Industrial robots are designed as general-purpose hardware with limited ability to adapt to
changing task requirements or environments. Modular robots, on the other hand, offer …

With the increased demand for customisation, developing task-specific robots for industrial
and personal applications has become essential. Collaborative robots are often preferred …

This thesis presents a Riemannian approach to Programming by Demonstration (PbD). It
generalizes an existing PbD method from Euclidean manifolds to Riemannian manifolds. In …

An important question for production engineers is," How do I automate this task?" In
traditional industrial automation, eg, a car factory, robots perform a small set of tasks for long …

Commercially available robots cannot always be adapted to arbitrary tasks or environments,
particularly when the task would exceed the kinematic or dynamic limits of the robot …

Robots have been used to automate many tasks, and yet designing robots remains largely a
manual process. This thesis seeks to" automate automation" by developing methods to …

This paper presents the ESMERA (European SMEs Robotics Applications) project, which
addresses the" ICT-27-2017: Systems abilities, SME & benchmarking actions, safety …

Die vorliegende Arbeit entstand während meiner Tätigkeit als Ingenieurin in der
Konzernforschung der KUKA Deutschland GmbH mit Betreuung der wissenschaftlichen …

Modular robotic systems offer the possibility to create different robots from arbitrary assembly
of modules. These robots will have different kinematics and dynamics, and generating …

In situ robotic automation in construction is challenging due to constantly changing
environments, a shortage of robotic experts, and a lack of standardized frameworks bridging …