The 5th Robotix-Academy Roadshow took place online on April 29, 2021 from 9 am to 3:30 pm. The event was organized by the project partner University of Lorraine. It included presentations from the University of Lorraine, the University of Liège, the Umwelt-Campus Birkenfeld, and ZEMA Saarbrücken. The presentations focused on the assistance of robots in…
On April 26, 2021, the first exchange of the newly founded German Robotics Association e.V. (DRV) took place with the virtual “fireside evening”. The moderation was taken over by Robert Weber, who quickly created a relaxed and at the same time productive atmosphere. Robert Weber is well known in the industry, as is his podcast.…
On April 21 and 22, 2021, ZeMA – Zentrum für Mechatronik und Automatisierungstechnik gGmbH (Center for Mechatronics and Automation Technology) hosted the 13th Assembly Conference as an online event. The conference was a virtual meeting point for decision makers, planners and developers from production and engineering. In addition to the presentations, there was also ample…
On April 12, the lecture Advanced Robotics initiated by the Robotix-Academy was launched. The lecture will now take place every summer semester and will be offered in an online format. All Robotix-Academy partner universities participate and present advanced robotics topics. Over a six-week period, a total of 12 modules are offered, during which interested students…
On March 18, 2021, the University of Luxembourg (Uni Lu) hosted a robot programming workshop as part of the Robotix Academy. A handful of students took the opportunity to teach a robot on site in the robotics lab. The Robotix-Academy research assistants instructed the students and each student had the opportunity to move the robot…
On March 10, Xiaomei Xu, PhD student at ZeMA and research associate at the Robotix Academy, was able to present her demonstrator “Intelligent robot system for solving dissection puzzle” at a Coffee Break. Using various machine learning methods (reinforcement learning) such as K-nearest neighbor, decision tree, or Deep Q network, the robot autonomously learns a…
On 04.02.2021 the doctoral thesis disputation titled “Agile manufacturing control for (re)fabrication systems” of Sebastian Groß took place. The PhD was carried out in a cooperation between the Environmental Campus Birkenfeld (UCB) of the University of Applied Sciences Trier and the University of Luxembourg (Uni Lu), as well as financed by the Interreg V A…
Like every year, the Robotix-Academy week of lecture took place at the beginning of the year, from February 1 to 5, 2021. This event was organized by the University of Liege, online, because of the sanitary conditions. Despite this constraint, this week went very well. The lectures and exercises could easily be followed through…
Problem A safe environment for interaction and cooperation with humans usually has conventional separating protective devices. Objectives To develop a safe environment without separating guards with sensor systems that monitor workstations and demonstrate synchronized human-robot collaboration. A number of objects will be trained for pick and place applications. Approach To make the system as safe…
On September 3, 2020, the fourth Robotix-Academy Summer School started at the Environmental Campus Birkenfeld. Here, the scientific staff of all partner universities of the Robotix-Academy came together to find practical solutions for problems, e.g. in the implementation of demonstrators, and to learn from each other. Due to the constraints of the Corona pandemic, the…
