KOROS Initiative: Automatized Throwing and Catching for Material Transportation.

Catching a thrown object has increasingly been a subject of research. The reason has largely been to demonstrate the advances in robot technology. Besides this academic usage also the application of throwing and catching for material transport has been proposed. Within the KOROS initiative at the Vienna University of Technology the transport-by-throwing approach will be developed further. Based on multiple cameras and advanced robotic arms a practical evaluation of the approach will be done. The realization with state of the art equipment will enable to identify possible fields of application as well as current limitations of the transport-by-throwing approach. Especially soft throwing and catching, exposing the transported objects to minimal forces, are of main interest.