The Mobility Concept of Care-O-bot 3 (2009)
C. P. Connette, C. Parlitz, B. Graf, M. Hägele, A. Verl
Next generation service robots impose high requirements on the employed mobility concepts. Usage in and manipulation of man-made environments requires high flexibility. The aspect of...
Singularity avoidance for over-actuated, pseudo-omnidirectional, wheeled mobile robots (2009)
Connette, C.P., Parlitz, C., Hägele, M., Verl, A.
For mobile platforms with steerable standard wheels it is necessary to precisely coordinate rotation and steering angle of their wheels. An established approach to ensure this is to represent the...
Reiser, U., Klauser, R., Parlitz, C., Verl, A.
In the last decades many robotic demonstrators were built, the vast majority of which are constrained to a limited set of operations, often focusing on the development of single robotic components...
Robotic home assistant Care-O-bot® 3 product vision and innovation platform (2009)
Graf, B., Parlitz, C., Hägele, M.
The development of a mobile robot to assist people in their home is a long term goal of Fraunhofer IPA. In order to meet this goal, three generations of a robotic home assistant "Care-O-bot®" have...
Reiser, U., Connette, C.P., Fischer, J., Kubacki, J., Bubeck, A., Weisshardt, F., ...
This paper introduces Care-O-bot® 3, a highly integrated and compact service robot with manipulation, navigation and vision capabilities. In particular, Care-O-bot® 3 combines the best of available...
Care-O-bot® 3 - Mobiler Serviceroboter mit ausgeprägter Manipulationsfähigkeit (2008)
Hoch, A., Simons, F., Haag, M., Parlitz, C., Reiser, U., Hägele, M.
Mit der Produktvision Care-O-bot® 3 wird eine neue Klasse von Servicerobotern geschaffen, die durch hohe Funktionalität und ansprechendes Design den Traum vom Haushaltsroboter in greifbare Nähe...
Care-o-bot 3 - rationale for human-robot interaction design (2008)
Parlitz, C., Hägele, M., Klein, P., Seifert, J., Dautenhahn, K.
This paper presents the design rationale for a new service robot, Care-O-bot 3 that is meant to operate as a companion robot in people's homes. Note, the emphasis in the paper is on the design of a...
The mobility concept of care-O-bot 3 (2008)
Connette, C.P., Parlitz, C., Graf, B., Hägele, M., Verl, A.
Next generation service robots impose high requirements on the employed mobility concepts. Usage in and manipulation of man-made environments requires high flexibility. The aspect of...
Robotic home assistant care-O-bot® 3 (2008)
The development of a mobile robot to assist people in their home is a long term goal of Fraunhofer IPA. In order to meet this goal, three generations of a robotic home assistant "Care-O-bot®" have...
Meyer, C., Hollmann, R., Parlitz, C., Hägele, M.
Assistant systems, both mobile or stationary, support the worker in his production process, e. g., when welding in small lot sizes. For programming these tasks no viable solution exists, the methods...
Intuitive human-machine-interaction and implementation on a household robot companion (2007)
Parlitz, C., Baum, W., Reiser, U., Hägele, M.
The increasing capabilities of experimental household robot platforms require more and more sophisticated methods of interaction. While there are many developments in all directions of...
Dynamische Satzgenerierung und Sprachausgabe für einen mobilen Serviceroboter (2007)
Parlitz, C., Amann, B., Hägele, M.
Die vorliegende Arbeit befasst sich mit der Entwicklung einer Sprachausgabe für ein mobiles Robotersystem. Dazu wurde zum einen auf die Anwendung zugeschnittenes Text-To-Speech Verfahren und zum...
Light robot assistants, their applications and trends in Europe (2006)
In this articel robot assistants are motivated and presented. The rob@work is a mobile assistant robot that has been set up at Fraunhofer IPA working in a welding scenario. Furthermore european...
Niehaus, M., Helms, E., Kubacki, J., Meyer, C., Parlitz, C., Barth, O.
Im Projekt ASSISTOR wurde der Einsatz eines neuartigen Maschinenkonzepts untersucht: Assistierende, interaktive Manipulatoren. Es handelt sich hierbei um Handhabungssysteme, mit denen der Mensch in...
PowerMate - a safe and intuitive robot assistant for handling and assembly tasks (2005)
Schraft, R.D., Meyer, C., Parlitz, C., Helms, E.
In this contribution a robot assistant for handling and assembly tasks is presented. The main emphasis of PowerMate was to create a robot assistant that works together with a human worker that is...
Kubacki, J., Giesler, B., Parlitz, C.
In this paper the aim is combine the principle of active autonomous object modeling with results from the fiel of computer vision and 3D geometrical modeling for recognition purposes focusing on...
Parlitz, C., Helms, E., Hägele, M.
Through the user of new sensor devices, new forms of safe human robot cooperation are made possible. The demonstrator PowerMate shows a possible setup. An even higher degree of flexibility can be...
Implementierung einer Bewegungsplanung für einen Roboterarm (2002)
This paper describes the implementation of a path-planning algorithm for a robot-arm on a mobile platform. Emphasis was laid on efficient algorithms so that the path of the robot can be adapted...