Projekt DESIRE

This project focuses on the methodological foundations of service robotics for everyday life. The goal is to ensure and improve the competitiveness of German service robotics. New challenges such as achieving a sustainable level of competitiveness in the age of globalisation and the overageing of society require a continuous increase in productivity and revenue in production. But these challenges also necessitate the development of intelligent service robots whose task is to support humans in a variety of activities.

This research therefore aims to force a leap of technological innovation towards key functionality and key components for everyday use, to create a reference architecture allowing technological convergence through a common platform, to found new spin-offs and to realise new product ideas. The analysis of applications is intended to help identify requirements for a reference architecture to be developed, as well as system components and techniques. The achieved fundamental results will be integrated into the emerging technological platform "Everyday Life".

The project component "DESIRE Foundations" addresses interdisciplinary scientific topics such as architecture, models and ontologies, mechatronics, manipulation, perception and interaction. The project component "DESIRE Everday Life" aims to integrate and evaluate these foundations into a common technology platform and various further concrete applications.

Throughout the duration of the project, a continuous evaluation of the developed methods and components is foreseen which is based on well-defined indicators of suitability for everyday use. A convergence of the developed technologies will be achieved through the development of the technology platform "Everyday Life". The development of several concrete applications such as "service robots for hospitals" and "personal transport for outdoor environments" will enable short-term and medium-term realisations with high market potential.

In addition to several research institutions, project partners include Siemens AG, SCHUNK GmbH & Co. KG, InMach GmbH, Visage Technology AG, KUKA Controls GmbH and the Gesellschaft für Produktionssysteme GmbH.