Safety strategies for human-robot cooperation (SIMERO)

The SIMERO project investigates safety strategies for human-robot cooperation. Industrial robots usually do not have sensors that provide overall information of the environment. Obstacles like humans are not recognized and if collisions occur, this may lead to injury of the human or damage of the robot system. However, for several industrial tasks, it would be very helpful if humans and robots could work together in the same workspace at the same time. The goal of the SIMERO project is to develop safety strategies that allow safe cooperation between industrial manipulators and humans and to implement a demonstration system based on these strategies.

Open Master Theses / Diplomarbeiten  & One-term projects / Projektarbeiten (in German)

• Entwicklung eines Roboterbarkeepers (Eher praktische Arbeit)
• Robotermodellanpassung aus Sensordaten (Gemischt praktische und theoretische Arbeit)

Contact

• Dipl.-Wi.-Ing. Dirk Ebert
• Dipl.-Technoinform Thorsten Gecks

Pictures and Demos

• Picture of the SIMERO robot cell. Click on the image to get a more detailed view of the clicked object.

• Video demonstrating the performance of the SIMERO system. (SIMERO.AVI 2.52 MBytes)

Current Students

• Marcel Heintz
• Frank Heinzen

Completed Student Projects

• Project Thesis: "SIMERO Software System Design and Implementation" (Thorsten Gecks)
• Project Thesis: "SIMERO Creation of Stable Difference Images" (Thomas Diehl)
• Project Thesis: "SIMERO Setup of a Camera-based System for Robot Surveillance" (Marco Fandel)
• Project Thesis: "SIMERO Implementation and Comparison of Path-Planning-Algorithms in Configuration-Space" (Macel Heintz)
• Project Thesis: "SIMERO Monitoring of a System for Safe Human Robot Cooperation" (Pascal Wenzel)
• Project Thesis: "SIMERO Implementation and Comparison of Image-based Collision-tests" (Jens Körte)
• Project Thesis: "SIMERO: Development of a GUI for the Configuration of a system for Safe Human Robot Cooperation" (Jan Koch)
• Diploma Thesis: "SIMERO: Generation of fast and smooth robot movements" (Thorsten Gecks)

• Diploma Thesis: "SIMERO: Sensor based Collision Detection and Path Smoothing in C-Space" (Christoph Urbanczik)

Publications

• Ebert, D., Henrich, D.:"Safe Human-Robot-Cooperation:Problem Analysis,System Concept and Fast Sensor Fusion" In: IEEE Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems, pp. 239-244, Baden-Baden, Germany, August 20 - 22, 2001

• Ebert, D., Henrich, D.:"SIMERO - Sicherheitsstrategien für die Mensch-Roboter-Kooperation" In: OTS-Systeme in der Robotik, Reihe BKM Berichte, Herbert Utz Verlag, S. 5.1-5.17, München, 25. Juni 2002

• Ebert, D., Henrich, D.:"Safe Human-Robot-Cooperation: Image-based collision detection for Industrial Robots" In: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 1826-1831, Lausanne, October 2 - 4, 2002

• Ebert, D., Henrich, D.: "SIMERO - Sichere Mensch-Roboter-Koexistenz", In: 2. Workshop für OTS-Systeme in der Robotik - Mensch und Roboter ohne trennende Schutzsysteme", Fraunhofer IRB, S. 119-134, Stuttgart, 24. Juni 2003

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