7 accepted papers
While in the past industrial robots were strictly separated from humans, today robots serve humans in a variety of industrial applications that also involve close or even physical human-robot interaction. Hereby, safety is of utmost importance and thus, the design of the control system needs to ensu…
While in the past industrial robots were strictly separated from humans, today robots serve humans in a variety of industrial applications that also involve close or even physical human-robot interaction. Hereby, safety is of utmost importance and thus, the design of the control system needs to ensu
Rescue missions in mountain environments are hardly achievable by standard legged robots—because of the high slopes—or by flying robots—because of limited payload capacity. We present a concept for a rope-aided climbing robot which can negotiate up-to-vertical slopes and carry heavy payloads. The ro…
Enhancing transparency of a teleoperation system by increasing the command-following bandwidth has not received lots of attention so far. This is considered a challenging task since in a teleoperation system the command-following bandwidth of the slave robot motion controller cannot be increased wit…
In manipulation tasks interaction forces are often decomposed to be able to control robustness-reflective and accelerating forces separately. While this decomposition is typically performed for the synthesis of interaction forces to be applied for example in the context of robotic grasping, less att
Giving robots the ability to classify surface textures requires appropriate sensors and algorithms. Inspired by the biology of human tactile perception, we implement a neurorobotic texture classifier with a recurrent spiking neural network, using a novel semisupervised approach for classifying dynam
While collision detection and contact-related injury reduction in physical human-robot interaction has been studied intensively, safety issues in physical human-robot collaboration (pHRC) with continuous coupling of human and robot(s) has received little attention so far. We develop an energy monito