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Alexander Ferrein

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arXiv2025

Look: AI at Work! -- Analysing Key Aspects of AI-support at the Work Place

In this paper we present an analysis of technological and psychological factors of applying artificial intelligence (AI) at the work place. We do so for a number of twelve application cases in the context of a project where AI is integrated at work places and in work systems of the future. From a technological point of view we mainly look at the areas of AI that the applications are concerned with. This allows to formulate recommendations in terms of what to look at in developing an AI application and what to pay attention to with regards to building AI literacy with different stakeholders using the system. This includes the importance of high-quality data for training learning-based systems as well as the integration of human expertise, especially with knowledge-based systems. In terms of the psychological factors we derive research questions to investigate in the development of AI supported work systems and to consider in future work, mainly concerned with topics such as acceptance, openness, and trust in an AI system.

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arXiv2025

From Production Logistics to Smart Manufacturing: The Vision for a New RoboCup Industrial League

The RoboCup Logistics League is a RoboCup competition in a smart factory scenario that has focused on task planning, job scheduling, and multi-agent coordination. The focus on production logistics allowed teams to develop highly competitive strategies, but also meant that some recent developments in the context of smart manufacturing are not reflected in the competition, weakening its relevance over the years. In this paper, we describe the vision for the RoboCup Smart Manufacturing League, a new competition designed as a larger smart manufacturing scenario, reflecting all the major aspects of a modern factory. It will consist of several tracks that are initially independent but gradually combined into one smart manufacturing scenario. The new tracks will cover industrial robotics challenges such as assembly, human-robot collaboration, and humanoid robotics, but also retain a focus on production logistics. We expect the reenvisioned competition to be more attractive to newcomers and well-tried teams, while also shifting the focus to current and future challenges of industrial robotics.

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arXiv2024

A ROS~2-based Navigation and Simulation Stack for the Robotino

The Robotino, developed by Festo Didactic, serves as a versatile platform in education and research for mobile robotics tasks. However, there currently is no ROS2 integration for the Robotino available. In this paper, we describe our work on a Webots simulation environment for a Robotino platform extended by LIDAR sensors. A ROS2 integration and a pre-configured setup for localization and navigation using existing ROS packages from the Nav2 suite are provided. We validate our setup by comparing simulations with real-world experiments conducted by three Robotinos in a logistics environment in our lab. Additionally, we tested the setup using a ROS 2 hardware driver for the Robotino developed by team GRIPS of the RoboCup Logistics League. The results demonstrate the feasibility of using ROS2 and Nav2 for navigation tasks on the Robotino platform showing great consistency between simulation and real-world performance.

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