Forskning

The overall "Little Helper" project


Figure 1: The Little Helper project umbrella

All projects are related to the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at Aalborg University.  

 

Project overview

 Start    End 
 Funded projects      
 TAPAS - EU FP7  Okt. 2010 - Jan. 2014 
 GISA - EU ECHORD Okt. 2010 - Mar. 2012 
 ROBOCUT - Højteknologifonden  Okt. 2010 - Okt. 2013 
 PhD projects      
 PhD project - Industrial integration and exploitation of mobile manipulation  Jan. 2009 - Dec. 2011 
 PhD project - Modular Architecture and Product Families for AIMM (by Mads Hvilshøj)  Jan. 2009 - Dec. 2011 
 PhD project - STRIPS-like Action Representation for AIMM (by Simon Bøgh)  Jan. 2009 - Dec. 2011 
 PhD project - Title will follow (by Oluf Skov Nielsen)  Okt. 2010 - Sep. 2013 
 Student projects      
 Overall project - The Mobile Robot "Little Helper"  Sep. 2007 -  -
 Student project 1 - Offline Automation and Robotics Simulation      
 Student project 2 - Visualization of the Energy Consumption in a Robot Cell      
 Student project 3 - The Autonomous Industrial Mobile Manipulator Little Helper - Development and Implementation of a Multi Agent Communication and Coordination System in an Industrial Environment (by Gaëtan Séverac)  Sep. 2009 - Dec. 2009 
 Student project 4 - Simulating Little Helper in DELMIA Robotics (by Henrik Reuther)  Sep, 2009 - Dec. 2009 
 Student project 5 - Concept Selection and simulation prior to the Implementation of the Mobile Manipulator Little Helper at Grundfos A/S (by Henrik Reuther) Feb. 2010  - Jun. 2010 
 Student project 6 - (by French exchange students)  Sep. 2010 - Dec. 2010 
 Student project 7 - (by French exchange students)  Sep. 2010 -  Dec. 2010

 

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Publishing

[1] M. Hvilshøj, S. Bøgh, O.Madsen andM. Kristiansen, "The Mobile Robot "Little Helper": Concepts, ideas and working principles", IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, Mallorca, 2009.

[2] M. Hvilshøj, S. Bøgh, O. Madsen and M. Kristiansen, "Calibration Techniques for Industrial Mobile Manipulators Theoretical configurations and Best practices", 41st International Symposium on Robotics (ISR 2010) and 6th German Conference on Robotics (ROBOTIK 2010), Munich, 2010.

[3]  G. Séverac, M. Hvilshøj and S. Bøgh, "XML-Based Multi Agent Communication And Scheduling In Industrial Environments - Case Study; The Mobile Manipulator Little Helper", 12th International MITIP Conference on Information Technology and Innovation Processes of the Enterprises, Aalborg, 2010.

[4] H. Reuther, M. Hvilshøj and S. Bøgh, "Evaluation of Implementing Mobile Manipulators In Existing Industrial Environments using 3D-Simulation - Case Study: TheMobileManipulator "Little Helper" At Grundfos A/S", 12th International MITIP Conference on Information Technology and Innovation Processes of the Enterprises, Aalborg, 2010.