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KOROS Initiative: Automatized Throwing and Catching for Material Transportation

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Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification, and Validation (ISoLA 2011)

Part of the book series: Communications in Computer and Information Science ((CCIS,volume 336))

Abstract

Catching a thrown object has increasingly been a subject of research. The reason has largely been to demonstrate the advances in robot technology. Besides this academic usage also the application of throwing and catching for material transport has been proposed. Within the KOROS initiative at the Vienna University of Technology the transport-by-throwing approach will be developed further. Based on multiple cameras and advanced robotic arms a practical evaluation of the approach will be done. The realization with state of the art equipment will enable to identify possible fields of application as well as current limitations of the transport-by-throwing approach. Especially soft throwing and catching, exposing the transported objects to minimal forces, are of main interest.

The tranport-by-throwing scenario presented here is one of the activities within the KOROS (collaborating robotic systems) initiative of the Vienna University of Technology. The initiative has be established in 2010 after a successful proposal for robotic infrastructure including a 3D-display, two KUKA LWR 4+ arms and the world-wide first Alebaran Romeo humanoid robot (panned to be delivered in early 2013). The funding for the infrastructure has been provided by the WWTF as well as the Vienna University of Technology.

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  1. Institute of Computer Technology, Vienna University of Technology, Gußhausstraße. 27-29 / 384, 1040, Wien, Austria

    Martin Pongratz & Klaus Pollhammer

  2. Automation and Control Institute, Vienna University of Technology, Gußhausstraße. 27-29 / 376, 1040, Wien, Austria

    Alexander Szep

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Software Engineering Group, TU Darmstadt, Hochschulstr. 10, 64289, Darmstadt, Germany

    Reiner Hähnle

  2. Institute of Computer Languages, TU Vienna, Faculty of Informatics, Argentinierstr. 8 / E185.1, 1040, Vienna, Austria

    Jens Knoop

  3. Institute of Informatics, Service and Software Engineering Group, University Potsdam, August-Bebel-Str. 89, 14482, Potsdam, Germany

    Tiziana Margaria

  4. Faculty of Informatics, Institute of Computer Languages, TU Vienna, Argentinierstr. 8 / E185.1, 1040, Vienna, Austria

    Dietmar Schreiner

  5. Faculty of Informatics, Chair of Programming Systems, TU Dortmund, Otto-Hahn-Str. 14, 44227, Dortmund, Germany

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Pongratz, M., Pollhammer, K., Szep, A. (2012). KOROS Initiative: Automatized Throwing and Catching for Material Transportation. In: Hähnle, R., Knoop, J., Margaria, T., Schreiner, D., Steffen, B. (eds) Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification, and Validation. ISoLA 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 336. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34781-8_10

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