Multi-Robot Human Collaboration - Innovation Award 2017 Finalist Spotlight

KUKA Innovation Award 2017 – Finalist Spotlight Multi-Robot Human Collaboration | Team MANCHU | EPFL-LASA Switzerland Application: Multiple robot arms in collaboration with a human Challenge: Manipulating large, heavy, unwieldy objects using two robots in collaboration with humans Solution: Robots move in coordination both with each other and the object being presented by a human Features: • Vision system tracks object location in space • Dynamic motion planning coordinates robots with object • Can work with wide variety of part sizes, weights and shapes • Robots seamlessly transition from manual guidance to automatic operation after hand-off • Safe motion planning through self-collision avoidance Institutions and Team Members: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Learning Algorithms and Systems Laboratory (LASA) Seyed Sina Mirrazavi Salehian Nadia Figueroa Prof. Aude Billard Read more about collaborative robots: