7 accepted papers
Robot behavior designers commonly select one method – e.g. A* or RRT – that is assumed to have the appropriate trade-off for a given domain between computational load, computation time, and the quality of the result of the method. We propose <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xml
Mobile manipulation tasks in unstructured environments remain challenging for autonomous robots. The need to employ a diverse set of software and hardware components to solve the various subtasks inevitably increases system complexity. Knowledge exchange among such diverse components renders them hi
Shared control enables users with motor impairments to control high-dimensional assistive robots with low-dimensional user interfaces. The challenge is to simultaneously 1) provide support for completing daily living tasks 2) enable sufficient freedom of movement to foster user empowerment 3) ensure
Heterogeneous teams of multiple mobile robots will be important for future scientific explorations of extraterrestrial surfaces or hazardous areas. Mission operation in such harsh, unknown environments poses diverse challenges. Robots need to cooperate autonomously due to the large network latency t…
Teams of mobile robots will play a crucial role in future missions to explore the surfaces of extraterrestrial bodies. Setting up infrastructure and taking scientific samples are expensive tasks when operating in distant, challenging, and unknown environments. In contrast to current single-robot spa
Robot task programming often leads to inefficient plans, as opportunities for parallelization and precomputation are usually not exploited by the programmer. This inefficiency is often especially obvious in mobile manipulation, where path planning and pose estimation algorithms are time-consuming op
Robotic tasks are becoming increasingly complex, and with this also the robotic systems. This requires new tools to manage this complexity and to orchestrate the systems to fulfill demanding autonomous tasks. For this purpose, we developed a new graphical tool targeting at the creation and execution…