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Gearing up and accelerating cross‐fertilization between academic and industrial robotics research in Europe:

Technology transfer experiments from the ECHORD project

  • Presents technology transfer experiments from the ECHORD project
  • Results of the EU-funded project ECHORD (European Clearing House for Open Robotics Development) aiming to strengthen the cooperation between scientific research and industry in European robotics
  • Written by leading experts in the field

Part of the book series: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics (STAR, volume 94)

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Table of contents (16 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-13
  2. The ECHORD Project: A General Perspective

    • Sascha Griffiths, Ciro Natale, Ricardo Araújo, Germano Veiga, Pasquale Chiacchio, Florian Röhrbein et al.
    Pages 1-24
  3. Future Industrial Robotics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-27
    2. FREE: Flexible and Safe Interactive Human-Robot Environment for Small Batch Exacting Applications

      • Dario Antonelli, Sergey Astanin, Gabriella Caporaletti, Francesco Donati
      Pages 47-62
    3. In-Situ Robotic Fabrication: Advanced Digital Manufacturing Beyond the Laboratory

      • Volker Helm, Jan Willmann, Fabio Gramazio, Matthias Kohler
      Pages 63-83
    4. TRAFCON – Traffic Control of AGVs in Automatic Warehouses

      • Cristian Secchi, Roberto Olmi, Cesare Fantuzzi, Marco Casarini
      Pages 85-105
    5. Kinesthetic Teaching Using Assisted Gravity Compensation for Model-Free Trajectory Generation in Confined Spaces

      • Jochen J. Steil, Christian Emmerich, Agnes Swadzba, Ricarda Grünberg, Arne Nordmann, Sebastian Wrede
      Pages 107-127
  4. Robotic Grasping

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-132
    2. Active Recognition and Manipulation for Mobile Robot Bin Picking

      • Dirk Holz, Matthias Nieuwenhuisen, David Droeschel, Jörg Stückler, Alexander Berner, Jun Li et al.
      Pages 133-153
    3. Automatic Grasp Generation and Improvement for Industrial Bin-Picking

      • Dirk Kraft, Lars-Peter Ellekilde, Jimmy Alison Jørgensen
      Pages 155-176
    4. GRASPY – Object Manipulation with NAO

      • Judith Müller, Udo Frese, Thomas Röfer, Rodolphe Gelin, Alexandre Mazel
      Pages 177-195
    5. HANDS.DVI: A DeVice-Independent Programming and Control Framework for Robotic HANDS

      • Gionata Salvietti, Guido Gioioso, Monica Malvezzi, Domenico Prattichizzo, Alessandro Serio, Edoardo Farnioli et al.
      Pages 197-215
    6. DEXDEB – Application of DEXtrous Robotic Hands for DEBoning Operation

      • Guowu Wei, Franck Stephan, Vahid Aminzadeh, Jian S. Dai, Grigoré Gogu
      Pages 217-235
  5. Human-Centered Robots

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 237-239
    2. TESBE: Technologies for Efficient and Safe Body Extenders

      • Massimo Bergamasco, Fabio Salsedo, Simone Marcheschi, Giovanni Stellin, Gabriele Cingano, Francesco Becchi
      Pages 241-265
    3. Improving Domiciliary Robotic Services by Integrating the ASTRO Robot in an AmI Infrastructure

      • Filippo Cavallo, Michela Aquilano, Manuele Bonaccorsi, Raffaele Limosani, Alessandro Manzi, Maria Chiara Carrozza et al.
      Pages 267-282
    4. Psychophysiological Interaction and Empathic Cognition for Human-Robot Cooperative Work (PsyIntEC)

      • Johan Hagelbäck, Olle Hilborn, Petar Jerčić, Stefan J. Johansson, Craig A. Lindley, Johan Svensson et al.
      Pages 283-299
    5. Bilateral Haptic Teleoperation of an Industrial Multirotor UAV

      • Sammy Omari, Minh-Duc Hua, Guillaume Ducard, Tarek Hamel
      Pages 301-320
    6. Multimodal Interfaces to Improve Therapeutic Outcomes in Robot-Assisted Rehabilitation

      • Loredana Zollo, Eugenia Papaleo, Luca Spedaliere, Eugenio Guglielmelli, Francisco Javier Badesa, Ricardo Morales et al.
      Pages 321-343

About this book

This monograph by Florian Röhrbein, Germano Veiga and Ciro Natale is an edited collection of 15 authoritative contributions in the area of robot technology transfer between academia and industry. It comprises three parts on Future Industrial Robotics, Robotic Grasping as well as Human-Centered Robots. The book chapters cover almost all the topics nowadays considered ‘hot’ within the robotics community, from reliable object recognition to dexterous grasping, from speech recognition to intuitive robot programming, from mobile robot navigation to aerial robotics, from safe physical human-robot interaction to body extenders. All contributions stem from the results of ECHORD – the European Clearing House for Open Robotics Development, a large-scale integrating project funded by the European Commission within the 7th Framework Programme from 2009 to 2013. ECHORD’s two main pillars were the so-called experiments, 52 small-sized industry-driven research projects, and the structured dialog, a powerful interaction instrument between the stakeholders. The results described in this volume are expected to shed new light on innovation and technology transfer from academia to industry in the field of robotics.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Informatics VI, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany

    Florian Röhrbein

  • Feup Campus, Inesc Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Germano Veiga

  • Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale e dell’Informazione, Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli, Aversa, Italy

    Ciro Natale

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Gearing up and accelerating cross‐fertilization between academic and industrial robotics research in Europe:

  • Book Subtitle: Technology transfer experiments from the ECHORD project

  • Editors: Florian Röhrbein, Germano Veiga, Ciro Natale

  • Series Title: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02934-4

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-02934-4Published: 11 October 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1610-7438

  • Series E-ISSN: 1610-742X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 346

  • Number of Illustrations: 38 b/w illustrations, 149 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Robotics and Automation, Artificial Intelligence

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