A message from the ECHORD coordinator Alois Knoll

During April and May 2012 our current results were presented at the workshop "Industry-Academia collaboration in the ECHORD project: a bridge for European robotics innovation" which was held at the ICRA 2012 conference in St. Paul, Minnesota. A draft for the multimedia report was created and work on both the simulated and...

During February 2012 and March 2012 we created a new formulation for optimal motions that are subject to acceleration constraints. Using this formulation, multiple motions were generated and successfully transferred onto the KUKA robot arm. For this a custom glass holder for the robot was designed and then printed on a RepRap...

Work done at LAAS-CNRS The last two months were dedicated to generate feasible optimized motions for the ECHORD final experimental setup with MUSCOD. This demonstrator shows the effectiveness of our two-stage optimal motion planning framework. Work done at Uni Heidelberg The last two months were mostly spent to prepare the...

During December 2011 and January 2012 the optimal control problem formulation was extended and an optimized motion was successfully transferred onto the KUKA robot arm. The demonstrator was changed to better match the workspace of the robot. Furthermore, there was an exchange of PhD students between Heidelberg University and...