Performance Evaluation of Human Detection Systems for Robot Safety

February 24, 2016

Complete article Abstract: Detecting and tracking people is becoming more important in robotic applications because of the increasing demand for collaborative work in which people interact closely with and in the same workspace as robots. New safety standards allow people to work next to robots, but require that they be protected from harm while they do so. Sensors that detect and track people are a natural way of implementing the …Read More

FourByThree on TV (Tecnopolis, EiTB, in Spanish)

February 19, 2016

Basque Public Television’s (EiTB’s) leading program on science and technology, Tecnopolis, featured a program on human-robot collaboration in industrial settings last Tuesday, February 16. The program was recorded at IK4-TEKNIKER’s headquarters, where different research projects on this field were presented by Iñaki Maurtua, Autonomous and Smart systems Manager, and Loreto Susperregi, Coordinator of Robotics. The video (in Spanish) succeeds at explaining the basics of human-robot collaboration, as well as some of …Read More

FourByThree workshop at Technishow 2016 (Netherlands)

February 15, 2016

FourByThree will attend Technishow 2016, which will be held in Utrecht, Netherlands, on March 15-18 2016. Project partner STODT, in collaboration with IK4-TEKNIKER, is leading the effort to prepare a stand where attendants will have the opportunity to work with a robot in a collaborative way. These demonstrations will provide our researchers with relevant information on the user experience. For the experiment, we will use a table, a collaborative robot …Read More

Three best collaborative robot applications

January 26, 2016

Source: Robotics Industries Association When bathing in a world where robots are a normal part of everyday life, I usually have a reality check when I am meeting customers or doing demos. The thing that I hear the most is: ”What can I do with this robot ?” It is then that I realize that the applications that can be done by robots are not well understood by most of the people …Read More

Video update from Magdeburg, Germany

December 11, 2015

On October, members of the FourByThree consortium traveled to Magdeburg, Germany, for a plenary meeting hosted at Fraunhofer-IFF’s headquarters. This gathering was the perfect occasion to shoot a new video update on the project. In the video, project partners as well as EU expert Sasha Jevtic explain the project’s features, its current status and the next steps. Another video on the projection-based interaction and safeguarding system that Fraunhofer-IFF is developing was …Read More

Workhop at IROS 2015: recap and lessons learned

November 6, 2015

The FourByThree project has the ambitious aim of combining different modalities and innovations achieved within the context of safe human-robot interaction in the latest worldwide robotics research and providing a unified solution for industrial applications. The proposed robotic solution will be a modular system that can be easily customised to fit the end-user’s particular needs, it will be easy to programme and intuitive to use and most importantly, it will …Read More

Robotics Track at ICAPS 2016 (London, June 2016)

October 30, 2015

Source: The ICAPS conference In 2016 ICAPS will run a robotics track as part of the main conference. Following on from successful events in 2014 and 2015, this will again emphasize the importance and opportunities of reuniting the fields of AI planning and (autonomous) robotics. This provides an opportunity for the AI planning and scheduling community to respond to the challenges that robotics applications pose and contribute to the advance of …Read More

FourByThree in Magdeburg, Germany

October 19, 2015

Last week, october 13-15, members of the FourByThree consortium traveled to Magdeburg, Germany, for a plenary meeting. This time the meeting took place at Fraunhofer-IFF’s impressive headquarters, near Otto von Guericke University. The meeting was attended by EU expert Sasha Jevtic, appointed by the European Commission to monitor the project and offer his advice. One of the highlights in the visit was the tour to Fraunhofer-IFF’s facilities. All the members …Read More

Discussing trends in human-robot collaboration

September 23, 2015

The upcoming week, on Friday the 2nd of October, FourByThree will be hosting a workshop on human-robot interaction at IROS 2015, which will be held at Congress Center Hamburg (CCH). Our workshop will focus on safety for human-robot collaboration and some renowned experts will present their reserach and experiments. You can already check the final agenda at fourbythree.eu/iros2015/ The workshop will be an excelent occasion to discuss issues such as …Read More

Projection-based interaction and safeguarding

August 25, 2015

The future of industrial manufacturing and production requires highly flexible work cells that are able to combine automation with tasks traditionally done manually. But such cooperation between humans and robots in close proximity requires the safeguarding of the human at all times. As traditional safety systems like fences, laser scanners, or pressure sensitive mats are too cumbersome or not applicable for these scenarios, we have noticed a lot of development …Read More

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