Little Helper, mobile manipulator, Robotics & Automation Group, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

Robotics-enabled Logistics and Assistive Services for the Transformable Factory of the Future (TAPAS) is a project funded by the European Commission within FP7.

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This video shows a 3D simulation of the mobile manipulator "Little Helper" (from the Department of Production, Aalborg University) performing continuous part feeding at the Danish pump manufacturing company Grundfos A/S. The application has to be implemented in a real world environment within 2010.

The 3D simulation has been carried in the software DELMIA Robotics.

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A video presentation from ISR (International Symposium on Robotics) 2010 in Munich showing the Mobile Manipulator "Little Helper" (from the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Aalborg University) in action.

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The robot KUKA LWR mounted on Little Helper ++ is learning how to pick and place an object via force input

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This video shows the month 6 demonstration (early 2011) from the EU FP7 project TAPAS (Robotics-enabled Logistics and Assistive Services for the Transformable Factory of the Future) - a collaboration between Aalborg University and Grundfos A/S.

The mobile manipulator "Little Helper" carries out continuous part feeding at a real-world industrial production line at Grundfos in Bjerringbro, Denmark. The experiments were conducted over a period of three production days.

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Assembly of sub-components for water pumps using robot skills with the Aalborg University Little Helper and KUKA omniRob mobile manipulators.
- Robot skills
- Kinesthetic teaching
- Force control
- Autonomous navigation
- Motion planner
- Continues quality control of the assembly process using vision and force sensing
- Mission planning

The TAPAS project is funded by the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement no 260026.

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Device-Free Robot Programming on Aalborg University's Little Helper robot.

Three robot skills are programmed using kinesthetic teaching:
1) Recognize
2) Pick (with 3D vision)
3) Place (with force sensing)

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