By combining human-robot cooperation and location-flexible robot systems, a new form of team can be defined within the factory in order to solve a production-related task together through the complementary combination of skills. This opens up new potentials for production and assembly. Particularly relevant here are aspects such as assistance with manual activities, human-robot and robot-robot collaboration.

In addition to the use of integrated data models in all phases of use, intelligent production planning and control optimized for mobile robot systems, successful team collaboration requires flexible and powerful ad-hoc networking, the most comprehensive possible environment detection and interpretation, and motion planning tailored to the respective team constellation and task. In addition, user acceptance of mobile robot systems in production and, in particular, the intuitiveness of human-robot interaction play a decisive role in the future successful establishment of such systems in the production environment. These and other scientific questions are addressed within the framework of the joint research project FORobotics of the Bavarian Research Foundation.

Eight research and 19 industrial partners are involved in the research network over a period of three years. On the research side, the addressed topics are focused by partners from the University of Augsburg, the University of Bayreuth, the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, the Technical University Munich, the University of the German Federal Armed Forces Munich and the Fraunhofer Institute IGCV from Augsburg.

Duration: Q1/2017 – Q4/2019

Sponsor: Bavarian Research Foundation

Website: www.forobotics.de