We have reached
the mid-point of the
KUKA Innovation Award program, and progress has been pretty strong so far. SRT has been working
towards the development of an Autonomous Custodial Architecture (ACA)
to control a multi-robot system through the various roles of cleaning
an office environment. The KUKA youBot is playing the role of trash
can detection and emptying, while a swarm of iRobot Creates are being
used to simulate vacuuming. Utilizing shared office space mapping and
robot localization, along with task-driven assignments, these systems
are successfully navigating their environment and fulfilling their
robotic roles. We are looking forward to competing with other great
innovative organizations during the Automatica 2014 Conference in
Munich.