Motion Generation for Multi-Robot Systems
Date: 2026/03/17 – 2026/03/17
Academic Seminar: Motion Generation for Multi-Robot Systems
Speaker: Andreas Orthey, Principal Robotics Scientist at Realtime Robotics
Time: 1:30-2:30 p.m., March 17, 2026 (Beijing Time)
Location: online
Abstract
Robot teams capable of autonomously assembling and disassembling electromechanical objects presents a unique opportunity to advance remanufacturing, construction, and recycling. One particular challenge to enable such systems is motion generation. Towards this goal, I will present four key contributions: Part 1 focuses on multi-robot navigation in high-dimensional configuration spaces using Fibration Trees, enabling structural benchmarking and significant speedups in runtime. Part 2 addresses multi-object rearrangement and disassembly tasks via Less-Actions RRT and scale-invariant sphere sampling, with a focus on minimal actions and geometric feasibility. Part 3 presents our progress toward multi-robot task and motion planning for complex disassembly tasks. Part 4 discusses industrial deployment of multi-robot systems and applications to assembly line optimization. Finally, I discuss future work for autonomous disassembly systems using physical simulations and real-world transfer.
Biography
Dr. Andreas Orthey is a Principal Robotics Scientist at Realtime Robotics, where he pioneers real-time motion planning solutions for industrial automation. His research career includes over 20 published papers in top-tier academic venues such as IJRR, TRO, or RAL and he teaches the course “Motion Planning” as a Guest Lecturer at the TU Berlin. He earned his PhD in Computer Science and Robotics from the National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse in 2015. His career includes a postdoc at the Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, a two-year JSPS-funded fellowship at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), and a Feodor Lynen Return Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt foundation at the University of Stuttgart.