A5011880972- Robotics and Automated Systems
- Social Robot Interaction and HRI
- Robot Manipulation and Learning
- Soft Robotics and Applications
Panasonic (Japan)
2022
In recent years, the labor shortage has become a significant problem in Japan and other countries due to aging societies. However, service robots can play decisive role relieving human workers by performing various household assistive tasks. Restroom cleaning is one of such challenging tasks that involve motion planning constrained restroom setting. this study, we propose mobile manipulator perform related cleaning. Our key contributions include system integration multiple tools on an arm...
We have developed a ROS-based mobile manipulator for restroom cleaning with the capability to recognize garbage of various types (pieces paper, cups, and liquids) select most appropriate tool from three tools (suction hold, vacuuming, moping) effectively clean restroom. Upon deployment at Future Convenience Store Challenge World Robot Summit 2020, we obtained 1st Place in Restroom Cleaning Task an almost perfect score (96%).