RoCKIn2014

RoCKIn Project Description

• Project Name:

• Official Web Page

RoCKIn@home 

• Project Codename

Watermelon

• Advisor:

Vicente Matellán Olivera

• Staff:

Technical- Manipulation/Grasping, Simulation: Fernando Casado
Technical- Navigation: Rubén Rodríguez
Technical- SW Integration, Middleware, Perception: Francisco Martín Rico
Technical- SW Integration, HRI Dialogue: Francisco Lera
Technical- Hardware: Carlos Rodríguez

• Former Staff:

Technical-Perception: Víctor Rodríguez 

• Other Information:

Academic Year: 2013-2014
SVN Repositories: soon... 
Tags: Augmented Reality, Elderly people, Remote-Assistance
Technology: ROS, PCL, c++, svn, OpenCV, cmake, OpenGL, Qt, Aruco, 
State: Development

Project Summary

This challenge focuses on domestic service robots. The project aims to create robots with enhanced networking and cognitive abilities. They should be able to perform useful tasks such as helping the impaired and the elderly (one of the main goals of our group).

In the initial stages of the competition, individual robots will begin by overcoming basic individual tasks, such as navigating through the rooms of a house, manipulating objects or recognizing faces, and then coordinating to handle house-keeping tasks simultaneously, some of them under natural interaction with humans.

RoCKIn Evolution

Rome - RoCKIn Camp 2014

Robot

We want to take part in RoCKIn with the platform developed during the last two years in the Catedra Telefónica-ULE.

MYRABot robot.

Robot Hardware

1. iRobot Roomba 520
2. Dinamixel Arm (5x12a)
3. Wooden frame (yes, it is made of wood)
4. Notebook (Atom processor) (the display has been taken apart from the main body)
5. Kinect
6. Arduino Mega

Robot Software

1. ROS (robot control)
2. MYRA (C/C++, ArUCo, Qt, openCV)

Acknowledgments

Organizations:

Fab-Lab León

Cátedra Telefónica-Unileon

People:

Alvaro Botas (MYRA software)

Joaquín Olmo (First design of MYRABot prototype)

Julián Orfo (Navigation Simulation)

Wishlist

☑ Roomba battery

☐ Arduino Mega (x2)

☐ Roomba base (520, 560)

Sponsorship

If you want to contribute financially to the project, please contact us. We will be happy to show your brand on our clothes or the robot.