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While forestry is an important economic factor, the common methods used to estimate potential financial gains from undertaking a harvest project in Germany are usually based on heuristics and experience. Experience-based estimation methods focus on utilizing a few general statistical parameters that define the harvest operation, employing an abstract view on wood harvesting. To improve the accuracy...
In this contribution we present a formalism to combine the well-known process modeling technique based on Petri nets with the recent developments in Visual Programming for robot programming. The resulting modeling approach enables process developers and robot programmers to follow a hierarchical approach to process development and to profit from the extensive analysis techniques developed for Petri...
Although SMEs would benefit from robotic solutions in assembly, the required invests and efforts for their implementation are often too risky and costly for them. Here, the Horizon 2020 project “ReconCell” aims at developing a new type of highy-reconfigurable multi-robot assembly cell which adresses the particular needs of SMEs. At the Institute for Man- Machine Interaction (MMI), we are developing...
Due to global warming and a raising awareness of ecological implications of fossil fuel use, electromobility is an aspiring market for the automotive industry. However, electric vehicles still suffer from a couple of issues that are currently under research. One of these problems is the high weight of incorporated rechargeable battery units. To compensate battery weight, automotive manufacturers have...
Way beyond its industrial roots, robotics evolved to be a highly interdisciplinary field with a variety of applications in a smart world. The eRobotics methodology addresses this evolution by providing platforms where roboticist can exchange ideas and collaborate with experts from other disciplines for developing complex technical systems and automated solutions. In this contribution, we describe...
Automation in micro-optical assembly is an emergent, but steadily growing field of research. To advance the optics industry's efforts in this regard, several methods that aid optics engineers with development and deployment of assembly processes have been proposed. However, it is still a non-trivial and time-consuming task to design efficient work orders that consider movement characteristics of integrated...
While forestry is an important economic factor, the methods commonly used to estimate potential financial gains from undertaking a harvesting operation are usually based on heuristics and experience. Those methods use an abstract view on the harvesting project at hand, focusing on a few general statistical parameters. To improve the accuracy of felling cost estimates, we propose a novel, single-tree-based...
One of the greatest challenges in automated planning in industrial environments is to create the link between a real world scenario and symbolic representations that are used by a planner. In this paper we describe an approach to interface a planner with a close-to-reality simulation system. By using this approach, we move the problematic interface with a physical scenario to the simulation system,...
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