Collaborative Robotics: Uncage the Robots RoboUniverse April 11, 2016

Nathan Schuett @prenavinc

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Asa developed the robotic motion control system used to shoot Alphonso Cuaron’s Oscar-winning film Gravity and Bot & Dolly’s short film Box

Nathan and Asa (co-founders at PRENAV) designed, built, and installed the mechatronic camera systems for Google’s Winter Wonderlabs

ABOUT ME

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Nathan Schuett - Co-founder & CEO at PRENAV

Robotics at SCR. Product, mktg for Lolapps, EA, Microsoft, Antenna Audio. Rowed crew and studied computer music at Stanford.

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Work safely alongside humans - removing the cageCOLLABORATIVE ROBOTS

Semi-autonomous robots that help a worker accomplish their day to day job

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YuMi by ABBBaxter and Sawyer by Rethink Robotics

LBR iiwa by KUKAUR5 by Universal Robots CR-35iA by Fanuc

MEET YOUR NEW CO-WORKERS

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MEET YOUR NEW CO-WORKERS

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eXom by senseFlyDJI Phantom 4

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Drones that are able to safely fly close to humans and structuresMEET YOUR NEW CO-WORKERS

Gimball Skydio SkySpecs

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Drones aren’t quite collaborative yet. Primarily operated by service companies / experts. Not a tool for the workforce, but perhaps soon.

IN PRACTICE

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Here’s how drones need to improve to become collaborative robots

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FEATURES: FORCE LIMITATION

Safe design through power, speed and force limitations

Power and Force Limitation Speed/size limits, propellers that can stop spinning instantly

(tech doesn’t exist yet)

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FEATURES: TRAINING / PATH PLANNING

Human guided paths, or intuitive robot training and planning

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FEATURES: COLLISION AVOIDANCE

Ability to sense and avoid objects and people

Phantom 4Toyota

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FEATURES: APPEARANCE

Human-like features

LilyBaxter

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FEATURES: PERHAPS HUMAN-LIKE MOVEMENT AND CAPABILITIES?

Coming soon…

“Towards Valve Turning using a Dual-Arm Aerial Manipulator,” by Christopher Korpela,

Matko Orsag, and Paul Oh, from Drexel University.

“Construction with Quadrotor Teams” by Quentin Lindsey, Daniel Mellinger, and Vijay

Kumar from GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania.

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BENEFIT: ERGONOMIC ADVANTAGE

Collaborative robots help take away some of the most difficult, grueling, and painful tasks, so people can focus on other things

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BENEFIT: EMPOWERMENT

Give someone responsibility for the care of a robot and their job satisfaction increases

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NEW HORIZONS

Collaborative robots are able to enter new places and markets

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PRENAV: PUSHING TOWARDS A MORE COLLABORATIVE DRONE

Full automation, so drones can be safe close to structures and people

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We combine onboard computer vision with a base map of the environment

(as captured by a scanner on the ground)Who else does that?

Google scans streets with lidar in advance, building a 3D map to make autonomous

driving simpler

PRENAV (2014)

OUR APPROACH

Enhance onboard computer vision with ground-based sensors

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1. Scan

2. Plan

3. Fly

HOW IT WORKS

We use a ground-based guidance system to make our drones simple, safe and reliable regardless of who is operating the system

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HOW IT WORKS

Tools so users can easily build 3D paths within the actual environment

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Collaborative Robotics: Uncage the Robots RoboUniverse April 11, 2016

Nathan Schuett @prenavinc

THANK YOU!