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MEEM Seminar 0809_008

Multi-Sensor integration in Industrial Manipulation: Hybrid Switched Control, Trajectory Generation, and Software Development

Abstract

The potential of multi-sensor integration in industrial manipulation systems is enormously high and almost unused in real-world systems and applications. Scientific literature provides plenty of approaches for sensor integration, sensor-guided and sensor-guarded robot control, visual servoing, robot control architectures, and software systems, but it is still one of the major challenges to bring all fields together. Therefore we need a better over-all view onto different domains. This overview talk covers three areas, which play a fundamental role to "glue" the above mentioned fields together:

1. The manipulation control system (or architecture) from the control engineer's point of view enabling the usage of hybrid switched systems for robotic manipulation systems.
2. The problem of trajectory generation in hybrid switched control systems.
3. Important aspects on software engineering in the field of robot control architectures. Each of these parts is accompanied by real-world experimental results in order to highlight the relevance and the potential of these technologies.

Event:	MEEM Seminar 0809_008
Date:	18 August 2008 (Monday)
Time:	2:00 pm
Venue:	Room B6619 (MEEM Conference Room) City University of Hong Kong
Speaker:	Mr Torsten Kröger Institute for Robotics and Process Control Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany

About the Speaker

Torsten Kröger studied in electrical engineering at the Technical University of Braunschweig in 2002. In 2001, he did an industrial internship at Lenze Corp. in Atlanta, USA. He is pursuing a Ph.D. degree at the Institute for Robotics and Process Control of the Technical University of Braunschweig, where a joint German/HK project was conducted co-founded by DAAD and Hong Kong RGC with CityU. His major research interests are on-line trajectory generation, hybrid manipulation control, multi-sensor integration in robot work cells, and new robot programming paradigms. Since 2006 he has worked as technical consultant for several companies dealing with robot technologies.

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