Wissenschaft & Publikationen

TWIN4TRUCKS steht für den Transfer wissenschaftlicher Forschungsergebnisse in die industrielle Praxis. Die folgenden Publikationen sind rund um das Projekt TWIN4TRUCKS entstanden.

27. Juni 2024

Model Predictive Control Based Reference Generation for Optimal Proportional Integral Derivative Control

Fatos Gashi, Khalil Abuibaid, Martin Ruskowski, Achim Wagner

We introduce an alternative approach towards optimal proportional integral derivative (PID) control, consisting of model predictive control (MPC) based reference generation. To this end, we have integrated the reference as part of optimization variables of the resulting problem, where a deliberate sequence of errors is induced to obtain an optimal PID control action. In addition, the desired behavior of the PID controller is achieved without the need for internal modification of the PID gains. To better highlight the ability of coping with poor PID tuning, several test cases consisting of progressively degraded PID gains are presented. Validation of the proposed strategy is displayed by comprehensive simulations using two different plants.
 
 

11. August 2023

U-RED: Unsupervised 3D Shape Retrieval and Deformation for Partial Point Clouds

Yan DiChenyangguang ZhangRuida ZhangFabian ManhardtYongzhi SuJason RambachDidier StrickerXiangyang JiFederico Tombari

In this paper, we propose U-RED, an Unsupervised shape REtrieval and Deformation pipeline that takes an arbitrary object observation as input, typically captured by RGB images or scans, and jointly retrieves and deforms the geometrically similar CAD models from a pre-established database to tightly match the target. Considering existing methods typically fail to handle noisy partial observations, U-RED is designed to address this issue from two aspects. First, since one partial shape may correspond to multiple potential full shapes, the retrieval method must allow such an ambiguous one-to-many relationship. Thereby U-RED learns to project all possible full shapes of a partial target onto the surface of a unit sphere. Then during inference, each sampling on the sphere will yield a feasible retrieval. Second, since real-world partial observations usually contain noticeable noise, a reliable learned metric that measures the similarity between shapes is necessary for stable retrieval. In U-RED, we design a novel point-wise residual-guided metric that allows noise-robust comparison. Extensive experiments on the synthetic datasets PartNet, ComplementMe and the real-world dataset Scan2CAD demonstrate that U-RED surpasses existing state-of-the-art approaches by 47.3%, 16.7% and 31.6% respectively under Chamfer Distance.

01. August 2023

Skill-basierte Intralogistik: Transport von Produkten an Produktionsmodule durch mobile Roboter

Benjamin Blumhofer, Alexandra Ritter, Jesko Hermann, Martin Ruskowski

There is a trend towards developing individualized solutions in the context of product exchange between production modules and autonomous mobile robots (AMR). These solutions are typically implemented via a central controller, utilizing pre-programmed processes and a fixed physical positioning of the AMR. Unfortunately, such solutions can be expensive and difficult to transfer to other implementations. Skill-based production offers a promising alternative, enabling a transport that is vendorindependent and resilient, by utilizing horizontal communication.

Published in: atp magazin (08/2023).