Integration of an ABB industrial robot with a MRDS enabled mobile robot platform and experiments for track motion applications

Conference: ISR/Robotik 2014 - 45th International Symposium on Robotics; 8th German Conference on Robotics
06/02/2014 - 06/03/2014 at München, Germany

Proceedings: ISR/Robotik 2014

Pages: 8Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Patel, Rajendra; Lehtola, Marko; Lemarinier, Pavel (ABB Corporate Research, Vaesteras, Sweden)

Abstract:
This paper describes the integration of an ABB industrial robot with a Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio (MRDS) enabled mobile robot platform. A generic software solution has been devised which can be used for any ABB industrial robot and a feasibility demonstrator has been built for some initial experiments and evaluations. The feasibility demonstrator has been built to help understand current state-of-the-art in commercially available mobile robot navigation and evaluate / demonstrate capabilities of current technology with a mobile manipulator demonstrator platform. Indoor "shop floor" like environments are considered for this demonstrator. The results of using the feasibility demonstrator for track-motion applications are described.