Module RO5800-KP08

Duration

2 Semester

Turnus of offer

each year, can be started in winter or summer semester

Credit points

8

Course of studies, specific fields and terms:

• Master Robotics and Autonomous Systems 2019, optional subject, Elective

Classes and lectures:

• Rescue Robotics (exercise, 2 SWS)
• Rescue Robotics (lecture, 2 SWS)
• Advanced Topics in Robotics (exercise, 1 SWS)
• Advanced Topics in Robotics (lecture, 2 SWS)

Workload:

• 95 hours private studies
• 105 hours in-classroom work
• 40 hours exam preparation

Contents of teaching:

• Content of teaching of the course Advanced Topics in Robotics:
• Motion Planning for Robots
• Augmented Reality
• Design of Robot Systems
• Intracorporal Robotics
• Dynamics and Control of Robots
• Content of teaching of the course Rescue Robotics:
• Special requirements for disaster management and response and the resulting consequences on rescue robot design.
• Information structures for rescue systems
• Information exchange between rescue robots
• Command and control systems for search and rescue robots
• Tactical communication for cooperative SAR robot missions as well as interoperability in heterogeneous teams.
• Design guidelines for human interfaces to rescue robots
• Casualty and vital sign detection in rescue scenarios
• Medical assistance at the scene of incident and determination of vital signs
• Evaluation and benchmarking of SAR robots

Qualification-goals/Competencies:

• Educational objectives of the course Advanced Topics in Robotics:
• Students understand the connection to underlying mathematical methods, especially in dynamics, optimization, and sensor data processing and analysis of algorithms.
• Students have an extended overview of application areas for robotics.
• They are able to implement such methods and derive new applications based on such methods.
• Educational objectives of the course Rescue Robotics:
• The students can apply the tools to program and simulate mobile rescue robots. They have developed a good overview about mobile robotics, localization and path planning in difficult scenarios.
• The students have knowledge about the work and command structures of rescue personell and the requirements on control, communcation and interaction of rescue robots with the personnel.
• The students have developed a notion of medical first response by rescue personnel as well as technical solutions to locate missing persons, determine vital signs and realize medical assistance at the scene of incident.

Grading through:

• written exam, oral exam and/or presentation as announced by the examiner

Requires:

• Robotics (CS2500-KP04, CS2500)

Responsible for this module:

• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Achim Schweikard

Teacher:

• Institute for Robotics and Cognitive Systems
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Achim Schweikard
• Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Floris Ernst

Literature:

• Achim Schweikard, Floris Ernst : Medical Robotics Springer, 2015, Jocelyne Troccaz (ed.): Medical Robotics, Wiley, 2009
• Tadokoro, Satoshi, ed. : Rescue robotics: DDT project on robots and systems for urban search and rescue. Springer Science & Business Media, 2009. (ISBN: 978-1447157656).
• Siciliano, Bruno, and Oussama Khatib, eds. : Springer handbook of robotics. Springer, 2016. (ISBN: 978-3319325507)

Language:

• offered only in English

Notes:

Last Updated:

20.01.2025