Forschung und Lehre der Humanoiden Robotik an der Beuth Hochschule für Technik Berlin
An der Beuth Hochschule für Technik Berlin – ab Oktober mit dem neuen Namen Berliner Hochschule für Technik BHT – gibt es verstärkte Anstrengungen zur Erforschung und der Lehre der Humanoiden Robotik. Im Jahr 2018 wurde an der Hochschule der gleichnamige Ingenieur-Studiengang eingeführt, welcher deutschlandweit einzigartig und stark projektbasiert ausgerichtet ist. Weiterhin haben sich im vergangenen Jahr 15 Professoren und Professorinnen der Hochschule zum transdisziplinären Forschungsverbund HARMONIK „Humanoide Robotik und Mensch-Technik-Interaktion“ zusammengeschlossen, in dessen Fokus die Untersuchung einer menschzentrierten, selbstbestimmten sowie zuverlässigen und informationssicheren Interaktion zwischen Menschen und neuartigen humanoiden Roboter-Assistenzsystemen steht. Der Vortrag soll einen Überblick über diese Anstrengungen der Hochschule im Bereich der Humanoiden Robotik geben, insbesondere auch beispielhaft Forschungen und Roboter-Plattformen der beteiligten Professoren vorstellen. Der Vortrag beleuchtet zudem eigene Forschungsarbeiten zu Themen der Soft-Robotik und sogenannten variablen Steifigkeitsantrieben sowie Mensch-Roboter-Interaktion und wie diese Eingang in die Lehre finden.
Research and education of humanoid robotics at the Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin
Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin – from October under its new name Berliner Hochschule für Technik BHT – is increasing its efforts in research and education of humanoid robotics. In 2018, the university introduced the engineering degree program “humanoid robotics”, which is unique in Germany and has a strong project-based focus. Furthermore, 15 professors at the university joined forces last year to form the transdisciplinary research network HARMONIK "Humanoid Robotics and Human-Technology Interaction", which focuses on the investigation of a human-centred, self-determined as well as reliable and information-safe interaction between humans and novel humanoid robot assistance systems. The talk will give an overview of these efforts in the field of humanoid robotics and will in particular present also exemplary research and robotic platforms of the involved researchers. The talk will also highlight my own research on topics related to soft robotics and so-called variable stiffness drives as well as human-robot interaction and how this research is finding its way into teaching.
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Hannes Höppner is Humanoid Robotics Professor at Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin since October 2019. From 2018 to 2019 he was group leader of sports technology development at the Institute of Applied Training Science IAT in Leipzig. At IAT he mainly focussed on the development and application of automatic joint tracking methods and automatic following via drones for athletes, as well as sport specific measurement setups. Between 2009 and 2018, he was scientific researcher at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) – Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics. He was organization chair of the “Summer School on Impedance” in 2011 and the "Summer School on Soft Manipulation" in 2017 on Frauenchiemsee, Germany. His research interests include the development of continuous and perturbation-based methods for measuring intrinsic human stiffness hand and arm characteristics, the teleoperation of it to robotic systems and the design of variable stiffness actuators for robotic arms and hands. Moreover, he focused on the development of a safety system for safe human-robot collaboration and won the KUKA Innovation Award 2017. Between 2015 and 2018 he was principle investigator at DLR for the EU project soma and won together with his colleagues the DLR Idea Award 2018 for the development of a novel soft robotic hand.