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Mobile robots @ Labrob - LaDiSpe
Mobile Robotics @ LabRob A short introduction Basilio Bona Michele Bongiovanni Laboratorio di Robotica Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica Politecnico di Torino Overview • Why mobility? • Applications • Approaches • Solutions • LabRob activity 01CFIDV - Robotica - 11 Marzo 2005 2 Why mobility? • Increased number of degrees of freedom •challenging tasks that require displacement abilities. • Autonomy • Human- (animal-) like behaviors •Helpers or substitutes for stressing/dangerous tasks 01CFIDV - Robotica - 11 Marzo 2005 3 Applications fields - 1 • Hospitals/Airports/Ho me • (Semi)Autonomous wheel-chairs • Assistants • Vacuum cleaners • Toys • Requirements • Robustness • User friendly humanmachine interface • Environment sensing 01CFIDV - Robotica - 11 Marzo 2005 4 Applications fields - 2 • Military • Mine finder • Flying sentinels • Soldiers (????) • Requirements • SLAM • Team paradigm • Communication • Reliable sensory systems and fusion • Reliable hardware • Real-time software 01CFIDV - Robotica - 11 Marzo 2005 5 Applications fields - 3 • Scientific/industrial explorations • Pyramid project • Pipelines • Underwater • Space • Requirements • Scalability • Adaptativity • Reliable sensing • SLAM • Remote controller systems 01CFIDV - Robotica - 11 Marzo 2005 6 Application fields - 4 • Bio-inspired • Insects (the great part) • • • • Flies Ants Spiders Bugs • Fish • Requirements • Microtechnologies • Low-level coding • Swarm paradigm • Redundancy strategies • Cooperation/communica tion • “Natural” behaviors • NN controllers • Artificial intelligence • Coherence with reality 01CFIDV - Robotica - 11 Marzo 2005 7 Application fields - 5 • ROBOT SOCCER • World wide robotic research promotion • Requirements • Synchrony • Communication • High sensing skills 01CFIDV - Robotica - 11 Marzo 2005 8 Approach Modelling Robot structure Environment Interactions Real world Behaviors Simulations Real robot programming 01CFIDV - Robotica - 11 Marzo 2005 Result validation 9 Model based VS behavioral based controller design • Model based • Dynamic continuous/discreet equations • Accurate mathematical model • Predictions and equilibria • Behavior based • Events and interaction rules • High dimension and noisy system • Blocks description • Mathematics hidden in high-level structures 01CFIDV - Robotica - 11 Marzo 2005 10 Approach Modelling Robot structure Environment Interactions Real world Behaviors Simulations Real robot programming 01CFIDV - Robotica - 11 Marzo 2005 Result validation 11 Solutions from simulated to real world • “by hand” coding •No share of resources between simulation software and hardware • Automatic coding •Fast prototyping techniques •Hardware in the loop • Hybrid •Custom code embedding 01CFIDV - Robotica - 11 Marzo 2005 12 LabRob activity -1- RESEARCH • Fast prototyping using Simulink and the Real Time Workshop • Design of real-time embedded controllers • Code porting on unsupported/custom architectures • Model based VS behavioral based controllers analysis and comparison (e.g. Simulink VS Stateflow) • Sensor fusion env. Mapping (SLAM) • InfraRed sensors (short distances < 4 m ) • Sonar sensors (long distances < 3 m) • Video cameras 01CFIDV - Robotica - 11 Marzo 2005 13 LabRob activity -2- RESEARCH • Algorithms of features extraction from acquired images (colors, shapes, distances) • Evolution/dynamics of communication emergence among simulated agents • Signal “grounding” • Communication means • Audio waves • Radio waves (which one?) • Light • Web learning and remote robot controller • Java (or equivalent) web interface • Radio communication host-robot link • Drive-by-cameras 01CFIDV - Robotica - 11 Marzo 2005 14 LabRob Activity -3AVAILABLE HARDWARE • 2 x Khepera robot base (MC68331) with sonars and radio turrets • 1 x PAL Color camera • 1 x SoccerBot (MC68331) with sonars, color camera, radio system, kicker and LCD display. • 4 x Devantech sonars 01CFIDV - Robotica - 11 Marzo 2005 15 LabRob Activity -3AVAILABLE SOFTWARE • MATLAB • Simulink • Stateflow • Real Time WorkShop • RTOS • VxWorks • Qnx • RTAI • Robots’ embedded operating systems. • Webots (Khepera and family robot simulator) 01CFIDV - Robotica - 11 Marzo 2005 16 Useful links http://www.polito.it/ http://www.ladispe.polito.it/robotica/Labrob/indexen.htm http://www.k-team.com http://www.cyberbotics.com/products/webots/ http://www.joker-robotics.com/eyebot/ http://www.mathworks.com/products/rtw/ http://www.robot-electronics.co.uk/ shop/Ultrasonic_Rangers1999.htm 01CFIDV - Robotica - 11 Marzo 2005 17 ?? QUESTIONS ?? 01CFIDV - Robotica - 11 Marzo 2005 18 Coming next… LADISPE di AUTOMATICA 10:30-12:30 12:30-14:30 LUN 14/03 BONFITTO, CARDELLINO, CAVALERA, CERUTTI, CHIONO, COCONDI, CORATELLA, CORSIATTO, DANNA, DE GIUSEPPE DEDOLA, DEIRO,FAVOT, FELE, FICILI, FILIPE, FRASSY, GRASSINO, IMPINNA, KAOUK MER 16/03 LAFFRANCHI, MATTIO, PAOLELLA, PEIRANO, PONSETTI, PRIMAVERA, SAGLIA, SARRACINO, SEVERINO, ZANCANER, PEREZ, HUI KIT 01CFIDV - Robotica - 11 Marzo 2005 19