Robots have been a subject of research for almost half a century. In order to make robots more versatile they must be able to operate in a semi-structured work place where unforeseen events occur and where sensor data...
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Robots have been a subject of research for almost half a century. In order to make robots more versatile they must be able to operate in a semi-structured work place where unforeseen events occur and where sensor data are incomplete. An entire research community has been working on this problem and many unique autonomous and so-called intelligent robots have been conceived and built. Most of these efforts are concerned with robots that operate in the macroworld where they take on chores that could also be handled by humans. However, there is the macroworld in which manipulation and handling tasks are very difficult and for which a human has no tools and where the work area is so small that fine manual manipulation is almost impossible. This paper is concerned with autonomous robots that can operate in a microworld, where microassembly operations, microsurgery or integrated circuit testing and repair is done. For independent operations, these robots need special sensors and an efficient computer architecture that hosts the planner and executor. There are also special drive systems and effecters necessary for micromotions and micromanipulations, respectively. An attempt is made to describe these components and the problems encountered in configuring them to a microrobot. As an example of advanced microrobots, the design and functions of several autonomous microrobots of the University of Karlsruhe are shown;they employ different locomotion and subject handling principles. The paper also includes a discussion of the typical operating problems caused by the microworld and of future research that has to be done to conceive and build efficient microrobots.
This paper discusses the significance of communication between individual agents that are embedded into learning Multi-Agent systems. For several learning tasks occurring within a Multi-Agent System, communication act...
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In this paper we present a method for virtual 3D cutting operations in 3D tomographic data. When cutting interactively the user specifies a serie of 3D cutting points and correponding cut depths on the surface of the ...
Simulations of static and dynamic aspects of the functionality of the human body are getting more important as the complexity of operations increases. The preoperative planning of maxillofacial operations like the rep...
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While programming a telemanipulator the operator often uses special input devices to generate trajectories, which are to difficult for automatic planers. Though the trajectories are evaluated by a simulation and shown...
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Mobile microrobots, which are capable of performing microscopic motions, have become a subject of great interest all over the world, They have the potential to be used for a variety of applications: in industry for as...
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Mobile microrobots, which are capable of performing microscopic motions, have become a subject of great interest all over the world, They have the potential to be used for a variety of applications: in industry for assembly of microsystems or for the testing of silicon chips;in medicine for handling biological cells, etc. A new model of an automated micromanipulation station, which includes piezoelectric microrobots is now being built by an interdisciplinary research group at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, This paper describes a sensor system and a powerful tailorable computer for controlling the micromanipulation station.
This paper describes results of the ESPRIT project HIMAC (Hierarchical Management and Control in Manufacturing systems). Within this project, several algorithms were developed and implemented: The planning algorithm c...
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This paper describes results of the ESPRIT project HIMAC (Hierarchical Management and Control in Manufacturing systems). Within this project, several algorithms were developed and implemented: The planning algorithm concerns the minimization of the number of tools in a manufacturing system. The second algorithm is used for the definition of part families and resource groups. Regarding scheduling, an existing algorithm has been adapted and further improved to be applicable to the HIMAC specific representation. The implementation of the algorithms is based on the HIMAC theory, hence they use a common representation of a manufacturing system.
Enterprise models are used to support the solution of several organizational tasks. Although most of the existing modelling concepts were developed under the consideration of the aspect of process orientation, no meth...
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Enterprise models are used to support the solution of several organizational tasks. Although most of the existing modelling concepts were developed under the consideration of the aspect of process orientation, no methods exist which would prevent the user from creating a function oriented model. Beside this, once created models often cannot be reused for new tasks because the view on the enterprise described in the existing model does not correspond to the actual requirements. In the first part of this paper, a new approach is described, which helps to overcome these problems. In the second part, an optimization approach for the modelled process is proposed.
This paper describes the general problem of manufacturing, discusses the impact and consequences of the growing internationalisation of markets and gives an overview of the trends in key technologies of manufacturing ...
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This paper describes the general problem of manufacturing, discusses the impact and consequences of the growing internationalisation of markets and gives an overview of the trends in key technologies of manufacturing systems. Furthermore, the need for models to support the design and reorganisation of CIM systems and Virtual Factories is discussed. Finally, particular approaches to solve such problems are introduced.
Within the last years the programming by demonstration (PbD) programming methodology gained more and more attention in robotics. However, a high quality way of human-robot interaction is crucial for a successful appli...
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Within the last years the programming by demonstration (PbD) programming methodology gained more and more attention in robotics. However, a high quality way of human-robot interaction is crucial for a successful application of the PbD methodology in robotics. Hypotheses derived from the programming system, and control knowledge included in a generated robot program has to be checked back with and to be verified by the user in order to avoid potentially harmful errors that lead to faulty code. This paper describes a method for user-robot interaction that is based on 3D-icons and supports and facilitates the programming process in a robot programming by demonstration system significantly.
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