A new SARAFun article is now available which will also be available in IngentaConnect within the June 2017 Impact issue.

Our colleagues from Lund University will present their recent research results at  (ACC) 2017.

Linear Parameter Varying Spectral Decomposition, Fredrik Bagge Carlson, Anders Robertsson, Rolf Johansson.

Recent results from SARAFun will be presented at World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC World Congress) 2017. Congrats to the authors!

On Prescribed Contact Establishment, George S. Kanakis, George A. Rovithakis, Zoe Doulgeri.

Two-Degree-of-Freedom Control for Trajectory Tracking and Perturbation Recovery during Execution of Dynamical Movement Primitives, Martin Karlsson, Fredrik Bagge Carlson, Anders Robertsson, Rolf Johansson.

There will be two papers from our colleagues presented  at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2017:

Autonomous Interpretation of Demonstrations for Modification of Dynamical Movement Primitives, Martin Karlsson, Anders Robertsson, Rolf Johansson.

Grasp Quality Evaluation Done Right: How Assumed Contact Force Bounds Affect Wrench-Based Quality Metrics, Robert Krug, Yasemin Bekiroglu, Maximo A. Roa.

An article entitled Teaching Assembly by Demonstration using Advanced Human Robot Interaction and a Knowledge Integration Framework, has been accepted for presentation at International Conference on Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing (FAIM 2017). This is a joint publication between Lund University, CERTH and ABB. Congrats to our colleagues!

We are organizing a workshop: Human in-the-loop robotic manipulation: on the influence of the human role at IROS 2017.

We are organizing a workshop on Teaching by Demonstration for Industrial Applications at ERF 2017.

SARAFun was presented by Mikael Hedelind (ABB) at the conference Re-Industrialisation of the European Union 2016, in Bratislava, as an enabler for collaborative robots that can be used to make Europe stronger.

Link to event

The Thessaloniki International Fair is one of the largest fairs of Greece. It is divided into several thematic structures and open for trade visitors as well as consumers. Many cultural and entertainment events conducted during the fair transform it into a great festival.

Dates: 10-18 September, 2016

Link to fair webpage

CERTH made a demonstration at the fair using the ABB YuMi robot based on SARAFun results.

For a quick view of the SARAFun project and some examples of results from the first project year, please download the project leaflet.

SARAFun Leaflet April 2016