Coordinators: Bernd Radig, Frank Schiller

The research results from the other research areas will be integrated, specialized, embodied, and empirically analyzed in three scenarios:

• Cognitive mobile vehicles:

  Coordinators: Hans-Joachim Wünsche, Gerd Hirzinger

  aerial vehicles for inner-city surveillance and terrestrial vehicles participating in normal traffic on public roads demonstrating advanced autonomous behavior.

• Cognitive humanoid robots:

  Coordinators: Heinz Ulbrich

  the two-legged humanoid robots Johnnie and Lola are equipped with lightweight arms and multi-fingered hands from DLR build the main platforms. Mobile-platform-based robots with locomotion, sensing, and manipulation abilities will be intermediate demonstration plattforms until the humanoids are deployable in unconstrained environments. The demonstration scenarios will feature complex everyday activity, complex full body motion, and sophisticated manipulation.

• Cognitive factory:

  Coordinators: Michael Zäh

  In the cognitive factory we consider a production line for individualized manufacturing of car bodies. The line comprises a metal forming machine that applies cognitive capabilities in order to adapt its forming actions to the respective work piece based on how the piece rects to forces. The machine is also capable of automatically acquiring robust forming skills, given the respective CAD models. Another production step requires the fitting of parts into the car body in joint human robot action. To be appropriate for make-to-order production the production line includes autonomous mobile robots with manipulators in order to achieve the necessary flexibility of machine usage.