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Experimental Robotics V

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Key items in the development of a new smart robot generation are explained by hand of DLR’s recent activities in robotics research. These items are the design of multisensory gripper and articulated hands systems, ultra-light-weight links and joint drive systems with integrated joint torque control, learning and self-improvement of the dynamical behaviour, modelling the environment using sensorfusion, and new sensor-based off-line programming techniques based on teaching by showing in a virtual environment.

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  1. DLR (German Aerospace Research Establishment), Institute of Robotics and System Dynamics Oberpfaffenhofen, D-82234, Wessling, Germany

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Hirzinger, G., Arbter, K., Brunner, B., Koeppe, R. (1998). Towards a new Robot Generation. In: Casals, A., de Almeida, A.T. (eds) Experimental Robotics V. Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, vol 232. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0112946

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