On November 18, 2014, the CoBot robots jointly reached
1,000km of
autonomous localization and navigation! Congratulations, in particular,
to Joydeep Biswas!
We are driven by our vision of multiple autonomous intelligent
mobile robots capable of robustly performing service tasks and
interacting with humans in our indoor environments.
Our CoBot robots follow a novel symbiotic autonomy, in
which the robots are aware of their perceptual, physical, and
reasoning limitations and proactively ask for help from humans, for
example for object manipulation actions. (The CoBot robots, at this
time, do not have arms.)
We pursue research in particular in effective real-time
mobile robot localization and navigation algorithms, symbiotic
human-robot interaction, and multi-task multi-robot dynamic task
planning. The CoBot robots are capable of reliably autonomously
localization and navigation in our buildings (Gates Hillman Center and
Newell and Simon Hall) using the Kinect depth-camera, WiFi, and/or
LIDAR.
We first released one of our CoBot robots, CoBot-2, to all
the residents of GHC on September 23, 2011. In its first 3 hours of
operation, from 1pm to 4pm, its schedule was completely booked.
Longterm deployment logs of the CoBots, including odometry, sensor readings,
and location estimates are available for download from
here.
CoBots: Collaborative Robots Servicing Multi-Floor Buildings,
Video and
Extended abstract Manuela Veloso, Joydeep Biswas, Brian Coltin, Stephanie Rosenthal, Tom
Kollar, Cetin Mericli, Mehdi Samadi, Susana Brandao, and Rodrigo Ventura.
In Proceedings of IROS'12, the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on
Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vilamoura, Portugal, October 2012.
Episodic Non-Markov Localization, Joydeep Biswas and Manuela Veloso.
In Proceedings of ICRA'14, the IEEE International Conference on
Robotics and Automation, Hong Kong, China, June 2014.
Motion Interference Detection in Mobile Robots, Juan Pablo Mendoza, Manuela Veloso, and Reid Simmons.
In Proceedings of IROS'12, the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on
Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vilamoura, Portugal, October 2012.
CoBots: Collaborative Robots Servicing Multi-Floor Buildings,
Video and
Extended abstract Manuela Veloso, Joydeep Biswas, Brian Coltin, Stephanie Rosenthal, Tom
Kollar, Cetin Mericli, Mehdi Samadi, Susana Brandao, and Rodrigo Ventura.
In Proceedings of IROS'12, the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on
Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vilamoura, Portugal, October 2012.
Mobile Robot Fault Detection based on Redundant Information Statistics, Juan Pablo Mendoza, Manuela Veloso, and Reid Simmons.
In Workshop at IROS'12 on "Safety in human-robot coexistence and interaction: How can standardization and research benefit from each other?", Vilamoura, Portugal, October 2012.
Experience Guided Mobile Manipulation Planning, Tekin Mericli, Manuela Veloso, and H. Levent Akin.
In Proceedings of the 8th International Cognitive Robotics Workshop at
AAAI-12, Toronto, Canada, July 2012.
Enabling Robots to Find and Fetch Objects by Querying the Web, Thomas Kollar, Mehdi Samadi, and Manuela Veloso.
In Proceedings of AAMAS'12, the Eleventh International Joint
Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Valencia,
Spain, June 2012.
Transparent Multi-Robot Communication Exchange for Executing Robot Behaviors,
Carlos Aguero and Manuela Veloso.
In Highlights on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent
Systems - 10th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents
and Multi-Agent Systems (PAAMS 2012), volume 156 of Advances in
Intelligent and Soft Computing, pages 215--222. Springer, April 2012.
Dynamic User Task Scheduling for Mobile Robots, Brian Coltin and Manuela Veloso.
In Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop on Automated Action Planning for
Autonomous Mobile Robots, San Francisco, CA, August 2011.
Effective Semi-autonomous Telepresence, Brian Coltin, Joydeep Biswas, Dean Pomerleau, and Manuela Veloso.
In Proceedings of the RoboCup Symposium, Istanbul, Turkey, July
2011.
