2003

Funding: European Commission (FP6 IST-004381)

Duration: 2003 –

Partners: Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany; Joanneum Research, Austria; Linköpings Universitet, Sweden; Middle East Technical University, Turkey; Österreichische Studiengesellschaft für Kybernetik, Austria; Universität Osnabrück, Germany.

Description: The main objective of the MACS project was to explore and exploit the concept of affordances for the design and implementation of autonomous mobile robots acting goal-directedly in a dynamic environment. The claim was to develop affordance-based control as a method for robotics. Technically speaking, a prototypical affordance-based architecture has been developed and implemented on a mobile robot, KURT3D. For providing simple manipulation capabilities, KURT3D is equipped with a magnetic gripper crane arm. The experiments have been performed in the simulator MACSim and in a real demonstrator scenario.

URL: http://www.macs-eu.org