Speaker: Felix von Drigalski

Title: Sensing and planning in robotic assembly and manipulation - a reality

Seminar on Tuesday August 13, 2019 at 13:15, CIIRC CTU Prague, Praha 6, Dejvice, Jugoslávských partyzánů 1580/3, Building B, Room JP:B-633
If you cannot find the room, call Vaclav Hlavac, the host +420 603 149 689

Abstract

Robot systems are expected to assemble large varieties of complex products with small lot sizes in the very near future. But how will robots pick items and assemble machines with sub-millimeter precision? Which capabilities are lacking in current generation robots, and how may we get there? In this talk, we discuss the obstacles to fully automated assembly with current robotic systems, the requirements for vision and sensing systems, and state of the art approaches to the problem, using examples from on-going research at OMRON and the World Robot Summit Assembly Challenge 2018 held in Tokyo.

Biography

Felix von Drigalski is a senior researcher at OMRON SINIC X Corporation, neighboring the University of Tokyo. He obtained a PhD in Computer Science at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology in Japan, and MSc level engineering diplomas from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, and the INSA Lyon in France. His research interests include robotic manipulation, tactile sensing and automated assembly. His teams obtained 1st place at the Airbus Shopfloor Challenge at ICRA 2016, Finalist at the Amazon Robotics Challenge 2017, and 4th place and the Special Award of the SICE at the World Robot Summit Assembly Challenge 2018. He is a core contributor to the motion planning software MoveIt.