autonomous machines – Product Development Research Lab

Towards autonomous construction equipment: supporting on-site collaboration between automatons and humans

30th April 2020
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Abstract To support the application of automated machines andcollaborative robots in unstructured environments like in the mining,agriculture and construction sector the needs of the human co-workershould be investigated to ensure […]

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Congratulations Martin Frank, Licentiate in Mechanical Engineering!

20th December 2019
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Martin Frank presented his licentiate thesis entitled “A Step Towards the Design of Collaborative Autonomous Machines: A Study on Construction and Mining Equipment” in front of an interested audience both […]

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Research demos at Innovation Day 2019

9th March 2019
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The Blue Science Park Innovation Day 2019 was yet another successful demonstration of BTH’s PhD students driven research. With a unique blend of industries represented at the event there was quite a buzz around the HoloLens Augmented Reality based prototypes created for autonomous construction vehicle interaction, and the Poppy Robot used for engineering student experiments.

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Autonomy on-demand! Autonomous testing of human-driven compaction roller

12th June 2018
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Can we transform a compaction roller to become temporary autonomous for executing a specific task? And can we do it in a cheap and flexible way? That´s the challenge that […]

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The Volvo CE Trace delivered at Stanford EXPE 2017!

29th June 2017
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As the summer approaches the yearly ME310 project with Stanford University draws to a close. This years’ projects were presented at the d.school on the Stanford campus in the heart of Silicon Valley in California.

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Autonomous operation on display at Innovation Day 2017

25th May 2017
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On Innovation Day, a yearly demonstration event for Blue Science Park, BTH, and entrepreneurial companies, Product Development Research Laboratory debuted it’s Volvo CE collaboration project. The scale site and its […]

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