Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
SICE-ICASE, 2006. International Joint Conference
Conference_Location :
Busan
Print_ISBN :
89-950038-4-7
Electronic_ISBN :
89-950038-5-5
DOI :
10.1109/SICE.2006.315491
