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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Dr.-Ing. Pedro Fernando Arizpe Gomez
E-Mail: PedroFernando.ArizpeGomez(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-741, Room: E66
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Dr.-Ing. Sandra Drolshagen
E-Mail: Sandra.Drolshagen(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-713, Room: Flx-P
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Dr. rer. nat. Tim Claudius Stratmann
E-Mail: Tim.Stratmann(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-431, Room: Flx-P
Projects
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METRICS
Metrological Evaluation and Testing of Robots in International Competitions
Duration: 2020 - 2023O
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PLATON
Distributed computing platform for radar-based 3D environment sensing in safe autonomous driving
Duration: 2022 - 2025R
ReHOpE
Reduktion körperlicher Belastungen von Handwerksberufen durch optimierte Exoskelette
Duration: 2022 - 2025S
STEP-UP
Smart technologies for standard-compliant process control and worker support in adhesive manufacturing processes
Duration: 2019 - 2021 Publications
2024
A Coarse-to-Fine Method for Data-Efficient Collaborative Place Recognition
Furuno, Eike and Hein, Andreas and Stratmann, Tim C. and Pfingsthorn, Max; 2024 9th International Conference on Control and Robotics Engineering (ICCRE); 2024
Improving Work Skills in People with Disabilities in a Long-Term, In-Field Study on Robotic Tutors
Drolshagen, Sandra and Pfingsthorn, Max and Hein, Andreas; International Journal of Social Robotics; October / 2024
Keep the Human in the Loop: Arguments for Human Assistance in the Synthesis of Simulation Data for Robot Training
Liebers, Carina and Megarajan, Pranav and Auda, Jonas and Stratmann, Tim C. and Pfingsthorn, Max and Gruenefeld, Uwe and Schneegass, Stefan; Multimodal Technologies and Interaction; 2024
Look Over Here! Comparing Interaction Methods for User-Assisted Remote Scene Reconstruction
Liebers, Carina and Pfützenreuter, Niklas and Prochazka, Marvin and Megarajan, Pranav and Furuno, Eike and Löber, Jan and Stratmann, Tim C. and Auda, Jonas and Degraen, Donald and Gruenefeld, Uwe and Schneegass, Stefan; Extended Abstracts of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems; 2024
Towards automated self-administered motor status assessment: Validation of a depth camera system for gait feature analysis
Pedro Arizpe-Gómez and Kirsten Harms and Kathrin Janitzky and Karsten Witt and Andreas Hein; Biomedical Signal Processing and Control; 2024
2023
Context-Aware Robotic Assistive System: Robotic Pointing Gesture-Based Assistance for People with Disabilities in Sheltered Workshops
Drolshagen, Sandra and Pfingsthorn, Max and Hein, Andreas; Robotics; 2023
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
