Jonne van Haastregt
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Adam Miksits wins best poster award
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During the WASP winter conference of 2025, Adam Miksits won the best poster Award for his work on “Communication and Control Co-Design for Risk-Aware Safety of Mobile Robots with Offloaded Localization”. For this work, Adam evaluated his method using the Mobile YuMi that is available within the WARA, in our lab at ABB’s Corporate Research…
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IRB1200 Workshop
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We had the pleasure of hosting a team from Chalmers led by Emmanuel Dean Leon for a workshop on the IRB1200. During the workshop, we went through the hardware setup, RobotStudio Simulation, ROS Control over RWS and EGM as well as MoveIt tutorials. Some issues arose during the workshop, which we managed to troubleshoot in…
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Mobile Manipulation Challenge Day Recap
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Yesterday we hosted the mobile manipulation challenge at the lab in ABB’s Corporate Research Center in Västerås. The four teams from Örebro University, LTH, KTH, and Politecnico di Milano presented their solutions in front of each other, the jury, and a few other interested visitors. The use case for this challenge, which was provided by…
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Visit to Volvo Trucks
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On Friday we had the pleasure to visit the Tuve plant of Volvo Trucks in Göteborg. We got a tour from Atieh Hannah and Kristofer Bengtsson along the impressive production line, where they produce a 100 highly customized trucks per day. Since each truck is unique, the plant is very challenging to automize. However, that…
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Mobile Manipulation Challenge Next week!
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Time flies, and it is almost time already for the mobile manipulation challenge day! In the past months, the participating teams from KTH, LTH, Örebro University and Politecnico di Milano have been preparing their solutions for the challenge set out together with AstraZeneca. This week, they are invited at the ABB Corporate Research Center in…
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Visit to Skåne university Hospital and LTH
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Last Tuesday, we had the pleasure of visiting the Skåne University Hospital as well as the departments of Computer Science and Automatic Control at the Lund Tekniska Högskola. The day started with the shadowing of head of surgery Phan-Kiet Tran, who has a big vision for the use of robotics in the healthcare sector. A…