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Assisted Living -
Pouring a Glas of Water
A "FRANKA EMIKA PANDA" Robotic Application
Created on the
"GameJam2018 TU Braunschweig" at
Institut für Werkzeugmaschinen und
Fertigungstechnik
Author: Rolf Hemmerling ( hemmerling.com )
Date: 2018-10-05 – 2018-10-06
License: Creative Commons - Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Generic
( http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ )

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1 The Application
FRANKA EMIKA's PANDA was one of the technical
gadgets supplied on the GameJam for inspiration of a
"workification" or "gamification" application.
My application is more
a "workification"
application - A test case
how assisted living of
old, handicapped
people might be
supported by
collaborative robots
( cobots ).

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2 The Work Process
of the Application
The application was created as a FRANKA EMIKA
Task - A sequence of configured FRANKA EMIKA Apps

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3 The Video
The video is available at YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbJX4GksR5k

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4 The Bottle
● Soft plastic bottles ( single-trip recyclable bottle reposit 0.25
EUR in Germany, or non-returnable recyclable bottles ) typcially
can´t be grasped by the standard FRANKA EMIKA PANDA
robot-gripper
● Hard plastic bottles ( multi-trip bottle reposit 0.15 EUR in
Germany ) and glas bottles can be grasped by the standard KA
FRANKA EMIKA PANDA robot-gripper. Attention: Handeling of
glas bottles might be too dangerous if the robot-gribber fails or
opens unexpectedly after a "Reset" and the bottle falls down!
● The application was just tested with empty bottles, ie. It was not
tested with fluid ( e.g. water ), due to limits of the robot-gripper
and the given test environment – The computer hardware was
too near to the application area

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5 FRANKA EMIKA Tips & Tricks,
Problems
● You may just execute a complete FRANKA EMIKA Task. To
create a variation of a FRANKA EMIKA Task, You may "disable"
temporarily some FRANKA EMIKA Apps.
● You may neither copy FRANKA EMIKA Tasks nor copy
configured FRANKA EMIKA Apps from one FRANKA EMIKA
Task to another.
● Don´t press the ESC key if you edit a FRANKA EMIKA App, as
by that you delete configuration data, e.g stored goal points.
Instead, click on the "Program" label at the top of the HTML
screen to return to the FRANKA EMIKA Task menu
● There were frequent aborts of the FRANKA EMIKA Task,
accompanied by error messages of the FRANKA EMIKA server.

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6 Resources
● https://www.franka.de/panda
● http://arbeitundspiele.de/ , "GameJam 2018:
Arbeit 4.0", "GameJam2018 TU Braunschweig",
#GameJamBS18
● http://www.tu-braunschweig.de/iwf - TU
Braunschweig, Institut für Werkzeugmaschinen
und Fertigungstechnik
● http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_living
● http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betreutes_Wohnen