Despite a rapid development in computers and sensor technologies, surprisingly few autonomous robot systems have successfully made it to the consumer market and into people's homes. Robotics is a popular topic in research circles, but focus is often on ground-breaking technologies, and not on putting the robots on the commercial market. At the time when this research project was started in May 2010, the amount of successful commercial applications based on mobile robots was very limited. The most known applications were vacuum cleaners, lawn mowers, and few examples of specialized transport robots used in warehouses and hospitals. At the same time, despite attempting to solve the same tasks and applications, the resulting software and products of research groups was very fragmented. Even if being open source, the software was based on self-made frameworks and often only used internally by the individual groups and perhaps a few close industrial partners. This research project addresses the problem of increasing the potential for more commercial applications based on mobile wheeled robots. Therefore the main focus is not on inventing new ground-breaking robotics technology, but instead understanding why the existing technology and algorithms are not ready for production. One focus area of this project is an analysis of these existing Technologies and algorithms for mobile robots. The most fundamental task for a mobile robot is navigation, yet no generic and ready to use implementation for solving this exists. This project includes an effort towards such a generic navigation system. It should provide a stable and easy-to-setup experience for robotics researcher and industry integrators who needs navigation capability for a specic mobile robot. At the same time a common package for navigation will provide a base for many researchers to contribute to and mature over time. The second focus area was to close the gap between research and industry by providing the necessary tools and motivation for researchers to create ...
Modular Platform for Commercial Mobile Robots
2013-01-01
Kjærgaard , M 2013 , Modular Platform for Commercial Mobile Robots . Technical University of Denmark, Department of Electrical Engineering .
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