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ImRoNet - Internetbasierte multimediale/multimodale Nutzerschnittstellen zur Teleoperation von Robotern

The project ImRoNet focused on human-machine-interaction, especially with teleoperated robots.

Neobotix provided a mobile platform MP-M470 which was equipped with an additional computer, an arm and unique sensor system.
A mobile manipulator MM-500 was also used. This robot had a panel-PC, made by Beckhoff, attached to its arm and is meant to make critical maintenance work easier by providing supporting information via augmented reality.

The final presentation of this project was held at the Automatica 2010. You can find a Video of this in our download area.

INDIGO - Interaction with Personality and Dialogue Enabled Robots

In the INDIGO-Project a mobile robot has been developed, that is capable of natural interaction with humans.

During the project which ran from February 2007 until February 2010 Neobotix cooperated with several partners from all over the world. Besides the Albert-Ludwig Universität Freiburg also the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas, the University of Edinburgh, the University of Geneva, the Acapela Group from Belgium and the american Hanson Robotics contributed to the project's success.

Neobotix provided a mobile robot of type ME-470 which was equipped with a special robotic head from hanson robotics.
Together with specially adjusted cameras and microphones and the highly capable software of the other partners it is now possible to interact with this robot like never before.

DESIRE

A large number of companies and research institutes was cooperating for four years to unite the different state-of-the-art modules that have been developed in the field of robotics. The Desire project has build a platform that contains all these modules.

Its basic idea distinguished Desire from other projects. Desire was not meant to achieve a quantum leap in a specialised field of research or solve a single task but to combine all the different modules that have been developed separately and to make them reliable for everyday use.
After the end of this project, the achieved knowledge and techniques will be used by other research projects as a starting point.

Neobotix built the omnidirectional platform and furthermore designed and realised the robot's complete body as well as the carbon fibre cover.

(c) Fraunhofer IPA 2008

rob@work 2

The new rob@work 2 is working at the Fraunhofer IPAsince July 2008. This robot belongs to the follow-up research project of the rob@work which was also based on a mobile platform from Neobotix (see below).

The rob@work 2 is built from a version 3 MP-L655 and offers more functions and several improvements in a more compact and appealing design. A second laser scanner now enables the robot to permanently monitor its whole environment without blind spots.
A modern light weight robot arm from Schunk is mounted onto the new platform. This 7-DOF arm is extremely agile and already contains all the required electronics. Without the big electric control cabinet required by older manipulators there is more space on the platform's cargo area to store objects or to mount other application-specific components.

(c) Fraunhofer IPA 2008

Care-O-Bot 3

Neobotix engineered and built the omnidirectional platform for the Care-O-Bot 3 which has been presented to public in June 2008. As supplier for the Fraunhofer IPA neobotix also build the basic, inner mechanics and electrical system of the robot's body.

The two-axis drives have been developed especially for the IPA and provide almost unlimited movements in the plane due the possibility of rotating every wheel independendly around its vertical axis. A lithium ion battery provides good runtimes despite the large number of drives and computers aboard.

Some other important features are the flexible, soft skin of the robot's movable body and the sensor head with stereo and 3D-camera systems, which can be pointed both forward and backwards. A light weight arm from Schunk with a three finger hand can be used for efficient interaction with the environment.

In the next years the Care-O-Bot 3 will be continously under development to solve both known and new tasks in domestic service robotics.

Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique - ANSO

The objective of the ANSO-project, in which the Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique is working, is to create a software platform for multimedia networks. Additionally the possibilities for physical interactions via the network will be improved.

The mobile robot that was built for this project consists of a mobile platform MP-M470 and a 6 DOF manipulator of type ARM from Exact Dynamics.

With this combination the ARM-manipulator, which was originally designed to be mounted on electrical wheel chairs, now can be used under completely new conditions.

In the download section you will find a video of the robot.

ASSISTOR

Since 2003 Neobotix has been participating in the joint research project ASSISTOR sponsored by the BMBF.

In the context of mechatronics and robotics the project had the following objectives:

Development of robust mechatronic systems for a direct man-machine interaction
Development of configurable sensor and control systems for a safe man-machine cooperation
Working out the basics for the approval and standardization of robots in a man-machine interaction
Building up of demonstrators for testing usability and robustness

Demonstrators are chosen to show the wide range of possible applications such as

Common industrial manipulators in direct cooperation with humans for assembly and processing
Mobile platforms with a manipulator arm in overlapping man-machine workspaces for transportation and process support

The joint research project was carried out by Fraunhofer IPA, ELAN, Reis Robotics, Schunk, Sick AG and Vision&Control.

Neobotix presented the results of its work in the field of mobile robotics with a robot arm in November of 2005.

MORPHA

The core-idea of the project MORPHA was to equip intelligent mechatronic systems, particularly robot assistants or service robots, with the ability to communicate, interact and collaborate with human users in a natural and intuitive way. http://www.morpha.de

The use of robots in household applications is driven by different motivations. One of them is the aspect of comfort. More important, however, it is the increasing number of households with sick, disabled or aged people that supports the necessity of the application of mobile robots for physical assistance activities in households. Robots are expected to work in the direct living surroundings of people. For this reason, the most natural interaction between people and machines is of the utmost importance.

A robot assistant will be able to carry out simple household activities partly in interaction with people. The activities could include such tasks as, for example, transportation, cleaning or laying a table. The robot has to move in different rooms within an apartment without colliding with people or furniture.

The Fraunhofer IPA uses a MP-M470 platform with a RA-6A as a demonstrator.

More information on Care-O-Bot and Care-O-Bot 2 at http://www.care-o-bot.de

Fraunhofer IPA - MaVo

The objective of the project 'Marktorientierte Vorlaufforschung (MaVo)' is the development of methods and products that ensure robustness and flexibility based on artificial intelligence. Moreover, all solutions pursue the objective of reducing unit costs.

The main task of an intelligent production line includes the development of intelligent models for the diagnosis of the state of machines and processes. Intelligent sensors are used to collect data about the current situation.

The priority objective of this vision is a system control that is able to constantly monitor the state of the process and the system and to optimize its activities according to the diagnosed state.

Fraunhofer IPA uses our MobileArm (platform MP-L655 with a Mitsubishi PA-10 manipulator) as a demonstrator for this project. The project rob@work is part of the MaVo project. rob@work (PDF)