... to Dr.-Ing. Erik Einhorn, who defended his PhD thesis "Robuste vision-basierte Roboternavigation in natürlichen Einsatzumgebungen " on October 25, 2018
... to Dr.-Ing. Michael Volkhardt, who defended his PhD thesis "Ein Beitrag zur robusten Nutzerwahrnehmung auf realwelttauglichen, häuslichen Assistenzrobotern " on October 16, 2018
Senior participant of long-term user study with socially assistive robots in 20 private homes. The research was part of the successfull SYMPARTNER (www.sympartner.de) project, running from 4/2015 till 6/2018
New socially assistive robot of the SYMPARTNER project (www.sympartner.de) at the the 3rd Future Congress "Human-Machine-Interaction" in the former plenary hall of the German federal parliament in Bonn on 26/27 June 2017.
... to Prof. Horst-Michael Gross and Dr. Klaus Debes, who were honoured with the teaching award of the TU Ilmenau in recognition of their achievements in academic teaching
Our elderly partners from the AWO senior residence Erfurt proudly present their "Robot Tester" certificates, given to them in recognition of their participation as test users (including one final full day of robot service in their homes) for the project Serroga.
For obvious reasons, we also call these maps "Smartie-maps". Thanks to our adaptive resolution mapping, filigrane structures like the rocking chair shown in the forground of the above image can be modelled.
The red areas show the areas of capacitive touch sensors mounted to the inside of the plastic cover of the Scitos G3 Robot. These are used for assisted local motion control since pushing the robot passively is not possible.
