Robotic systems are not only becoming increasingly complex, but so are the environments for which they are being built. While this poses various challenges for hardware design, the greater difficulties lie in devising appropriate control structures to move robots in these environments and creating a…
The talk gives an overview of the topic of utilizing magnetic field distortions for robotic navigation as it was elaborated in the corresponding PhD thesis. The work comprehensively illuminates the various aspects that are relevant in this context, for example the characteristics of magnetic field e…
While serial robots are known for their versatility in applications, larger workspace, simpler modeling and control, they have certain disadvantages like limited precision, lower stiffness and poor dynamic characteristics in general. A parallel robot can offer higher stiffness, speed, accuracy and p…
The agility and dexterity of robotic platforms places increasing demands on understanding and computing their intrinsic and interaction dynamics for design, analysis, control and autonomy. However, a major impediment has been the complexity of these dynamics for moderate to large degree of freedom r…
Reconfigurable robots can physically merge and form new types of composite systems. This ability leads to additional degrees of freedom for robot operations especially when dynamically composed robotic systems offer capabilities that none of the individual systems have. Research in the area of recon…
The upcoming C++20 standard, which is feature complete since February 2019, will be the largest update to the C++ programming language since C++11 and is expected to fundamentally change the way we think about and write programs in C++. The talk will give an overview of major language constructs int…
This talk gives a report on field tests organized by DFKI RIC in Morocco during November and December 2018. The field tests were part of the EU project "FACILITATORS", in which DFKI was responsible for the provision of infrastructure to test and validate software and hardware that had been…
This Brown Bag Talk presents the current state of work of the software-board.
The general goal of this group is to increase the development quality and reduce the risk of double developments without blocking cutting edge research.
The details of the work will be presented and questions wil…
