Development of Outdoor Service Robots

Author

Nishida, Takeshi ; Takemura, Yuji ; Fuchikawa, Yasuhiro ; Kurogi, Shin ; Ito, Shuji ; Obata, Masayuki ; Hiratsuka, Norio ; Miyagawa, Hidekazu ; Watanabe, Yasuhiro ; Koga, Fumitaka ; Suehiro, Toshinori ; Kawamura, Yoshinori ; Kihara, Yoshimitsu ; Kondo, Ta

Author_Institution

Fuculty of Eng., Kyushu Inst. of Technol., Fukuoka

fYear

2006

Firstpage

2052

Lastpage

2057

Abstract

The outdoor service robots which we call OSR-01 and OSR-02 are presently under development intended for cleaning up urban areas by means of collecting discarded trash such as plastic bottles, cans, plastic bags and so on. In this paper, we mainly describe the architecture of OSR-02 which consists of hardware such as sensors, a manipulator, crawler structure, etc. for searching and picking up trash. After describing the systems, we show the result of open experiments in which OSR-02 collected plastic bottles in the special zone for robot research and development in Kitakyushu-city

Keywords

mobile robots; service robots; Kitakyushu city; OSR-01; OSR-02; outdoor service robots; trash collection; urban areas; Cleaning; Crawlers; Hardware; Manipulators; Plastic products; Research and development; Robot sensing systems; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Service robots; Urban areas; camera; laser rangefinder; outdoor service robot; separated collection;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

SICE-ICASE, 2006. International Joint Conference

Conference_Location

Busan

Print_ISBN

89-950038-4-7

Electronic_ISBN

89-950038-5-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SICE.2006.315491

Filename

4109025