Lab Course Humanoid Robots
Robots are versatile systems, that provide vast opportunities for active research and various operations. Humanoid robots, for example, have a human-like body, and thus can act in environments designed for humans. They are able to, e.g., climb stairs, walk through cluttered environments, and open doors. Mobile robots with a wheeled base are designed to operate on flat grounds to perform, e.g., cleaning and service tasks. Robotic arms are able to grasp and manipulate objects.
Participants will work in group of 2 or 3 on one of the possible topics.
At the end of the semester each group will give a presentation and demonstration of their project accompanied by oral moderation. The whole presentation should be approximately 10 minutes long. Every member of the group should present his/her part in the development of the system in a few sentences/slides. When the presentation is complete, each group will be asked a few questions by the HRL staff members or preferably the other students. Everyone is required to be present and to watch the presentation of the other groups.
Aside from the final demonstration, every group is required to submit a lab report. The report is due on the morning before the demonstration. Please describe the task you had to solve, in what ways you approached the solution, what parts your system consists of, special difficulties you may have encountered, and how to compile and use your software. Please include a sufficient number of illustrations. Apart from the content, there are no formal requirements to this document. It is sufficient to submit one lab report per group, it must be pushed to the group's git repository before the lab presentation.
The grade of the lab will depend on the final presentation and how well the assigned task was solved (30/70).
Participants are expected to have Ubuntu Linux installed on their personal computers. The specific requirements for each project are quoted below.
The mandatory Introductory Meeting take place in person (see important dates below).
Semester:
SSYear:
2025Course Number:
MA-INF 4214Links:
BasisCourse Start Date:
10.04.2025Course End Date:
30.09.2025ECTS:
9Responsible HRL Lecturers:
Important dates:
All interested students have to attend the Introductory Meeting. In the Introductory Meeting, we will present the projects, the schedule, the registration process, and answer your questions.
After the Introductory Meeting, each participant arranges an individual schedule with the respective supervisor.
Registration
The registration opens after the introductory meeting.
Report and presentation template
Please use the following template for the written summary:
[Report template]
Please use the following template for midterm and final presentation:
[Presentation template]
Projects (more to come):
LLM meets robotics (industry project)
Supervisor: Benedikt Kreis
The goal of the project is to pick unknown objects from a moving conveyor belt and sort them into different bins. Instead of hard coded control commands, the robot has to exploit capabilities of LLMs (Large Language Models) and VLMs (Visial Language Models). This project is offered in collaboration with a local industry partner.
Find the viewpoint!
Supervisor: Sicong Pan
The task is to find the viewpoint of the given RGB image within the context of an eye-in-hand tabletop configuration.