Department of Computer Science
Winter School 2013: Mobile Manipulation
(The participants marvel at the service robot Jenny)
The "Summer School" course on mobile manipulation of the computer science department has already established itself as a tradition. For the first time now a "Winter School" was held from 28 January until 8 February 2013. Prof. Dr. Sascha Alda and academic staff member Nadine Fröbel organized the event for Russian students of Tomsk Polytechnic University. The nine young men from Institute of cybernetics of the partner university in Siberia, accompanied by supervisors Viktor Tutov and Evgeniy Shandarov, all acquired a certificate for successful participation.
Under the direction of Dr. Björn Kahl academic staff members of the Autonomous Systems program (MAS) passed on the technical knowledge necessary for programming and working with mobile manipulators. The participants attended lectures in the mornings and applied in practice what they had learned in the afternoons. It was this "hands-on" aspect of the Winter School that inspired the students, as it offered the opportunity to test their recently acquired know-how not only in simulations but directly by testing it on the real robot.
(Implementation of programs on the "living" object)
In addition to the scientific challenges, encounters with international MAS students, lab tours and lab demos, as well as some excursions were on the schedule. At the free weekend between the seminar days the participants made a short trip to Paris.
In the final event on Friday, 8 February 2013, the students presented their findings in PowerPoint. Afterwards the participants fed a KUKA youBot their self-written programs, all of which it executed successfully.
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