A project of the Robotics 2020 class of the School of Information Science and Technology (SIST) of ShanghaiTech University. Course Instructor: Prof. Sören Schwertfeger.
Zhai Keyan, Li Chu'an, Zhang Ge
Supervisor: Hou Jiawei, Sören Schwertfeger
Introduction
In this project, we tried to make a robot capable of taking elevators autonomously. With the ability to take elevators and move vertically inside a building, the mobility of wheeled robots can be significantly improved.
System Description
Hardware
Our elevator robot includes a complex hardware system consists of the following parts:
- Base platform - Jackal
- Manipulator - Kinova
- Camera - Intel Realsense
- 3D LiDAR - Velodyne
Software
The whole software system is a multi-phased pipeline based on ROS melodic on Ubuntu 18.04.
- Localization and Navigation - AMCL algorithm
- Button Detection - OCR-RCNN algorithm
- Button Push - MoveIt!
The upper left image indicates a random starting pose of the manipulator, represented by the orange arm in RViz in the right.
The lower left image indicates the target pose of the manipulator where it pushes the button with the pose represented by the red arrow in RViz in the right.