The cooperation between man and technology will continue to increase in future industrial systems. Automation continues to advance, and at the same time the role of humans in production is changing towards monitoring and control.
On the way there, many workstations will be equipped with more automation, with which interfaces must be interacted effectively. This includes robust and fault-tolerant perception of the environment and the people acting in it, flexible and safe robot control, fast and effective situational awareness, attention control, as well as predictive modelling, recognition and prediction of human activity.
The research goal of the group is to facilitate this close cooperation between humans and robots.
The focus is on
- robust and reliable methods for the detection and tracking (monitoring) of people and objects in a facility
- force-controlled compliant robots
- Augmented Reality for on-site monitoring and control of complex technical systems
- Virtual Reality for the maintenance, control and programming of complex environments, also over a distance and as a platform for the education and training of employees.
The work with the robot systems has been carried out as part of the Tipi-Fab for some time now.
Persons 
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Pedro Fernando Arizpe Gomez
E-Mail: PedroFernando.ArizpeGomez(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-741, Room: E66
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Dr. rer. nat. Tim Claudius Stratmann
E-Mail: Tim.Stratmann(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-431, Room: O88
Projects
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METRICS
Metrological Evaluation and Testing of Robots in International Competitions
Duration: 2019 - 2022O
Publications
2021
Acceptance of Industrial Collaborative Robots by People With Disabilities in Sheltered Workshops
Sandra Drolshagen, Max Pfingsthorn, Pascal Gliesche, Andreas Hein; Frontiers in Robotic and AI; 02 / 2021
From Multi-Modal Property Dataset to Robot-Centric Conceptual Knowledge About Household Objects
Thosar, Madhura and Mueller, Christian A. and Jäger, Georg and Schleiss, Johannes and Pulugu, Narender and Mallikarjun Chennaboina, Ravi and Rao Jeevangekar, Sai Vivek and Birk, Andreas and Pfingsthorn, Max and Zug, Sebastian; Frontiers in Robotics and AI; 04 / 2021
Less is more! Support of Parallel and Time-critical Assembly Tasks with Augmented Reality
Illing, Jannike and Klinke, Philipp and Pfingsthorn, Max and Heuten, Wilko; Mensch und Computer 2021; September / 2021
2020
HiveFive: Immersion Preserving Attention Guidance in Virtual Reality
Lange, Daniel and Stratmann, Tim Claudius and Gruenefeld, Uwe and Boll, Susanne; Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems; April / 2020
Kinesthetic Device vs. Keyboard/Mouse: A Comparison in Home Care Telemanipulation
Gliesche, Pascal and Krick, Tobias and Pfingsthorn, Max and Drolshagen, Sandra and Kowalski, Christian and Hein, Andreas; Frontiers in Robotics and AI; 11 / 2020
Mind the ARm: Realtime Visualization of Robot Motion Intent in Head-mounted Augmented Reality
Uwe Gruenefeld, Lars Prädel, Jannike Illing, Tim Stratmann, Sandra Drolshagen, Max Pfingsthorn; Mensch und Computer 2020 - Tagungsband; 2020
Robotic Assistance in Nursing Care: Survey on Challenges and Scenarios
Gliesche, Pascal and Seibert, Kathrin and Kowalski, Christian and Domhoff, Dominik and Pfingsthorn, Max and Wolf-Ostermann, Karin and Hein, Andreas; International Journal of Biomedical and Biological Engineering; 09 / 2020
Substitute Selection for a Missing Tool Using Robot-Centric Conceptual Knowledge of Objects
Thosar, Madhura and Mueller, Christian A. and Jaeger, Georg and Pfingsthorn, Max and Beetz, Michael and Zug, Sebastian and Mossakowski, Till; Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing; 3 / 2020
Time is Money! Evaluating Augmented Reality Instructions for Time-Critical Assembly Tasks
Jannike Illing, Philipp Klinke, Uwe Grünefeld, Max Pfingsthorn, Wilko Heuten; 19th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia; 2020
Towards Whole Arm Manipulation for Outpatient Care
Gliesche, Pascal and Kowalski, Christian and Pfingsthorn, Max and Hein, Andreas; Robots for Health and Elderly Care - RoboHEC; 10 / 2020
