Sensor integration with manipulation programs will provide an automatic adjustment of movements in presence of unknown positions. Infrared sensors or single-camera vision are used. Automatic Error Recovery aims at the development of a work-cell controller capable to autonomously manage a programmed assembly execution, even in presence of errors relative, e.g., to object positioning, object shape.
Current results are error detection modules, where sensor measurements are planned.
Virtual robotics groups a set of web-based techniques aimed at developing manipulator programs on virtual models of the environment and of the robots. Some VRML and Java modules are in progress. The main result is PAMM, a path planner for articulated robots, using poligonal or cilindrical obstacles.