ROBOTONT - Open-source and ROS-supported omnidirectional mobile robot for education and research.

In order to achieve visionary concepts such as Society 5.0 and Industry 5.0, there is a growing need for people who are able to create innovative robotic technologies.

Scalable and heterogenous mobile robot fleet-based task automation in crowded hospital environments-a field test.

In hospitals, trained medical staff are often, in addition to performing complex procedures, spending valuable time on secondary tasks such as transporting samples and medical equipment; or even guiding patients and visitors around the premises. If these non-medical tasks were automated by deploying mobile service robots, more time can be focused on treating patients or allowing well-deserved rest for the potentially overworked healthcare professionals. Automating such tasks requires a human-aware robotic mobility system that can among other things navigate the hallways of the hospital; predictively avoid collisions with humans and other dynamic obstacles; coordinate task distribution and area coverage within a fleet of robots and other IoT devices; and interact with the staff, patients and visitors in an intuitive way.

Fast Adaptation of Manipulator Trajectories to Task Perturbation by Differentiating through the Optimal Solution.

Joint space trajectory optimization under end-effector task constraints leads to a challenging non-convex problem. Thus, a real-time adaptation of prior computed trajectories to perturbation in task constraints often becomes intractable. Existing works use the so-called warm-starting of trajectory optimization to improve computational performance.