This paper describes the development of a dual-arm robotic system for industrial human–
robot collaboration. The robot demonstrator described here possesses multiple sensor …

This paper presents the evaluation of a heterogeneous robotic team for planetary
exploration purposes. An extensive test campaign with a duration of four weeks was …

With the increasing capabilities of agents using Artificial Intelligence, an opportunity opens
up to form team like collaboration between humans and artificial agents. This paper …

Planetary exploration scenarios illustrate the need for autonomous robots that are capable
to operate in unknown environments without direct human interaction. At the DARPA …

Off‐road ground mobile robots are widely used in diverse applications, both in terrestrial and
planetary environments. They provide an efficient alternative, with lower risk and cost, to …

Robotic software frameworks have major impact on development effort and quality of robot
control systems. This paper provides a condensed overview on the complex topic of robotic …

Modular design of software stacks and hardware components is indispensable for efficient,
robust and scalable projects in many fields. Modularity enables independent parallel …

The use of autonomous robots in areas that require executing a broad range of different
tasks is currently hampered by the high complexity of the software that adapts the robot …

This video paper describes the practical outcome of the first milestone of a project aiming at
setting up a so-called Hybrid Team that can accomplish a wide variety of different tasks. In …

The analogies between space and deep sea motivated the German Helmholtz Association
to setup the joint research program ROBEX (ROBotic Exploration under eXtreme …