Agile Robotics: It’s about software at least as much as about hardware

Kurzfassung

What are the main challenges towards robots that act at human-compatible speed in daily environments? Our robots are today slower and/or less powerful than humans. Exploitation of intrinsic elasticities by appropriate control and planning approaches might provide a step forward. However, wat makes our robots really slow is our software: perception, planning, task execution, error recognition and recovery – all these elements are today mostly far from real time. The complex and often inefficient middleware is a further element which massively slows down execution. Moreover, agility of robotic applications begins at the programming of tasks – which is today time consuming and reserved to experts. The talk will try to highlight some of the DLR approaches towards solving the above mentioned points.