Satellite Projects
Satellite projects are with regard to the research topics closely bond to the Cluster of Excellence CoTesys:
- Robot ACE on its way to Marienplatz in Munich (photo: LSR/CoTeSys).
Interactive Urban Robot
Autonomous navigation through complex dynamic real-world scenarios is a demanding challenge for today’s mobile robots. The goal of the Interactive Urban Robot (IURO) project is to develop and implement methods and technologies enabling robots to navigate and interact in densely populated, unknown humancentred environments and retrieve information from human partners in order to achieve a given navigation or interaction goal. With this goal and relevance for real-life scenarios in mind, IUROtakes robots out of the well-structured and well-known environments that are generally found in state-of-the-art robotic experiments, perfectly matching the EU workprogramme by contributing to improved perception and action capabilities of autonomous robots. Robots with capabilities investigated in IURO will act more robustly in changing and unforeseen situations, with higher autonomy and will be more dependable as they are able to proactively improve their knowledge deficiencies through interaction with humans.
IURO is a EU-Research programme (STREP) and started on February 1st, 2010. It will be funded for three years with 3.5 million euros. Apart from the Institute of Automatic Control Engineering at TUM the following partners are involved: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Universität Salzburg and the TUM Spin-off ACCREA Engineering in Poland.
KREAagentuse
Coordinator: Birgit Vogel-Heuser
DFG transferproject
KREAagentuse is funded as a transferproject by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). Research topic of the project is the development of a tool-supported method for the implementation of distributed software-agents in the domain of factory automation. Based on the notations of the Systems Modeling Language (SysML) a tool is developed that enables automation software engineers to easily implement agent-based control software directly on common automation devices like Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) or Industrial-PCs (IPC).
Learn more about KREAagentuse (only in German).
Cognitive mobile vehicles
Coordinators: Hans-Joachim Wünsche, Gerd Hirzinger
The autonomous passenger car "Munich Cognitive Autonomous Robot Car 3rd Generation" MuCAR-3 is a satellite demonstrator of CoTeSys, used either alone or combined with a blimp from DLR in combined rescue scenarios. The car is equipped with a number of sensors and high-speed computing power to realize cognitive algorithms in real-time.
The unmanned DLR-blimp serves as a carrier for visual and other monitoring sensors, and broadband communication. One of the challenging projects under investigation is when both the blimp and the autonomous car cooperate in unknown terrain.
The demonstrator vehicle MuCAR-3, fully equipped for autonomous-driving and with additional sensors. The laser range scanner and GPS antennas can be seen mounted on the roof, the cameras are within the car.
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