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Technologies for the Fast Set-Up of Automated Assembly Processes

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In this article, we describe technologies facilitating the set-up of automated assembly solutions which have been developed in the context of the IntellAct project (2011–2014). Tedious procedures are currently still required to establish such robot solutions. This hinders especially the automation of so called few-of-a-kind production. Therefore, most production of this kind is done manually and thus often performed in low-wage countries. In the IntellAct project, we have developed a set of methods which facilitate the set-up of a complex automatic assembly process, and here we present our work on tele-operation, dexterous grasping, pose estimation and learning of control strategies. The prototype developed in IntellAct is at a TRL4 (corresponding to ‘demonstration in lab environment’).

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  1. http://www.ptgrey.com/products/bumblebee2.

  2. http://www.ascension-tech.com/realtime/RTtrakSTAR.php.

  3. The experiments in [4, 6–8] were done by people not knowing the system before.

  4. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4Yc3_ES2YY.

  5. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXhzSckFy9I.

  6. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4Yc3_ES2YY.

  7. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXhzSckFy9I.

  8. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW_zH80IO_M.

  9. The Technical Readiness Level indicates the maturity of evolving technologies. It ranges from TRL 1 (basic technology research) to TRL 9 (system operating successfully under normal working conditions).

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We would like to thank Ole Madsen for providing Fig. 2a and Marco Mazzini for providing Fig. 2b. We would like to thank Justus Piater for valuable input to the article.

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  1. The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute (MMMI), University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

    Norbert Krüger, Henrik Gordon Petersen, Lars-Peter Ellekilde, Thiusius Rajeeth Savarimuthu, Jimmy Alison Rytz, Anders Glent Buch, Dirk Kraft & Wail Mustafa

  2. Institute for Design and Communication, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

    Kerstin Fischer

  3. Humanoid and Cognitive Robotics Lab, Department of Automatics, Biocybernetics, and Robotics, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Aleš Ude, Bojan Nemec & Aljaž Kramberger

  4. Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience (BCCN), Georg-August University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

    Eren Erdal Aksoy, Jeremie Papon & Florentin Wörgötter

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The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007–2013 (Specific Programme Cooperation, Theme 3, Information and Communication Technologies) under Grant agreement no. 269959, IntellAct.

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Krüger, N., Ude, A., Petersen, H.G. et al. Technologies for the Fast Set-Up of Automated Assembly Processes. Künstl Intell 28, 305–313 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13218-014-0329-9

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