Wheelbot für Auszeichnung bei führender Robotik-Konferenz nominiert
Unsere Forschungsarbeit The Wheelbot: A Jumping Reaction Wheel Unicycle, veröffentlicht in den IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), ist für den "Best Entertainment and Amusement Paper Award" der IROS 2022 nominiert worden. Die IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) ist eine der größten und bedeutendsten Robotik-Forschungskonferenzen weltweit. Von den ca. 1700 auf der IROS 2022 vorgestellten Papern wurden drei als Finalist für den "IROS Best Entertainment and Amusement Paper Award" nominiert.
The Wheelbot is the first symmetric reaction wheel unicycle robot that can jump up on its wheels from any configuration after toppling. While the robot is simple in its mechanical design, it possesses challenging dynamical properties that renders it an ideal platform for research evolving around data-driven and nonlinear control. Moreover, the Wheelbot shall assist in introducing students to robotics and control theory. The Wheelbot is used as a testbed in different research projects at DSME.
For the Wheelbot's development, Prof. Sebastian Trimpe and his team at RWTH Aachen University joined forces with Jonathan Fiene, head of the ZWE Robotics laboratory at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS). Lead researcher behind the development of the Wheelbot is A. René Geist who was a Ph.D. student at the Intelligent Control Systems Group of the MPI-IS under supervision of Prof. Trimpe and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at DSME.
A. René Geist hat die Arbeit persönlich auf der IROS-Konferenz in Kyoto vorgestellt.
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