Teaching Robots To Reproduce Human Movements

Having both does not make you a juggler. The same principle applies in the field of robotics, where even the most intelligent and the reception is programmed to move according to a particular task. laser tracking systems based on robotics to use the method to achieve, but the Fraunhofer scientists are working to improve significantly the process of the device, which uses inertial sensors to monitor the movement of free space. In other words, you can teach the robot new tricks, just pointing out that requires intervention.

The key system is its ability to analyze the functioning of the sensors on the input device to interact.

"We have developed special algorithms to combine data from different sensors to identify a circulation model," says Project Manager Bernhard Kleiner Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA in Stuttgart. "This means we can detect motion in space."

The result is billed as a more simple and less of the laser tracking and camera-based approaches, and researchers over the arms of the possible applications of industrial robots - for example, could be used to walking in the analysis and helps to manage engines for active implants.

"With the system of inertial sensors, gait analysis can be done without a framework and without complex camera," says Kleiner.

Researchers are also working to integrate the system of EMG sensors that detect movement of the muscles to improve the regulation of the prosthesis.

"Although the standard EMG sensors consist of individual electrodes are placed on the root of the flesh, the system consists of many small electrodes that attach area. It helps to know a lot of muscle movements and reliable," says Kleiner.

The system will be exhibited at Sensor + Test in Nuremberg on June 7 to 9, where visitors can see how difficult it is to see a robotic arm (with catcher's mitt) how to catch a ball.