As robots become more affordable, they will begin to exist in the world in greater quantities.
Some of these robots will likely be designed to act as components in specific teams. These …

This paper presents a hybrid control architecture that coordinates the motion of groups of
automated guided vehicles in flexible manufacturing systems. The high-level control is …

In the era of the fourth industrial revolution, instead of human, machine or robot plays an
important role in working place. Especially, it is difficult to manage a large warehouse only …

In this paper, we propose a novel design of end-effectors that is specialized in caging
manipulation. Caging manipulation has several advantages comparing with traditional …

Existing functionality for intelligent physical systems (IPS), such as autonomous vehicles
(AV), generally lacks the ability to reason and evaluate the environment and to learn from …

Many one-shot Multi-Robot Path Finding (MRPF) algorithms have been able to find collision-
free paths for hundreds or even thousands of robots moving to their respective goal …

Existing functionality for intelligent physical systems (IPS), such as autonomous vehicles
(AV), is generally built around rigid rule-sets, which allow predictable behavior in their …

Some processes in the manufacturing industry still need manual work. In particular, kitting
processes in assembly factories require human workers because of the need to handle …

Zusammenfassung Das amerikanische Unternehmen Kiva Systems hat mit der Nutzung von
mobilen Robotern das klassische Kommissionierkonzept „Ware-zur-Person “revolutioniert …

In recent years, autonomous mobile platforms are finding an increasing range of
applications in inspection or surveillance tasks, or to the transport of objects, in places such …