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D2.1 Requirements and Specification - CORBYS

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<strong>D2.1</strong> <strong>Requirements</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Specification</strong><br />

Figure 54: Autonomous vs. manual investigation of contamination area including sampling<br />

To meet the project objective, Reco Rob has to satisfy the following basic requirements:<br />

� the system must allow the user to guide the mobile unit for acquiring information concerning the<br />

air/water/soil relevant parameters (like contamination) <strong>and</strong> to gather samples for further investigations,<br />

� the sample gathering must be performed cross-contamination free,<br />

� the comm<strong>and</strong>s for guiding the unit as well as data acquired must be sent instantly to base using the<br />

wireless communication,<br />

� the transferred measurement data as well as information regarding stage of the task execution must be<br />

visualised on an ergonomic way,<br />

� the movement of the unit must be realised manually using a control joystick, or automatically,<br />

� a vision system is needed on the mobile to provide impression of tele-presence,<br />

� the mobile unit must report also the GPS data, for localisation <strong>and</strong> for data map generation,<br />

� in the case of an emergency, the mobile unit must be able to return to base executing a track-back of the<br />

route,<br />

� the construction of a mobile unit <strong>and</strong>/or components must allow decontamination in order to provide<br />

multiple usage of the system.<br />

To satisfy the functional requirements the system is endowed with various hardware devices as can be seen in<br />

Figure 55. For actuation the SCHUNK/degrees of freedom (DoF) lightweight robot arm is mounted on the<br />

mobile platform. The sensor system consists of a force-torque sensor in the manipulators wrist, a stereo<br />

camera system for 3D reconstruction, a camera for workspace observation <strong>and</strong> a camera for thermal<br />

inspection of the work area.<br />

(a)<br />

(b)<br />

Figure 55: (a) Hardware setup of the RecoRob reconnaissance robotic system,<br />

(b) Mapped Virtual Reality (MVR) used as simulation environment in the RecoRob system<br />

17.2 Intelligent automated investigation of a hazardous environment<br />

To overcome the difficulties <strong>and</strong> limitations of teleoperation it is absolutely necessary to move beyond<br />

teleoperation <strong>and</strong> develop robot intelligence that can be interleaved with human intelligence. The Idaho<br />

National Engineering <strong>and</strong> Environmental Laboratory (INEEL) has developed a mixed-initiative robotic<br />

system which can shift modes of autonomy on the fly, relying on its own intrinsic intelligence to protect itself<br />

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