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View article: Morphing Based Transfer of Demonstrated Surface Finishing Trajectories to Point Clouds of Similar Objects
Morphing Based Transfer of Demonstrated Surface Finishing Trajectories to Point Clouds of Similar Objects Open
View article: Generalization Ability of Neural Descriptor Fields for One-Shot 3D Mapping
Generalization Ability of Neural Descriptor Fields for One-Shot 3D Mapping Open
View article: Overcoming Challenges in Programming Human-Robot Collaboration in Flexible Manufacturing
Overcoming Challenges in Programming Human-Robot Collaboration in Flexible Manufacturing Open
View article: Enhancing Efficiency in Battery Re-Manufacturing through Human-Robot Collaboration: The BatteryLife Approach
Enhancing Efficiency in Battery Re-Manufacturing through Human-Robot Collaboration: The BatteryLife Approach Open
View article: Ensuring Kinematic Feasibility for Mobile Manipulators in Industrial Assembly: A Behavior Tree Based Approach
Ensuring Kinematic Feasibility for Mobile Manipulators in Industrial Assembly: A Behavior Tree Based Approach Open
View article: Manufacturing Line Ablation, an approach to perform reliable early prediction
Manufacturing Line Ablation, an approach to perform reliable early prediction Open
Manufacturing and assembly lines have become more and more complex over the years. One reason for this complexity is multistage manufacturing, where faults in one stage may carry forward downstream in the production line. Our goal is to fi…
View article: Enabling End-Users in Designing and Executing of Complex, Collaborative Robotic Processes
Enabling End-Users in Designing and Executing of Complex, Collaborative Robotic Processes Open
Over the last years, capabilities of robotic systems have quantitatively and qualitatively improved. But going beyond isolated robotic systems, the integration and interoperability of robotic capabilities in complex work processes remains …
View article: Lessons Learned from Human Pose Interaction in an Industrial Spatial Augmented Reality Application
Lessons Learned from Human Pose Interaction in an Industrial Spatial Augmented Reality Application Open
This paper is a technical description of a novel Augmented Reality application in the industrial domain of furniture production. In the presented case, workers suffered from high cognitive load in doing end-of-line quality inspection and i…
View article: Energy Management Simulation with Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning: An Approach to Achieve Reliability and Resilience
Energy Management Simulation with Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning: An Approach to Achieve Reliability and Resilience Open
The share of energy produced by small-scale renewable energy sources, including photovoltaic panels and wind turbines, will significantly increase in the near future. These systems will be integrated in microgrids to strengthen the indepen…
View article: Domain Adaptation With Evolved Target Objects for AI Driven Grasping
Domain Adaptation With Evolved Target Objects for AI Driven Grasping Open
The recent developments of AI and deep learning,together with increased data availability, have made noticeableprogress in the field of robotic object grasping. However, theperformance of state-of-the-art models in predicting reliablegrasp…
View article: Spatio-thermal depth correction of RGB-D sensors based on Gaussian Processes in real-time
Spatio-thermal depth correction of RGB-D sensors based on Gaussian Processes in real-time Open
This RGB-D dataset is part is part of our publication Heindl, Christoph, et al. "Spatio-thermal depth correction of RGB-D sensors based on Gaussian processes in real-time." Tenth International Conference on Machine Vision (ICMV 2017)
View article: Lessons Learned from Industrial Augmented Reality Applications
Lessons Learned from Industrial Augmented Reality Applications Open
Smart production concepts are on the way to revolutionize industrial processes. A good example is the application of Extended Reality techniques that have emerged in recent years. This paper presents six different use cases where Extended …
View article: ROBxTASK RTE - a lightweight runtime environment to implement collaborative processes across different robotic systems
ROBxTASK RTE - a lightweight runtime environment to implement collaborative processes across different robotic systems Open
In the research project ROBxTASK a platform is being developed that allows users to define robotic workflows using the visual programming language Google Blockly. Users can create custom agent code to call the skills of the robotic systems…
View article: Knowledge Based Accuracy Improvement in Programming by Demonstration of Point Based Processes
Knowledge Based Accuracy Improvement in Programming by Demonstration of Point Based Processes Open
Productivity and flexibility are antagonists with opposite goals. Until now, optimal productivity could only be achieved in fully automated inflexible serial production. Increased demand for flexibility due to individualized products e.g. …
View article: Semantic knowledge based reasoning framework for human robot collaboration
Semantic knowledge based reasoning framework for human robot collaboration Open
Human robot collaborative assemblies, where humans and robots work together, are becoming the new frontier in industrial robotics. However, the aspect of humans to easily and intuitively interact/collaborate with a robot, especially for te…
View article: Geometric Reasoning enabled One Shot Learning for Robotic Tasks
Geometric Reasoning enabled One Shot Learning for Robotic Tasks Open
Flexible robotics will be a major enabling technology for the application of robot-based automation in other than traditionally suitable automotive or electronics production with high volumes. Increased demand for flexibility due to indivi…
View article: Human and Workcell Event Recognition and Its Application Areas in Industrial Assembly
Human and Workcell Event Recognition and Its Application Areas in Industrial Assembly Open
Assistance systems in production gain increased importance for industry, to tackle the challenges of mass customization and the demographic change. Common to these systems is the need for context awareness and understanding of the state of…
View article: Panorama Image Based Code-Free Programming of Robotic Operations
Panorama Image Based Code-Free Programming of Robotic Operations Open
Increased demand for flexibility typical for most SMEs requires more flexible and skillful robots as well as improved means of interaction to simplify programming. For (semi-) automatic image-based derivation of robot programs for objects …
View article: Programming-Free Approaches for Human–Robot Collaboration in Assembly Tasks
Programming-Free Approaches for Human–Robot Collaboration in Assembly Tasks Open
View article: Towards Human and Robot Collaborative Ergonomic Handling of Long Parts with a Loose Grip
Towards Human and Robot Collaborative Ergonomic Handling of Long Parts with a Loose Grip Open
View article: Programming by Interactive Demonstration for a Human Robot Collaborative Assembly
Programming by Interactive Demonstration for a Human Robot Collaborative Assembly Open
To maintain productivity and deal with mass customization, manufacturing industries worldwide are increasingly installing collaborative robots. However, the problem of easily interacting and teaching tasks to a collaborative robot is still…
View article: Human in the loop online estimation of robotic speed limits for safe human robot collaboration
Human in the loop online estimation of robotic speed limits for safe human robot collaboration Open
Collaborative robots (CR) gained increasing attention since system costs including costs for safety measurements are smaller, they are easier to program and they are more flexible than conventional industrial robots. In order to make use o…
View article: Agent- and Skill-Based Process Interoperability for Socio-Technical Production Systems-of-Systems
Agent- and Skill-Based Process Interoperability for Socio-Technical Production Systems-of-Systems Open
View article: Metric Pose Estimation for Human-Machine Interaction Using Monocular Vision
Metric Pose Estimation for Human-Machine Interaction Using Monocular Vision Open
The rapid growth of collaborative robotics in production requires new automation technologies that take human and machine equally into account. In this work, we describe a monocular camera based system to detect human-machine interactions …
View article: Enhanced Human-Machine Interaction by Combining Proximity Sensing with Global Perception
Enhanced Human-Machine Interaction by Combining Proximity Sensing with Global Perception Open
The raise of collaborative robotics has led to wide range of sensor technologies to detect human-machine interactions: at short distances, proximity sensors detect nontactile gestures virtually occlusion-free, while at medium distances, ac…
View article: Large Area 3D Human Pose Detection Via Stereo Reconstruction in Panoramic Cameras
Large Area 3D Human Pose Detection Via Stereo Reconstruction in Panoramic Cameras Open
We propose a novel 3D human pose detector using two panoramic cameras. We show that transforming fisheye perspectives to rectilinear views allows a direct application of two-dimensional deep-learning pose estimation methods, without the ex…
View article: 3D Robot Pose Estimation from 2D Images
3D Robot Pose Estimation from 2D Images Open
This paper considers the task of locating articulated poses of multiple robots in images. Our approach simultaneously infers the number of robots in a scene, identifies joint locations and estimates sparse depth maps around joint locations…
View article: Towards Reinforcement based Learning of an Assembly Process for Human Robot Collaboration
Towards Reinforcement based Learning of an Assembly Process for Human Robot Collaboration Open
In an era of transformation in manufacturing demographics from mass production to mass customization, advances on human-robot interaction in industries has taken many forms. However, the aim of reducing the amount of programming required b…
View article: Instrumented Tool based Robot Programming - Parameterization of Screwing Process Macros
Instrumented Tool based Robot Programming - Parameterization of Screwing Process Macros Open
Programming by Demonstration (PbD), is a powerful mechanism for reducing the complexity of search space for learning. Current approaches for skill representation can be broadly divided between two trends. Low-level representations of skill…
View article: Toward an Interactive Reinforcement Based Learning Framework for Human Robot Collaborative Assembly Processes
Toward an Interactive Reinforcement Based Learning Framework for Human Robot Collaborative Assembly Processes Open
As manufacturing demographics change from mass production to mass customization, advances in human-robot interaction in industries have taken many forms. However, the topic of reducing the programming effort required by an expert using nat…