TY - GEN
T1 - Teaching and implementing autonomous robotic lab walkthroughs in a biotech laboratory through model-based visual tracking
AU - Wojtczyk, Martin
AU - Panin, Giorgio
AU - Röder, Thorsten
AU - Lenz, Claus
AU - Nair, Suraj
AU - Heidemann, Rüdiger
AU - Goudar, Chetan
AU - Knoll, Alois
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - After utilizing robots for more than 30 years for classic industrial automation applications, service robots form a constantly increasing market, although the big breakthrough is still awaited. Our approach to service robots was driven by the idea of supporting lab personnel in a biotechnology laboratory. After initial development in Germany, a mobile robot platform extended with an industrial manipulator and the necessary sensors for indoor localization and object manipulation, has been shipped to Bayer HealthCare in Berkeley, CA, USA, a global player in the sector of biopharmaceutical products, located in the San Francisco bay area. The determined goal of the mobile manipulator is to support the off-shift staff to carry out completely autonomous or guided, remote controlled lab walkthroughs, which we implement utilizing a recent development of our computer vision group: OpenTL - an integrated framework for model-based visual tracking.
AB - After utilizing robots for more than 30 years for classic industrial automation applications, service robots form a constantly increasing market, although the big breakthrough is still awaited. Our approach to service robots was driven by the idea of supporting lab personnel in a biotechnology laboratory. After initial development in Germany, a mobile robot platform extended with an industrial manipulator and the necessary sensors for indoor localization and object manipulation, has been shipped to Bayer HealthCare in Berkeley, CA, USA, a global player in the sector of biopharmaceutical products, located in the San Francisco bay area. The determined goal of the mobile manipulator is to support the off-shift staff to carry out completely autonomous or guided, remote controlled lab walkthroughs, which we implement utilizing a recent development of our computer vision group: OpenTL - an integrated framework for model-based visual tracking.
KW - Service robotics
KW - Visual tracking
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77951707638&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1117/12.839144
DO - 10.1117/12.839144
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77951707638
SN - 9780819479327
T3 - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
BT - Proceedings of SPIE-IS and T Electronic Imaging - Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XXVII
T2 - Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XXVII: Algorithms and Techniques
Y2 - 18 January 2010 through 19 January 2010
ER -