Development of a Sensor System for Outdoor Service Robot

Authors :: Y. Watanabe
Takeshi Nishida
S. Ito
N. Hiratsuka
Shuichi Kurogi
Yoshinori Kawamura
Toshinori Suehiro
Masayuki Obata
Fujio Ohkawa
Yuji Takemura
Yasuhiro Fuchikawa
Hidekazu Miyagawa
Source :: 2006 SICE-ICASE International Joint Conference.
Publication Year :: 2006
Publisher :: IEEE, 2006.
Abstract: The outdoor service robot, which we call OSR-02, is 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. Additionally, we have developed a novel sensor system for the achievement of the task by this robot; it is constructed with LRF (Laser Rnagefinder), two cameras, and three stepping motors. In this paper, we describe the sensor system and its applications.