RoCKIn2014

RoCKIn Project Description

• Project Name:

• Next Challenge

RoCKIn@home Toulouse 

• Official Web Page

RoCKIn@home 

Watermelon Project: Team Description

• Project Codename

Watermelon Project

• 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, Team Leader: 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

Toulusse - RoCKIn 2014 - Team Description Paper (TDP)

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

Component	Model	Description
Frame	n/a	Poplar laminated wood
Computer	LG X110 -	Notebooks. Atom processors
Controllers	(a)Arduino 2560, (b)USB2serial	(a)arm, range sensors, (b)roomba
Base	Roomba 520	Vacuum cleaner
Ultrasound Sensors	Maxsensor mb1220 (x5)	Range: 7 meters
RGB sensor	Logitech	Webcam
RGBD sensors	Kinect, Asus Xtion
Battery	standard	12V, 7A
Arm (Actuator)	Dinamixel AX12 servos (x5)	Joints and servomotors from Bioloid

Robot Software

Option	Control Software	Version	Description
Robot	ROS	Fuerte
Simulator	Gazebo and ROS	Gazebo 1.19, ROS - HYDRO

Videos TDP2014

MoveIt!

Test 1:

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Arm Control

Arm control with Xbox Joystick

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Acknowledgments

Organizations:

Fab-Lab León

Cátedra Telefónica-Unileon

People:

Alvaro Botas (MYRA software)

Joaquín Olmo (First design of MYRABot prototype)

Julián Orfo (Navigation Simulation)

Sponsorship

If you want to contribute financially to the project, please contact us.

Wishlist

☑ Roomba battery

☐ Arduino Mega (x2)

☐ Roomba base (520, 560)

☐ Ultrabook