Robotics

Notable Robotics Projects

Notable Robotics Research in Singapore

Military Robots

Commissioning of SAF's New Float Bridge and CBRE Defence Capabilities. Retrieved Nov. 15, 2019 from DSTA

• Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Explosives (CBRE) developed by ST Engineering (previously known as ST Kinetics)
• Acoording to Wikipedia there are two notable exercises involving CBRE recently [link]

Fact Sheet: Trinity Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Explosives (CBRE) Robotic Suite. Retrieved Nov. 15, 2019 from MINDEF Singapore

• Trinity CBRE Robotic Suite is joint developed by Singapore Armed Forces CBRE Defence Group, DSO National Laboratories and Defence Science and Technology Agency
• It can be fitted into three different modes (detection, sampling and mitigation)
• Dimensions (with flipper extended): 879 mm x 406 mm x 181 mm
• Weight: 33 kg
• Max. Speed: 1.97 m/s
• Max. Slope: 38°
• Battery life: 2 to 2.5 hours

Autonomous Vehicle

(2019, Mar 5) Driverless electric bus launched by NTU and Volvo in 'world first'. Retrieved Nov. 15, 2019 from CNA

Single-deck Volvo 7900 Electric bus

• Passengers: 80 (36 seats)
• Zero-emissions vehicle and requires 80 per cent less energy than an equivalent-sized diesel bus
• Length: 12 m
• Location accuracy: up to 1cm
• This is Volvo's first fully autonomous and electric bus in public transportation

The 27th Singapore Robotic Games 2020

There are 10 games in the annual SRG namely:

1. RC Sumo Robot Competition
2. Autonomous Sumo Robot Competition
3. Legged Robot Marathon Race
4. Picomouse Competition
5. Underwater Robot Competition
6. Open Category
7. Wall Climbing Robot Race
8. Humanoid Robot Competition
9. Junior RC Sumo Robot Competition
10. Junior Autonomous Sumo Robot Competition

Notable I2R Robotics Research

Robotics Publications

Highly Cited Robotics Research

Selected Robotics Research

1. Social Robot
2. Healthcare Robot
3. Delivery Robot

Social Robot / Robotics

Bilge Mutlu, and Jodi Forlizzi, "Robots in organizations: the role of workflow, social, and environmental factors in human-robot interaction," In Proc. of 3rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human robot interaction, Amsterdam, pp. 287-294 , 2008. DOI: 10.1145/1349822.1349860

• Abstract: Robots are becoming increasingly integrated into the workplace, impacting organizational structures and processes, and affecting products and services created by these organizations. While robots promise significant benefits to organizations, their introduction poses a variety of design challenges. In this paper, they use ethnographic data collected at a hospital using an autonomous delivery robot to examine how organizational factors affect the way its members respond to robots and the changes engendered by their use. Their analysis uncovered dramatic differences between the medical and post-partum units in how people integrated the robot into their workflow and their perceptions of and interactions with it. Different patient profiles in these units led to differences in workflow, goals, social dynamics, and the use of the physical environment. In medical units, low tolerance for interruptions, a discrepancy between the perceived cost and benefits of using the robot, and breakdowns due to high traffic and clutter in the robot's path caused the robot to have a negative impact on the workflow and staff resistance. On the contrary, post-partum units integrated the robot into their workflow and social context. Based on their findings, they provide design guidelines for the development of robots for organizations. .

Healthcare Robot / Robotics

Tao Yang, Jiang Liu, Weimin Huang, Yi Su, Liangjing Yang, Chee Kong Chui, Marcelo H. Ang Jr., and Stephen K. Y. Chang, "Mechanism of a Learning Robot Manipulator for Laparoscopic Surgical Training," Intelligent Autonomous Systems, vol. 12, pp. 17-26, 2002. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-33932-5_3 [link]

• Abstract: This paper presents a robot manipulator for hand-over-hand guidance training of laparoscopic surgery. Details of the mechanical design, kinematic analysis and control mechanism of the robot are presented. The robot records motion of surgical tool manipulated by master surgeon, and provides physical guidance to the trainee based on the recorded motion. The robotic manipulator can accurately reproduce the five degree of freedom manipulation of laparoscopic instrument during surgery. A hybrid spherical mechanism is applied for decoupling and reproducing the motion of surgical tool to facilitate implementation of control mechanism. The manipulators for left and right hands are capable of precise execution of a recorded trajectory with observed maximum error of 2.12 mm and 2 mm respectively during an experiment on user interaction.

Delivery Robot / Robotics

J. M. Evans, "HelpMate: an autonomous mobile robot courier for hospitals," In Proc. of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'94), Munich, Germany, pp. 1695-1700, 1994. DOI: 10.1109/IROS.1994.407629

• Abstract: Transitions Research Corporation has achieved commercial success with HelpMate, their autonomous mobile robot courier for hospitals. Over 50 units are operational working in uncontrolled hospital environments up to 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. The navigation and system technologies embodied in HelpMate are described, emphasizing the impact of real world requirements on the engineering design.
• Related article: J. Evans, et al, " HelpMate™: A robotic materials transport system," Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 251-256, Nov. 1989. DOI: 10.1016/0921-8890(89)90049-3

N. Mathew, S. L. Smith, and S. L. Waslander, "Planning Paths for Package Delivery in Heterogeneous Multirobot Teams," IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 1298-1308, Oct. 2015. DOI: 10.1109/TASE.2015.2461213

• Abstract: The paper addresses the task scheduling and path planning problem for a team of cooperating vehicles performing autonomous deliveries in urban environments. The cooperating team comprises two vehicles with complementary capabilities, a truck restricted to travel along a street network, and a quadrotor micro-aerial vehicle of capacity one that can be deployed from the truck to perform deliveries. The problem is formulated as an optimal path planning problem on a graph and the goal is to find the shortest cooperative route enabling the quadrotor to deliver items at all requested locations. The problem is shown to be NP-hard. A solution is then proposed using a novel reduction to the Generalized Traveling Salesman Problem, for which well-established heuristic solvers exist. The heterogeneous delivery problem contains as a special case the problem of scheduling deliveries from multiple static warehouses. They propose two additional algorithms, based on enumeration and a reduction to the traveling salesman problem, for this special case. Simulation results compare the performance of the presented algorithms and demonstrate examples of delivery route computations over real urban street maps

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