren zahlreiche neue wissenschaftliche Fragestellungen in der Tiefseeforschung angegangen werden. Anhand von ausgewählten Fallbeispielen werden bisherige Einsätze von verschiedenen Gerätetypen (R…