Robotics

Robot Simulation

Full Stack Robot Simulation using Gazebo

Industrial Mobile Manipulation

Industrial, Autonomous Mobile Manipulation

Design, Execution, and Post-Mortem Analysis of Prolonged Autonomous Robot Operations

In the context of space missions and terrestrial applications, both mission goals and task implementations for autonomous robots are becoming increasingly complex. Thus, the challenge of monitoring the achievement of task objectives and checking the …

Towards Autonomous Planetary Exploration: The Lightweight Rover Unit (LRU), its Success in the SpaceBotCamp Challenge, and Beyond

Planetary exploration poses many challenges for a robot system. From weight and size constraints to extraterrestrial environment conditions, which constrain the suitable sensors and actuators. As the distance to other planets introduces a significant …

Robex

Moon-analogue demonstration mission on Mt. Etna, Sicily

RAFCON: A Graphical Tool for Engineering Complex, Robotic Tasks

Robotic tasks are becoming increasingly complex, and with this also the robotic systems. This requires new tools to manage this complexity and to orchestrate the systems to fulfill demanding autonomous tasks. For this purpose, we developed a new …

SpacebotCamp

SpacebotCamp 2015, organized by the DLR Space Administration

Robocup

Logistics League, International Robocup