De werkdruk in winkels is de afgelopen jaren fors toegenomen. Onderbezetting, taakvervaging en personeelstekorten zetten medewerkers én ondernemers onder druk. Winkelpersoneel ervaart stress, valt uit of verlaat de sector, terwijl nieuwe medewerkers schaars zijn. Tegelijkertijd biedt technologische innovatie …

Technical report summarizing the work of KIEM Spotter

In het artikel "Liever een humanoïde of een niet-humanoïde robot op de winkelvloer?" (Van de Sanden et al., 2024) onderzochten Stephanie van de Sanden, Ewout Nas, Jacqueline Arnoldy, Tibert Verhagen, Filip Otten en Koen Hindriks welke type sociale robot beter past binnen een winkelomgeving: de mensachtige …

In het artikel "Waarom hebben sociale robots in de supermarkt (nog) geen succes als wijnadviseur?" (Hindriks et al., 2024) onderzochten Koen Hindriks, Stephanie van de Sanden, Merle Reimann, Jesper van de Graaf, Nina van Gulik, Jacqueline Arnoldy, Ewout Nas, Filip Otten en Tibert Verhagen de inzet van …

This work describes the design, implementation and validation of an autonomous gas leakage inspection robot. Navigation with centimeter level accuracy is achieved using RTK GNSS integrated using the ROS 2 and Nav2 frameworks. The proposed solution has been validated successfully in terms of navigation …

This setup manual is meant to build the hardware for the CHARISMA setup, which contains the SPOT robot, backpack + GPS, gas sensor and beacon. The CHARISMA Demo Manual (KP01) will help to understand how to use software with the setup for autonomous exploration.

In this document you can find the code repository for the backpack.

Within our research on robotic gas detection, we have focused on making a prototype based on Boston Dynamics SPOT, because it takes a lot of difficulties out of prototyping. For instance, it has its own obstacle avoidance algorithm, good drivers are available for ROS2, and SPOT is meant for outdoor …

RTK-GNSS (Real Time Kinematic - Global Navigation Satellite System) is based on a ‘rover’ GNSS antenna that receives error correction information from a ‘base’ GNSS antenna. While the rover can be placed on a robot to move around, the base station has the additional ‘knowledge’ of being stationary. …

The objective of this report is to share the results of the test that we have made to evaluate the localization performance of the Spot robot across three scenarios, each featuring different velocities in both translation and rotation.