The STRANDS project: long-term autonomy in everyday environments
Hawes, Nick, Burbridge, Christopher, Jovan, Ferdian, Kunze, Lars, Lacerda, Bruno, Mudrova, Lenka, Young, Jay, Wyatt, Jeremy, Hebesberger, Denise, Kortner, Tobias, Ambrus, Rares, Bore, Nils, Folkesson, John, Jensfelt, Patric, Beyer, Lucas, Hermans, Alexander, Leibe, Bastian, Aldoma, Aitor, Faulhammer, Thomas, Zillich, Michael, Vincze, Markus, Chinellato, Eris 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1920-2238, Al-Omari, Muhannad, Duckworth, Paul, Gatsoulis, Yiannis, Hogg, David C., Cohn, Anthony G., Dondrup, Christian, Pulido Fentanes, Jaime, Krajnik, Tomas, Santos, Joao M., Duckett, Tom and Hanheide, Marc
(2017)
The STRANDS project: long-term autonomy in everyday environments.
IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, 24
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pp. 146-156.
ISSN 1070-9932
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(doi:10.1109/MRA.2016.2636359)
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Abstract
Thanks to the efforts of the robotics and autonomous systems community, the myriad applications and capacities of robots are ever increasing. There is increasing demand from end users for autonomous service robots that can operate in real environments for extended periods. In the Spatiotemporal Representations and Activities for Cognitive Control in Long-Term Scenarios (STRANDS) project (http://strandsproject.eu), we are tackling this demand head-on by integrating state-of-the-art artificial intelligence and robotics research into mobile service robots and deploying these systems for long-term installations in security and care environments. Our robots have been operational for a combined duration of 104 days over four deployments, autonomously performing end-user-defined tasks and traversing 116 km in the process. In this article, we describe the approach we used to enable long-term autonomous operation in everyday environments and how our robots are able to use their long run times to improve their own performance.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Research Areas: | A. > School of Science and Technology |
| Item ID: | 23829 |
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| Depositing User: | Eris Chinellato |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Mar 2018 15:42 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Dec 2022 16:59 |
| URI: | https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/id/eprint/23829 |
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