The next project to be started in the Department of Mechatronics is the KIMKO. Its aim is to develop a robot system consisting of a mobile platform, two lightweight robots and stereo cameras for use in a 3D printing farm. The main research topic within this project is the collisionfree online trajectory planning for the manipulators and the mobile platform as well as their coordination in order to navigate autonomosly and to cooperatively plan and perform the robot motions/tasks in a confined place. Due to the high structural flexibility, model-based predictive control strategies are used for trajectories generation, whereas AI-based machine vision methods are beeing considered for the environment perception and online map generation (SLAM). It will start on 1st August.
KIMKO
Funded by: AiF-Projekt GmbHG, BMWi
Time span: August 2019 − December 2021