People with severe motor impairments can interact with their environment again by using robotic assistance systems.
Shared control support facilitates robot control when performing daily activities.
Autonomous and cognitive robotic systems will create the necessary flexibility and adaptability to enable automated production of individual items in the future.
Robotic agents, which autonomously arrange and process operating resources, tools, assemblies and components, are essential in the networked autonomous production.
Due to static lift and low energy consumption, lighter than air UAVs offer great potential for long-endurance missions. Members of the DLR Flying Robots group are working on modeling and control of airships used for establishing long-range communication relays.
Weight is crucial for long-duration flights of high-altitude platforms. Without the need for a landing gear, the weight of an aerial vehicle can be significantly reduced, which results in extended range and enhanced performance.
In the near future, high-altitude platforms could extend application fields presently covered by satellites and are therefore often named HAPS, which stands for high-altitude pseudo satellites. Possible applications range from establishing communication networks to long-term recording of weather and environmental data.
At the moment, UAVs are able of carrying out their pre-planned mission. For this reason, the analysis of the execution plans in terms of their correctness and errorless is imperative.
Researchers within the DLR Flying Robots group have integrated a light-weight industrial robot arm with seven degrees of freedom into an autonomous double-rotor helicopter platform. The system is intended for automatic deployment and maintenance of mobile service robots with magnetic wheels, which are used for pipeline inspection.
