Delft Robotics Institute
Kick-off meeting, December 14, 2010
Robert Babuska
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2011Control & Robotics
Intelligent
Delft Center for Systems and Control
Faculty 3mE
r.babuska@tudelft.nl
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Goals & Agenda
Goals of the meeting:
• Introduce the members & their research areas
• Start working as the robotics community at TU
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1. A quick introduction round (all)
5 min
9:00
2. Mission of Delft Robotics Institute (Robert Babuska)
10 min
9:05
3. Presentation by Karel Luyben
15 min
9:15
10 min
9:30
60 min
10:30
6. Break - coffee, tea, refreshment
15 min
10:45
7. Valorization opportunities (Richard van der Linde)
10 min
10:55
5 min
11:00
15 min
11:15
4. Duwind (Gijs van Kuik)
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5. Presentations of participating groups
8. Next steps (Robert Babuska)
9. Discussion (all)
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Introduction Round
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Robotics – State of the Art
• high speed, accuracy, repeatability in structured environments
- fully preprogrammed robots, no collaboration with humans
• some success in telerobotics / haptics
- Da Vinci surgical robot, training of medical personnel
• so far, little impact in domestic and service applications
- cleaning, home assistance – so far simple, naïve solutions
Challenges
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• autonomy and shared autonomy (robots collaborate with humans)
• adaptability to cope with unstructured environments
• intrinsically safe human-machine interaction
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Essential needs
• adequate sensors, perception, actuators
• dexterous hands and safe manipulators
• advanced control and planning under uncertainty
• skill learning and transfer, and more …
Robotics is highly interdisciplinary:
with strong interdependence between different areas
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Substantial progress only possible if different areas
are advanced in a coordinated fashion!
Important constraint: performance at reasonable price.
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Outlook
In 10 years the technology will be ready to make a major step forward
in using robots outside the narrow range of today’s applications.
We need to invest now!
Positive short-term effects:
• New high-tech companies
• Job opportunities
• Technological impact on other industries
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Long term: robotics is an essential technology to address pressing issues
of the mankind
• ageing society (lack of labor, quality of life)
• depletion of resources in accessible locations
• transportation and logistics
• saving energy, costs, improving quality
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Robotics @ TU Delft
Currently:
• Strong research groups in many of the constituting areas, such as:
- bipedal locomotion
- advanced control
- human-machine interaction
- multi-agent systems
- …
Impact of publications, prizes, Veni, Vidi grants, etc.
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but,
so far
• collaboration on an ad hoc basis, the potential not fully used yet
• limited impact on industry
• international impact can be increased as well
- academic impact
- contribution to roadmaps, new research programs
- European and other international projects
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• Community with focus, complementary with other Dutch universities
• Major academic impact
• Coordinated approach to fund acquisition, incl. strategic funding by TU
• Strong link to high-tech industry in the region
• Joint contribution to education – BSc projects, robotics minor, MSc
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Participating Groups
3mE
TBM
Biomechanical Engineering
Precision and Microsystems Engineering
Delft Center for Systems and Control
EWI
Man-Machine Interaction
Embedded Software
Software Engineering
Pattern recognition
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Research Lab
Moral Philosophy and Technology
Systems Engineering
Section ICT
IO
Mechatronics
Physical Ergonomics
BK
Hyperbody
LR
Control & Simulation
14 groups, 32 staff, about 30 PhD students (est.), more than 20 robotic platforms,
software tools and demonstrators (incl. TUD Science Center), …
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Suggested Thematic Clusters
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Mechatronics and bio-inspired systems
– mechanics, sensors and actuators
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Real-time perception
– vision and other sensory inputs, making sense of data
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Cognition and human-machine interface
– high-level cognition, awareness, interaction
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Intelligent control, adaptation and learning
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– task planning, control, adaptation, self-improvement
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Embedded systems, hardware and software
– software and hardware architecture
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Multi-agent and distributed robotic systems
– communication, negotiation, swarms
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Application Domains
• Healthcare, rehabilitation and healthy life support
• Home and office (services)
• Agriculture and industry
• Exploration, off-shore, deep see
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• Logistics and transport
Will not work on all simultaneously, need to select a common case
to start with.
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Common case
• Industrial interest (potential)
• Connects to some of the major TU themes and external events
• Expertise available at TU
• Fits interests of as many as possible participating groups
• Fits in the long-term vision of the Institute
• Join competitions (e.g., robocup@home)
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Some possibilities:
- service robot, butler, caring assistant
- underwater robot (cleaning, welding, etc.)
- rehabilitation / exoskeleton
- exploration, search and rescue robot
- agriculture / greenhouse robot
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Questions, comments?
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Next steps
• Work out the common case
• Define the clusters in terms of content and participation
• Establish a steering group for the Institute
• one representative per faculty (full professor?)
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Richard van der Linden
• Robert Babuska
Short-term goal – define a plan of substantial volume to be
presented to the university board.
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To do list
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