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Work Autonomy and Adaptive Digital Assistance in Flexible Working Environments
Digital assistance has increasingly been implemented to cognitively support employees and enhance efficiency in different working environments. However, implementations of current assistance systems are often ...
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Chapter
Human-Centered Adaptive Assistance Systems for the Shop Floor
Most of today’s assistance systems for the shop floor do not consistently follow a human-centered design approach. An explicit modeling of concepts for instructions, users and adaptations is required when aimi...
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Article
Plug, Plan and Produce as Enabler for Easy Workcell Setup and Collaborative Robot Programming in Smart Factories
The transformation of today’s manufacturing lines into truly adaptive systems facilitating individualized mass production requires new approaches for the efficient integration, configuration and control of rob...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Ontology for Modelling Human Machine Interaction in Smart Environments
In many smart environments including smart homes, human machine interactions are crucial. Being able to describe, store and query interaction data is an important feature. This especially gains importance when...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Evaluating a Graph Query Language for Human-Robot Interaction Data in Smart Environments
Solutions for efficient querying of long-term human-robot interaction data require in-depth knowledge of the involved domains and represents a very difficult and error prone task due to the inherent (system) c...
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Article
The Cognitive Service Robotics Apartment
The emergence of cognitive interaction technology offering intuitive and personalized support for humans in daily routines is essential for the success of future smart environments. Social robotics and ambient...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
DSLs in Robotics: A Case Study in Programming Self-reconfigurable Robots
Robotic systems blend hardware and software in a holistic way that intrinsically raises many crosscutting concerns such as concurrency, uncertainty, and time constraints. These concerns make programming roboti...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Engagement Detection During Deictic References in Human-Robot Interaction
Humans are typically skilled interaction partners and detect even small problems during an interaction. In contrast, interactive robot systems often lack the basic capabilities to sense the engagement of their...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Data Set for Fault Detection Research on Component-Based Robotic Systems
Fault detection and identification methods (FDI) are an important aspect for ensuring consistent behavior of technical systems. In robotics FDI promises to improve the autonomy and robustness. Existing FDI res...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Welcome to the Future – How Naïve Users Intuitively Address an Intelligent Robotics Apartment
The purpose of this Wizard-of-Oz study was to explore the intuitive verbal and non-verbal goal-directed behavior of naïve participants in an intelligent robotics apartment. Participants had to complete seven ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Survey on Domain-Specific Languages in Robotics
The design, simulation and programming of robotics systems is challenging as expertise from multiple domains needs to be integrated conceptually and technically. Domain-specific modeling promises an efficient ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Kinesthetic Teaching Using Assisted Gravity Compensation for Model-Free Trajectory Generation in Confined Spaces
The presented work approaches programming of redundant robots such as the KUKA Lightweight Robot IV in a co-worker scenario from a user-centered point of view. It specifically asks, how the user’s implicit kno...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Cognitive Interaction Toolkit – Improving Reproducibility of Robotic Systems Experiments
Research on robot systems either integrating a large number of capabilities in a single architecture or displaying outstanding performance in a single domain achieved considerable progress over the last years....
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Kinesthetic Teaching Using Assisted Gravity Compensation for Model-Free Trajectory Generation in Confined Spaces
The presented work approaches programming of redundant robots such as the KUKA Lightweight Robot IV in a co-worker scenario from a user-centered point of view. It specifically asks, how the user’s implicit kno...
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Article
Dynamics of storm-driven suspended sediments in a headwater catchment described by multivariable modeling
Previous research has shown that the rate at which suspended sediment is transported in watercourses depends primarily on discharge (Q) as the first-order control, but additional factors are thought to affect sus...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Effects of Different Robot Interaction Strategies During Cognitive Tasks
A growing field in Human-Robot Interaction aims at social assistance for users on specific tasks. These applications allow for insights regarding the acceptance of the robot’s presence and interaction-related ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Software Abstractions for Simulation and Control of a Continuum Robot
The Bionic Handling Assistant is a new continuum robot which is manufactured in a rapid-prototy** procedure out of elastic polyamide. Its mechanical flexibility and low weight provide an enormous potential f...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Meta-model and Toolchain for Improved Interoperability of Robotic Frameworks
The emerging availability of high-quality software repositories for robotics promises to speed up the construction process of robotic systems through systematic reuse of software components. However, to reuse ...
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Chapter
An Integration Framework for Develo** Interactive Robots
In recent years there is an increasing interest in building personal robots that are capable of a human-like interaction. In addition to multi-modal interaction skills, such a robot must also be able to adapt ...
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Article
Open AccessVision Systems with the Human in the Loop
The emerging cognitive vision paradigm deals with vision systems that apply machine learning and automatic reasoning in order to learn from what they perceive. Cognitive vision systems can rate the relevance a...
