Interaction of robots with the real world requires making and breaking multiple contacts with the environment, either for robot balancing and locomotion or for grasping and manipulation of objects. Planning and control issues for such interactions will be discussed during the talk. Design tools and …

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…

Ziel des Dissertationsvorhabens ist die Weiterentwicklung mobiler Leichtbauroboter hin zu einem Assistenzroboter, der im Produktionsumfeld sicher mit Menschen kooperiert. Dabei sollen die Planung und Steuerung der Roboterbewegungen mit Methoden des maschinellen Lernens und der künstlichen Intelligen…

This Brown Bag Talk presents the current state of work in the hardware and software boards. The general goal of these two newly formed groups is to increase the development quality and reduce the risk of double developments without blocking cutting edge research. Both disciplines of hardware and s…

Garbage and waste disposal is one of the biggest challenges currently faced by mankind. Proper waste disposal and recycling is a must in any sustainable community, and in many coastal areas there is significant water pollution in the form of floating or submerged garbage. This is called marine debri…

Searching the intranet with an Open Source solution.

1. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ralf Möller, Bielefeld University Titel: Holistic Visual Homing Methods Abstract: Holistic methods for robot visual homing are an alternative to the ubiquitous feature-based methods. The presentation gives an overview of the so far most successful class of holistic homing methods…

Zusammenfassung: Exoskelette können einerseits der Rehabilitation andererseits der Leistungssteigerung dienen. Die Auswahl und Auslegung der verwendeten Kinematik entscheidet über die Funktionsweise und Leistungsfähigkeit eines Exoskeletts. Die Erweiterung der meist verwendeten rein seriellen Kinem…

As full-fledged driving simulation software for the evaluation of automotive applications is high in price and low cost simulators often lack of extensibility, OpenDS was initiated to provide a basic simulation toolkit to the researcher community. The development of the open-source driving simulator…

The following work will be presented at 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) as part of my PhD work on adaptive localization and mapping. Since early in robotics the performance of odometry techniques is an open research problem in mobile robots. This is due to its di…