ISR-CoBot
News and events
- (May 2014) demo of IST-CoBot at Encontro Nacional de Robótica at Espinho performing postman interaction and package reception in an intelligent home environment (see video below)
- (Jan 2014) participation of SocRob@home team, using the ISR-CoBot equipped with a 5-DoF arm, at RoCKIn Camp 2014, where we obtained the best-in-class in manipulation award
- (Sep 2013) demos of ISR-CoBot at Pavilhão do Conhecimento during European Researchers' Night
About
ISR-CoBot is is an experimental platform for research in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). It is a service robot for office environments designed to perform tasks for users. The research is targeted towards a robust platform capable of navigating in crowded environments. We aim at robots that are aware of their own limitations, and are thus capable to autonomously asking humans for help. This way we expect to get closer to the goal of a symbiotic interaction between humans and robots.
The platform is based on a customized Nomadic Scout differential drive platform. Its equipment includes a touchscreen on a laptop for HRI and computing, an Hokuyo UTM-30LX laser range finder (range 30m), a Kinect RGB-D camera, and an IP PTZ camera.
This project resulted from an ongoing collaboration with the CoBot project at Carnegie Mellon University.
Videos
People
- Rodrigo Ventura -- principal investigator
- Miguel Vaz -- MSc student
- João Mendes -- technical staff
Related publications
- CoBots: Collaborative robots, M. Veloso, J. Biswas, B. Coltin, S. Rosenthal, Susana Dias Brandão, T. Kollar, C. Mericli, Rodrigo Ventura, Proc. of IROS 2012 - IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vilamoura, Portugal, Jubilee Video, 2012
- Symbiotic-autonomous service robots for user-requested tasks in a multi-floor building, M. Veloso, J. Biswas, B. Coltin, S. Rosenthal, Susana Dias Brandão, T. Mericli, Rodrigo Ventura, Proc. of the Workshop on Cognitive Assistive Systems (CAS), IROS 2012 - IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vilamoura, Portugal, 2012
- Dynamic User Task Scheduling for Mobile Robots, Brian Coltin, Manuela Veloso, Rodrigo Ventura, AAAI Workshop on Automated Action Planning for Autonomous Mobile Robots, 2011
Funding
This work was partially funded by FCT [PEst-OE/EEI/LA0009/2013] and EU-FP7 project MOnarCH.