ECHORD Publications

Enriching Europe's scientific robotic community

The experiments conducted under the umbrella of ECHORD present their results on conferences and publish them in scientific journals. Find out more.

 

MAAT
MAAT - Multimodal interfaces to improve therApeutic outcomes in robot-Assisted rehabiliTation The MAAT project aims at developing a new robotic system for the administration of highly...
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MoFTaG
MoFTaG - Model-free flexible trajectory generation The ever increasing demand for just-in time and custom-tailored production calls for fast and flexible reconfigurable work cells and human-robot co-worker applications. We are convinced that redundant robot-arms will play a key role due to their flexibility. Current...
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MONROE
MONROE - Hyper-Modular Open Networked RObot systems with Excellent performance Robots so far suffer from several up to now necessary trade-offs that result in: - Stiff robots are...
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MUCE
MUCE - Modular underwater cleaning equipment There are three partners in the MUCE experiment. WEDA is a market leading producer of professional pool cleaners. KTH is the academic partner and via its Centre for Autonomous Systems provides enabling knowledge in areas of navigation and localization. Intelligent Machines...
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ODEUO
ODEUO - Inner Oscillation Detection and Evaluation of Unknown test Objects The ODEUO experiment aims to take what is a relatively simple job for humans, ie. the detection of spare or...
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OMNIWORKS
OMNIWORKS - Omnidirectional vision for human-UAV co-working OMNIWORKS involves 3 partners with widely experience in visual algorithms and control of Aerial Vehicles (UPM-CVG), developing aerial vehicles (Skybotix) and in the field of engineering and construction (APIA XXI). The aim of OMNIKWORKS is to exploit the growing...
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PRADA
PRADA - Parallel Robot with Adaptive Dynamic Accuracy Following ECHORD philosophy, the PRADA project aims at targeting one scenario – hyperflexible cells – and focuses on complex manipulation; within this scenario and with this focus, control techniques will be experimented on an industrial parallel robot manipulator so that...
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PsyIntEC
PsyIntEC - Psychophysiological interaction and empathetic cognition for human-robot cooperative work PsyIntEC is a feasibility demonstration project targeting safe ergonomic and empathetic adaptation by a robotic system to the needs and characteristics of a human co-worker in a joint human-robot work cell. Inputs to the...
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REMAV
REMAV - Remote eye for micro aerial vehicles The main goal of REMAV is to demonstrate the possibility to precisely and safely operate Micro Aerial Vehicles (small autonomous helicopters) in a dynamically changing environment consisting of fixed obstacles, humans and other MAVs. In order to achieve this goal, an extremely...
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RIVERWATCH
RIVERWATCH - Cooperating robots for monitoring of riverine environments RIVERWATCH aims at the development of an autonomous multi-robot system for ecological monitoring of riverine environments. The multi-robot system will be composed of an autonomous surface vehicle (ASV) with an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) piggybacked on...
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RODIN
RODIN - Robust control of human-robot-environment dynamic interaction for natural stone carving Stone carving is one of the oldest representational arts. However, due to extreme labor-intensive work, difficult operating environment and global cost disadvantages, the traditional European sculpturing recently has become an...
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SPEAKY
SPEAKY - SPEAKY for Robots SPEAKY for Robots (S4R) aims at fostering the definition and deployment of voice user interfaces (VUIs) in robotic applications where human-robot interaction...
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SprayBot
SprayBot - a Robotic Spray Booth for the Automatic Painting of Bodyworks Current body shops offer repairing and painting services for damaged cars/bikes. For this purpose, they boast...
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TACTIP
TACTIP - Tactile fingertip for robots The TACTIP project addresses a number of robotics issues: the need for improved tactile sensors for robot manipulators and the creation of...
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TESBE
TESBE - Technologies for Efficient and Safe Body Extenders Body Extenders are an emerging class of advanced robots that can be worn by human operators to dramatically increase...
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TRAFCON
TRAFCON -Traffic Control of AGVs in Automatic Warehouses Since their introduction in the 1950s, Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) have been being used more and more in manufacturing...
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TUAV
TUAV - Tele-operation of unmanned aerial vehicles An important motivation for the project is drawn from small-scale commercial applications associated with infrastructure inspection tasks. There is a vast number of dangerous, or difficult and uncomfortable inspection tasks that are undertaken in industry on a regular basis....
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