Autonomous robots
Rescue and exploration robots (RERs) aid rescue crews in the face of disasters. Current RERs, including those manufactured by PIAP, are teleoperated, what significantly limits their operating range and requires constant human supervision. The conducted market analysis shows that in the near future the demand for autonomous devices will dominate. The goal of the project is to produce a set of technologies and an adequate architecture necessary for the production of autonomous RERs, or in general service and field robots.
In particular, the project will deliver technologies enabling: perception of the environment; navigation and control of mobile platforms and manipulators; impedance control of manipulators and grippers; intelligent two-handed manipulation; active sensing and the use of ontology common to people and robots. The results will be demonstrated on two robots: a mobile manipulator SCOUT/GRYF manufactured by PIAP and a two-handed robot manipulator. The team from the Institute of Control and Computation Engineering of the Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology of Warsaw University of Technology is responsible for creation of technologies for intelligent two-handed manipulation and active sensing.
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