Humboldt Fellow in Automation Technology
Cooperating robots
- von Dr. Alexandra Nießen
- 08.09.2020
Cooperation also helps computers. If they work in a network in industrial production, they can, for example, jointly measure the temperature in buildings across the board or assist in handling hazardous materials. Dr. Yafeng Li wants to optimize their communication. He is currently a Humboldt Fellow at the UDE in the working group Automation Technology and Complex Systems.
Li comes from Yeungnam University, South Korea. There, the control scientist, who holds a doctorate in control engineering, developed algorithms that can be used to control software programs, for example.
At UDE, the 31-year-old is working on remote-controlled robot arms that cooperate with each other. "Each one communicates with the others, updates its control information and changes its state so that the overall task can be completed," explains the native Chinese. They are used in production processes, for example, when a group of robots transports a large workpiece and the arms (manipulators) working together simultaneously follow the same direction.
"When the control system is distributed over several robot arms, it exhibits high fault tolerance, high flexibility and low communication overhead," says Li. Until 2022, he will be doing research with Professor Steven Ding, where this technology can also be used. Li: "At the moment there is still a lot of basic research. But it can be applied widely, for example in search and rescue systems, cooperative surveillance or combat systems".
Further information:
Prof. Dr. Steven X. Ding, Automation Technology and Complex Systems, Tel. +49 (0)203/37 9-3386, steven.ding@uni-due.de
Editorial office: Alexandra Nießen, Tel. +49 (0)203/37 9-1487, alexandra.niessen@uni-due.de