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Poster Gallery
The projects described below are all ongoing or recently concluded research projects performed in collaboration with Danish and/or international academic and industrial partners. A full view of each poster is available by clicking on the rightside image.
ADAPTIVE ROBOTS
The project partners, i.e. two robot suppliers, ABB and Siemens, two food companies, Easyfood and Dan Cake, and the AdapTronics Group, have used research on adaptive robotics to develop new automation systems for the two food companies in order to allow the companies to improve their workplace environment. The adaptive robotics research work has included investigations on how to use, for instance, neural network control and evolutionary development to provide flexibility of control.
For further details, please visit www.adaptronics.dk/Projects/index.html.
Contact: Henrik Hautop Lund | |
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AGROBOTS
The AgroBots project partners are enaged in the technological development of conventional agriculture, environmentally-friendly farming, and new markets for crops for the pharmaceuticals industry. The aim of the project is to design software by using three prototype platforms, i.e. SoftBOT: Simulation by visualizing virtual robots, LEGOBOT: Simulation by applying simple, physical robots in a laboratory set-up, AgroBOT: An advanced robotic platform developed by the Danish (Agricultural) Research Centre Bygholm of Horsens. Partners to the projct are the latter, RoboCluster and The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute. For further details, please visit www.agrobots.dk.
Contact: Palle Nowack | |
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DECIDE
Flexibility being a keyword in many Danish production environments, a number of leading Danish enterprises and Funen-based researchers have decided to jointly explore the potentials of creating tomorrow's flexible production cells based on today's technologies e.g. the Multi-Agent and Emulation System (MAES). Project partners are, amongst others, RoboCluster, Bang & Olufsen, LEGO, Odense Shipyard, Danish Technological Institute, The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute for Production Technology and Odense University College of Engineering. For further details please visit www.robocluster.dk.
Contact: Kasper Hallenborg | |
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DOCKWELDER
To extend the automation in shipyards, a consortium of five European companies and one university has been developing a prototype of a mechanism enabling the usage of robots for welding in the dock area. The project has been carried out with support from the European Commission under the 5'th framework programme. The methods developed during the 3-year project duration solved three major problems i.e. inapplicable conventional automation methods (gantry equipment, control etc.) in dock areas, lack of sufficient flexibility of manipulators, non-existing process control for the large deviation in workpieces. For further details, please visit www.mip.sdu.dk/dockwelder.
Contact: Henrik Gordon Petersen | |
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HYDRA
HYDRA is an EU Future and Emergent Technology research project. The AdapTronics group is coordinator and other partners are University of Zurich, University of Edinburgh, University of Aarhus and the LEGO company. The HYDRA project is contemplating a novel architecture for the development of artefacts inspired by cell-biology and based on simple building blocks. The potential of the new design standard is exemplified through the construction of robotic systems that can change morphology, and should result in flexible, robust and applicable artefacts far beyond any known conventional engineering perspective. For further details, please visit www.hydra-robot.com.
Contact: Henrik Hautop Lund |
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I-BLOCKS
The I-BLOCKS work explores the idea of the intelligent brick through hardware and software implementations. The intelligent brick is a physical, modular entity which allows for programming by building. The intelligent brick used is implemented as a LEGO Duplo brick with internal processing and the possibility to connect to four other bricks. A communication protocol is developed as well as basic functionalities for sensor and actuator bricks. The systems are tested through five different tasks, stating that it is possible to build simple robotic shapes carrying functionality within their structure, and to expand these systems to take on even more functionalities.
For further details, please visit www.adaptronics.dk/Projects/index.html.
Contact: Henrik Hautop Lund |
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PLAYWARE
The aim of the PLAYWARE research is to develop products that use IT to create play equipment and play environments that can stimulate children and youth to engage in physical, social play and playful learning. In particular, the project aims at identifying and exploring the possibilities afforded by mobile and ambient intelligence computing for developing new play environments. The play environments invite physical activating play to become an important factor in the community's fight against an increasing child obesity problem. The project colloborates with enterprises like KOMPAN A/S and MicroSoft Research Ltd. For further details, please visit www.adaptronics.dk/Projects/index.html.
Contact: Henrik Hautop Lund |
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SCAPE
SCAPE is a new computer vision system suitable for flexible grasping in industrial robot-vision applications. The name SCAPE is an acronym for ‘Smart Classifier And Pose Estimator’. The system can be used when solid objects of known shape are supplied to a production process in random orientation and position on conveyer belts or in pallet boxes. SCAPE is being developed by the company Scape A/S, a joint venture between Univer-sity of Southern Denmark and NOVI Inc. Scape A/S collaborates with the pump manufacturing company Grundfos A/S where a pro-totype of SCAPE has successfully picked up objects from a pallet box. For further details, please visit www.scapetechnologies.com.
Contact: René Dencker Eriksen and Ivar Balslev |
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TRANSPOT
The TRANSPOT robot moves along plants and people without colliding with any of them. TRANSPOT is an unmanned, mobile robot designed to carruy, for example, potted plants in and out of greenhouses. The robot is equipped with a non-contact security system, which means it will stop before colliding with any obstacle. Besides, the robot observe EN(Europen Norm)1525. The TRANSPOT system is easy to assemble and very user-friendly. For further details, please visit www.manox.dk.
Contact: Mads Andresen and Lars Dalgaard |
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