Research Foci Clause Samples

Research Foci. Within the scenarios, different research foci have been identified. The research foci are reference points for the expected scientific progress of experiment propo- sals. They bring together mechanical design and controller technology from manufacturers with the knowledge and experience in sensing, cognition and be- haviour control from the research community. – The first research focus is on human-robot interfacing and safety. Here, the main goal of the experiments is to show that safe human-robot cooperation is possible, taking all kinds of sensor failures and inconsistencies into account. – The second research focus is on robot hands and complex manipulation. Here, the experiments show the improvement of laboratory setups towards practical usability as well as promising breakthroughs in the areas of sensors and sensor-guided manipulation. – The third research focus is on mobile manipulators and cooperation. Here, mobile manipulators solve concrete problems in dynamically changing environments with moving obstacles and interaction with humans. – The fourth research focus is on networked robots. Here, two areas are possible: one is networked industrial robots, where we expect demonstra- tors that can only be built in collaboration between industry and academia, with industry providing controller architecture and academia contributing knowledge in advanced real-time networking technologies, as well as service- oriented architectures. The second area concerns more loosely coupled sys- tems, where experiments with mobile robots are expected to establish new showcases, e.g. in the area of search and rescue with robots, new applications of robots in urban areas, and robot systems for monitoring tasks.