RESEARCH GROUP
SENSORS AND ACTUATORS

Sensors and Robotics

Research focus

Development of capacitive sensor for
- Object detection and collision avoidance
- Tactile and pre-touch sensors
- Contactless control of robots
- Active categorization
ROS Software Interface for capacitive sensors

Selected Publications

Published at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2020
Christian Stetco, Barnaba Ubezio, Stephan Mühlbacher-Karrer, Hubert Zangl: Radar Sensors in Collaborative Robotics: Fast Simulation and Experimental Validation (preprint)
Published at IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference I2MTC 2020
Harald Gietler, Christian Stetco and Hubert Zangl: Scalable Retrofit Angular Position Sensor System
Published at IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2019
L.M. Faller, Ch.Stetco and H. Zangl: Design of a Novel Gripper System with 3D and Inkjet-Printed Multimodal Sensors for Automated Grasping of a Forestry Robot, IEEE IROS 2019, Macau, CN
Published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
S. Mühlbacher-Karrer, M. Brandstötter, D. Schett and H. Zangl, Contactless Control of a Kinematically Redundant Serial Manipulator using Tomographic Sensors in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 562-569, April 2017. doi: 10.1109/LRA.2016.2632973
COMPEL 2017
Stephan Mühlbacher-Karrer, Juliana Padilha Leitzke, Lisa-Marie Faller, Hubert Zangl, (2017) “Non-iterative object detection methods in electrical tomography for robotic applications”, COMPEL – The international journal for computation and mathematics in electrical and electronic engineering, Vol. 36 Issue: 5, pp.1411-1420, https://doi.org/10.1108/COMPEL-02-2017-0092
Published in Advances in Robot Design and Intelligent Control. Proceedings of the RAAD 2016
Virtual Compliance Control of a Kinematically Redundant Serial Manipulator with 9 DoF
Published at IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2015
Responsive fingers — capacitive sensing during object manipulation

Ongoing Cooperations

Joanneum Research Robotics
Joanneum Resarch Robotics
Joanneum Research Materials
Joanneum Research Materials
Carinthia University of Applied Science: Integrated Systems and Circuits Design