Team Description: | The Institute for Systems Engineering (ISE) deals with the modelling, simulation, analysis and realisation of hardware and software architectures of complex and technical systems.
The Real Time Systems Group (RTS) is part of the Institute for Systems Engineering. Head of the RTS is Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernardo Wagner. The RTS focuses its work on the fields of distributed automation systems and mobile service robots. Such systems have to interact with real surroundings in a correct, reliable and secure way and furthermore with deterministic time response, that is in real time.
The RTS runs two mobile platforms that are capable of driving un urban outdoor environments. RTS-Dora is a car like platform based on the robosoft robucar that is able to carry 150kg payload and drive up to 18km/h. The RTS-MoRob-Kit is a modular and compact platform that can be customized based on the application and the available sensors.
The navigation algorithms that are implemented on out robots are based on sensor data fusion laser, inertial and GPS data. Our focus lies on the incorporation of 3D sensor data into robot tasks like localization and obstacle avoidance. The localization system that we are going to use in the urban scenario of ELROB2006 is based on a digital site plan that contains all buildings in the environment. All other static and dynamic obstacles are integrated into the map in real-time. The required digital site plan (ALK Automatisierte Liegenschaftskarte) can be obtained from the German land registry office or can be manually generated from site plans 1:1000 and aerial views.
During ELROB2006 we are going to demonstrate autonomous driving in urban environments, drive assistance for remote operation with low bandwidth and 3D visual feedback for remote operation.
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