Dominik Riedelbauch

Schaeffler Technologies AG · SHARE at FAU

Flexible human-robot cooperation can be coordinated by dynamic task allocation, where team members observe task progress and repeatedly decide to execute outstanding operations from a commonly known task model. Such task-level coordination strategies do not cover cases, where a high level of abstraction for task modelling implies operations infeasi...

The widespread availability of lightweight robots that may safely be operated without physical barriers to separate man and machine has paved the way to robot use in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Given these technical foundations, the goal of advancing robots from tools to human-like teammates is a research topic that lately gains con...

Human-robot teaming receives an ever-increasing level of attention in research, development and industry. Novel approaches to task sharing in hybrid teams range from optimized schedules to intelligent cobot assistants with a high degree of autonomy. These approaches must prove their usefulness and benefits compared to manual work or full automation...

Novel human-robot collaboration (HRC) methods need careful validation. This is often achieved with user studies in laboratory environments, which mostly rely on highly individual, complex prototype setups in early design stages. Lately, the lack of replicability imposed by such experiments has vitally been discussed. In this paper, we contribute a...

Virtual commissioning can be used for planning human-robot workflows. To this end, digital human models enable consideration of human ergonomics and motion times as optimization criteria. This leads to optimal but fixed human-robot schedules with clearly quantified benefits over the manual process. By contrast, recent research on robot co-workers h...

In flexible manufacturing settings, automation is shaped by ever changing conditions (e.g. varying part feeding locations, highly customizable products). Quick adaptation of robot systems is mostly achieved by visual end-user robot (re-)programming. In this paper, we discuss the explicit integration of anticipated product and process variety into v...

Human-robot teaming attracts an ever-increasing level of attention in academia as well as in industry. Mixed teams promise enhanced productivity and job attractiveness to small and medium enterprises that are not suited for traditional, fenced automation solutions. Yet, coordinated task sharing among heterogeneous partners requires intelligent cobo...

Human-Robot Teams offer the flexibility needed for partial automation in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). They will thus be an integral part of Factories of the Future. Our research targets a particularly flexible teaming mode, where agents share tasks dynamically. Such approaches require cognitive robots with reasoning and sensing capabi...

We propose a highly flexible approach to human-robot cooperation, where a robot dynamically selects operations contributing to a shared goal from a given task model. Therefore, knowledge on the task progress is extracted from a world model constructed from eye-in-hand camera images. Data generated from such partial workspace observations is not rel...

Human-robot cooperation is a trending topic in robotics research. Recent works mainly focus the execution phase, where human and robot actions need to be planned and coordinated based on given task models. In contrast, we discuss an approach to fast creation of task models suitable for flexible human-robot teaming: Inspired by graphical robot appli...

We envision a system that treats humans and robots as equal partners in achieving a common goal. Equality of agents offers high flexibility through dynamic task allocation and flexible team composition, but thereby complicates the coordination of robots with human actions. We contribute a formal framework and system architecture that integrates pla...

Close quarters human-robot collaboration promises the integration of human flexibility with robot precision, endurance, and strength. However, such collaboration requires a monitoring solution for the shared human-robot workspace to drive the robot manipulator. Recent research has already developed a variety of individual software components for mo...

Recent advances in safe human-robot coexistence make collaboration of humans and robots in achieving common goals feasible. We propose a concept that treats human and robot agents as equal partners in executing a task specified by a shared task model. Equality between agents offers high flexibility, as e.g. the team composition may change arbitrari...

Recent research in robotics aims at combining the abilities of humans and robots through human-robot collaboration. Robots must overcome additional challenges to handle dynamic environments within shared workspaces. They especially must perceive objects and the working progress to synchronize with humans in shared tasks. Due to unpredictable human...