Videos

The videos on this page illustrate many of our research results. Most of them were recorded by members of the laboratory, some are from TV broadcasts.
 

 

Autonomous Road Vehicle videos

Autonomous Road Following (BBC, 1987)

In the mid 1980s a vision-guided autonomous road vehicle, VAMORS, was designed and operated within projects headed by Prof. Dr.-Ing. E.D. Dickmanns and Prof. Dr. V. Graefe. Its vision system, BVV 2, was designed and built by our laboratory. The video, produced by BBC as part of their series "Tomorrow's World" explains some of the technology used in designing the vehicle and its vision system, and it shows how the vehicle runs autonomously in campus roads at 35 km/h and on a freeway at 96 km/h. In its time it was by far the fastest autonomous road vehicle in the world.
Recorded: 1987.
Duration: 4:46 …

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Calibration-Free Robot

The robot grasps a variety of unknown objects. To demonstrate its robustness the orientation, and hen also the location of its camera is arbitrarily modified while the grasping continues.
Recorded: 12/2001.
Duration: 5 min.

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Humanoid Robot HERMES

HERMES - a Versatile Plug-and-Run Service Robot
The robot is introduced into a new - of course unprepared - environment, which is easy and fast. It interacts naturally and intelligently with various persons and performs services for them.
Recorded: 12/2001.
Duration: 13 min.

HERMES at an Exhibition
The robot demonstrates some of its skills to an international audience and to the German minister of research and technology, Annette Bulmahn, at the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum in Paderborn, Germany.
Recorded: 12/2001.
Duration 2 min.
HERMES - A Humanoid Experimental Robot for Mobile Manipulation and Exploration Services

HERMES - A Humanoid Experimental Robot for Mobile Manipulation and Exploration Services
A quick overview over HERMES' design and some of its early skills. Third prize at ICRA 2001.
Recorded: 11/2000.
Duration 3 min.
Bendable Body

Bendable Body
A "hip joint" (1 degree of freedom) greatly extends the reach of the robot. Stability is ensured by a low center of gravity, due to heavy batteries in the undercarriage.
Recorded: 12/2000.
Duration 0:47 min.
Omnidirectional Undercarriage

Omnidirectional Undercarriage
HERMES' excellent mobility is demonstrated.
Recorded: 12/2000.
Duration 2 min