Third Party-financed Projects

Below, you can see a selection of CITEC's third-party-financed projects. All EU-financed projects are listed on a separate page.

CITmed - Cognitive Interaction Technology for Medicine
supported by the NRW Ziel 2 program EFRE, coordinator: Prof. Dr. Mario Botsch, 09/2009-08/2012
The CITmed project aims at the development of a novel medical device for the application of virtual reality (VR) in the diagnosis and rehabilitation in neurology, neuropsychology, and psychiatry, as well as the implementation of respective clinical studies. The fields of application will be primarily disturbances of brain functions resulting from apoplexia, cerebral trauma caused by accidents, and neurological and psychiatric diseases.

ELAN - Elastic Actuation
supported by the BMBF, coordinator: Dr. Axel Schneider, 11/2007-10/2013
The main focus of the ELAN-Project is the development of neurobionically controlled, elastic joint drives for robots with muscle-like behaviour. These new joint drives are closely related to the biological paragons and adapt their advantages in construction and control.

DESIRE - Deutsche Servicerobotik Initiative
supported by the BMBF, coordinator: Prof. Dr. Helge Ritter, 03/2006-11/2009
The primary objective of DESIRE was to maintain and build on the leading role held by German researchers and industry in the field of service robotics by achieving a technological edge towards attaining key functions and components that are suited for everyday use, creating a reference architecture for mobile manipulation, promoting the convergence of technologies through integration into a common technology platform, and conducting pre-competition research and development activities for new products and technology transfer in start-up enterprises in the field of service robotics.

Puppetry
supported by the DFG, coordinator: Prof. Dr. Mario Botsch, 10/2010-09/2013
The goal of this project is to address the challenging problem of highly accurate and fully automatic 3D reconstruction of performing humans in realtime, based on a novel markerless and non-invasive acquisition system. To achieve this goal we have to advance the state-of-the-art both at the acquisition side and the modeling/processing side, focusing on the reconstruction of human face, upper-body, and hands in a front-view desktop acquisition setting.

SoziRob - Robots as Fitness Coaches
supported by BMBF, coordinator: Prof. Dr. Franz Kummert, 05/2010-05/2013
The aim of the SoziRob-project is the development of intelligent robots with social interaction capabilities which support astronauts to overcome better the physical and mental exposures of long-term missions in a closed habitat. This includes the development, implementation and evaluation of a motivation module for the qualitative and quantitative improvement of fitness training to avoid amyothrophia. In addition, the robots should adapt to the moods of astronauts for deriving better interaction strategies from the reaction of the human partner.