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Top-Level Structural and Mechatronic Design of a 6WD Outdoor Autonomous Delivery Robot with a Redesigned Adaptive Climbing Rocker-Bogie Suspension

Abstract

This paper presents the design, construction and development of an autonomous delivery robot aimed at structured environment such as university campuses, hospitals, residential estates and factories. The system integrates a six wheeled differential drive platform with a redesign adaptive climbing rocker-boogie suspension system. It makes use of an array of high precision sensors such as LIDAR, ultrasonic sensors, IR sensors, depth camera, real time kinematics (RTK) GPS for real time navigation and obstacle detection. The autonomous delivery robot is managed using ROS 2-based system running on an Nvidia Jetson nanoand features a mobile application for remote tracking, management and control. Simulation based testing in gazebo as well as experimental validation was conducted to evaluate the robot’s autonomous behavior and delivery performance.

Research topics

  • Control and Dynamics of Mobile Robots
  • Soft Robotics and Applications
  • Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence

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DOI: 10.4028/p-42qwvi

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