Doris Aschenbrenner

• Dr.
• Professor (Full) at Hochschule Aalen

To support maintenance and servicing of industrial machines, service processes are even today often performed manually and analogously, although supportive technologies such as augmented reality, virtual reality and digital platforms already exist. In many cases, neither technicians on-site nor remote experts have all the essential information and...

This publication discusses how to deal with self-organizing systems that use artificial intelligence from a practical perspective. Instead of following the media narrative that humanity is in danger of losing control, this literature review reminds of existing research that could help to operationalize work with AI-based systems and thus contribute...

Die vorliegende Publikation führt die Ergebnisse des Fachdialogs „Mensch-Technik-Interaktion – Arbeiten mit Künstlicher Intelligenz“ des „Observatoriums Künstliche Intelligenz in Arbeit und Gesellschaft“ der Denkfabrik Digitale Arbeitsgesellschaft zusammen und leistet einen Beitrag im Diskurs über einen Paradigmenwechsel weg von der Technologie- hi...

This article shows common problems in the development of AI systems (artificial intelligence), such as fundamental misunderstandings between the user side and the AI development side. These arise from deficits in interdisciplinary collaboration and communication and can lead to undesirable consequences for employees or society as a whole in the lon...

Im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz haben DIN und DKE im Januar 2022 die Arbeiten an der zweiten Ausgabe der Deutschen Normungsroadmap Künstliche Intelligenz gestartet. In einem breiten Beteiligungsprozess und unter Mitwirkung von mehr als 570 Fachleuten aus Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft, öffentlicher Hand und Zivilgesellsch...

5G promises to shift Industry 4.0 to the next level by allowing flexible production. However, many communication standards are used throughout a production site, which will stay so in the foreseeable future. Furthermore, localization of assets will be equally valuable in order to get to a higher level of automation. This paper proposes a reference...

Manufacturing machines need to be re-tooled approximately 15 times per week and in the future even more often because of decreasing batch sizes and increasing short-cyclic demands. Collaborative robots promise to offer a versatile automation approach for priorly manual tasks in small and medium-sized enterprises. However, their configuration needs...

5G promises to shift Industry 4.0 to the next level by allowing flexible production. However, many communication standards are used throughout a production site, which will stay so in the foreseeable future. Furthermore, localization of assets will be equally valuable in order to get to a higher level of automation. This paper proposes a reference...

Soft robots are typically intended to operate in highly unpredictable and unstructured environments. Although their soft bodies help them to passively conform to their environment, the execution of specific tasks within such environments often requires the help of an operator that supervises the interaction between the robot and its environment and...

When designing large‐scale products, like airplanes, involving the opinions from end‐users, like passengers, in conceptualization is difficult. Including user evaluation at the early stage is of foremost importance to develop products or services that reach user satisfaction. Comfort‐related assessments are particularly difficult to implement with...

For designing large-scale products like an airplane, engaging end-users in the concept phase is difficult. However, early user evaluation is important to choose the path which fits the user’s needs best. In particular, comfort-related assessments are difficult to conduct with digital models that are shown on a desktop PC application. Digital Human...

How is human-robot interaction considered within the development of new robotic systems by practitioners? This study sets out to inquire, whether the development teams of robotic products have been considering human factor methods in their design and implementation process. We were specifically interested in the non-verbal communication methods the...

For designing large-scale products like an airplane, engaging end-users in the concept phase is difficult. However, early user evaluation is important to choose the path which fits the user's needs best. In particular, comfort related assessments are difficult to conduct with digital models that are shown on a desktop PC application. Digital Human...

Harnessing the emergence of Industry 4.0 is challenging for small-and medium sized enterprises (SME). To overcome the challenges of collaborative robot (cobot) integration in SME manufacturing industry, TU Delft has founded the Cobot Learning Center (COLEAC). With a modular educational framework, future manufacturing workforce is (re)educated to th...

Im Rahmen des Fachdialogs „Mensch-Technik-Interaktion – Arbeiten mit KI“ des Observatoriums Künstliche Intelligenz in Arbeit und Gesellschaft (KI-Observatorium) wirken Vertreter*innen aus Wissenschaft, Gewerkschaften, Unternehmen, Zivilgesellschaft und Verbänden zusammen, um gemeinsam Strategien für ein gutes Mensch-Technik-Verhältnis beim Einsatz...

This paper analyzes the effective accuracy for close-range operations for the first and the second generation of Microsoft HoloLens in combination with Vuforia Image Targets in a black-box approach. The implementation of Augmented Reality (AR) on optical see-through (OST), head-mounted devices (HMDs) has been proven viable for a variety of tasks, s...

Today we stand at the threshold of a new revolution towards Smart Manufacturing, which is leading us to the 4th Industrial Revolution. In a moment like this, companies need to adapt and go beyond existing industrial systems, into Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPS), to achieve added value. With this new revolution comes a new mindset and the n...

The continuing growth in robotics achieves its goal to support humans in monotonous and physically demanding tasks sustainably. However, a robot colleague must, of course, be further developed, programmed, and maintained. Thus, a significant trend towards training in the field of robotics is emerging for a broad target group of teachers and learner...

Bicycle production has not changed much over the last 100 years, it is still performed mainly by manual labor in mass production. During the global pandemic, the demand for ecologically friendly and customized transport has increased. Hence, customers start to impose the same requirements on bikes as on cars: they want more customized products and...

Dieser Artikel zeigt häufige Probleme in der Entwicklung von KI-Systemen (künstliche Intelligenz) auf, wie beispielsweise grundsätzliche Missverständnisse zwischen Anwenderseite und KI-Entwicklungsseite. Diese entstehen durch Defizite an interdisziplinärer Kollaboration sowie Kommunikation und können langfristig zu unerwünschten Folgen für Beschäft...

Voice-enabled assistants, such as Alexa and Google Assistant, are among the fastest-growing information technology applications. Their technological foundation matured over the last years and reached a point where new application areas in challenging business environments become a certainty. Maintenance in manufacturing is one of these areas. This...

This design paper describes the development of custom built interface between a force-replicating virtual reality (VR) haptic interface glove, and a user. The ability to convey haptic information – both kinematic and tactile – is a critical barrier in creating comprehensive simulations. Haptic interface gloves can convey haptic information, but oft...

This document provides a technical report for the 'paintrobot' project, which enables the industrial manipulator model 'UR5' by Universal Robots to paint specifically prepared vector images in .svg-files with wet paint on a canvas. The theory can of course be used for other manipulator models. The source code and the required models for laser-cutti...

In order to support the decision-making process of industry on how to implement Augmented Reality (AR) in production, this article wants to provide guidance through a set of comparative user studies. The results are obtained from the feedback of 160 participants who performed the same repair task on a switch cabinet of an industrial robot. The stud...

To support maintenance and servicing of industrial machines, service processes are even today often performed manually and analogously, although supportive technologies such as augmented reality, virtual reality and digital platforms already exist. In many cases, neither technicians on-site nor remote experts have all the essential information and...

The causes and treatment solutions of congenital heart defects are difficult to address and discuss between patient and doctor. This is mainly due to the complex spatial nature of congenital cardiac defects, which makes it difficult for the patients to envision the defect without prior anatomical knowledge and renders the comprehension largely depe...

Digitization and the growing capabilities of data networks enable companies to perform tasks via remote support, which previously required service personnel to travel. But which mixed reality method leads to better results regarding human factors, grounding and performance criteria? This paper reports on a collaborative user study, in which a local...

This paper describes the development of custom built interface between a force-replicating Virtual Reality (VR) haptic glove, and a user. The ability to convey haptic information -- both kinesthetic and tactile -- is a critical barrier in creating comprehensive simulations. Haptic interface gloves can convey haptic information, but often the haptic...

Travel costs and time consumption play an important role in industrial factory planning; thus many companies intend to use remote assistance and virtual co-location of the workers via software instead. Shared visual context can help in remote assistance scenarios and mixed reality approaches promise to transport the local situation to the external...

Within the European Factory-in-a-day project, the aim is to improve communication between automation integrator and factory owner, in their analysis of feasibility and appropriateness of automating a manual task. A visualisation tool with preconfigured workflows and working principles, with specific focus on efficient human-robot coproduction workf...

This work wants to investigate which visualization method is able to support remote teleanalysis of industrial plants best regarding comprehension, usability and situation awareness. The application goal is the remote optimization of an industrial plant and the examined scenario was generated out of a large data set of a real production entity. The...

This paper puts a finer point to remote telemaintenance with asynchronous access to an industrial production plant and its data. At first, the condition monitoring records the data from the industrial manipulator and transfers it via the Internet to an application. One possible applications for this data, which can run remotely in order to analyze...

This paper broaches the issue of using 2D tracking algorithm frameworks on mobile devices in order to enable cooperative repair tasks in robot-operated industrial production. A local service technician can be supervised remotely by an external expert in the context of telemaintenance. At first we introduce several tracking libraries and test them o...

While teleoperation of technical highly sophisticated systems has already been a wide field of research, especially for space and robotics applications, the automation industry has not yet benefited from its results. Besides the established fields of application, also production lines with industrial robots and the surrounding plant components are...

In practice, remote maintenance of industrial manipulators is performed via telephone support. Recent research in context of “Industry 4.0” or Industrial Internet use internet technologies and Augmented Reality to enhance the situation awareness of external experts. With remote analysis, maintenance scenarios like failure detection and optimization...

Within the project ”MainTelRob”, we research the opportunity to support maintenance tasks over the Internet. We identified, that this requires a specific combination of services, e.g., video streaming, communication services and data transfer. By using the public Internet emerges the need to transfer all data in a secure and confidential way. Howev...

The main focus of this paper is a generic approach to enable both single persons and worldwide distributed teams to analyse and enhance manufacturing plants. This paper describes the state of the art, current challenges, our approach to tackle this task, a first implementation of our solution (FADAT) and the test results from at a real industrial p...

This paper broaches the issue of situation awareness in an industrial robot telemaintenance setting. It covers the specific use case of a motor exchange of the third axis of a Cartesian robot which was supervised remotely. This is a repair task which has never been done remotely in the application domain, particularly not in an active production li...

To extend our system for teleoperation and telemaintenance of industrial machinery we combine it with a rule based analysis framework from our telemedicine system. The goal is to provide a remote expert the ability to analyze industrial machinery data for failure diagnosis or optimization of production processes. We describe the changes we made to...

In practice, remote maintenance of industrial manipulators is performed via telephone support. Recent research in context of "Industry 4.0" or industrial internet use internet technologies and Augmented Reality to enhance the situation awareness of external experts. With remote analysis, maintenance scenarios like failure detection and optimization...

This paper broaches the issue of situation awareness in an industrial robot telemaintenance setting. It covers the specific use case of a motor exchange of the third axis of a Cartesian robot which was supervised remotely. This is a repair task which has never been done remotely in the application domain, particularly not in an active production li...

Remote maintenance of industrial manipulators often is performed via telephone support. Recent approaches in the context of the 'Industry 4.0' consider internet technologies and Augmented Reality (AR) to enhance situation awareness between external experts and local service technicians. We present two AR-based case studies: First, a mobile AR archi...

Der reibungslosen Bedienung von Industrierobotern kommt eine immer größere Bedeutung zu. Jedoch sind Usability-Standards durch die langen Lebenszyklen von Maschinen im Industriebereich im Vergleich zu anderen Technologien noch gering. Im vorliegenden Bericht wurden daher zwei simulierte Robotersteuerungen anhand von drei klassischen Usability-Metho...

Data centers are increasingly becoming larger and dynamic due to virtualization. In order to leverage the performance modeling and prediction techniques, such as Palladio Component Model or Descartes Modeling Language, in such a dynamic environments, it is necessary to automate the model extraction. Building and maintaining such models manually is...

The aim of our research is to develop an industrial internet telecontrol architecture for robots in an active production line. The main objective is to realize teleoperation and telemaintenance tasks, which on the one hand meet user needs of the industry partners and can on the other hand be performed over the common Internet. The involved research...

In the paper we want to share our experiences in developing a new telemaintenance system for industrial robots in an active production environment. This has been achieved within a three-year research project. In this article we describe the design methods we have used, and our evaluation approaches. The challenge of developing user interfaces for t...

Networked Control Systems (NCS) are used for remote control of distributed or non-co-located systems where the control loop is closed via a communication link. Remote access to industrial robotic systems is one of the application fields where robustness and reliability of the closed loop plays a significant role. Caused by the communication chain i...

Nachdem mobile Geräte wie Smartphones und Tablets aus der privaten Nutzung fast nicht mehr wegzudenken sind, erobern sie zunehmend auch den Arbeitsplatz. Mittler-weile verwenden 69% der Angestellten private Endgeräte im Unternehmen (" Bring your own device " [1]) und jeder " Wissensarbeiter " hat 2014 durchschnittlich mehr als drei vernetzte Geräte...

This paper informs about a current challenge in industrial research and our first approaches to address this topic. Industrial robots are shipped to facilities all over the world and the manufacturers' engineers often need to travel far to fix errors. To reduce downtimes and costs, plant manufacturers need easy to use and comprehensive telemaintena...

Nowadays, due to the constantly increasing prices of raw material proper security services are required for companies to protect their inventory of pre-production material or valuable goods. Huge technological and staff budgets are required to apply this course of action for large scale objects and areas. Robotic systems, consisting of multiple het...