"Rugged Reliable Robotics," a Presentation from Carnegie Robotics

Chris Osterwood [email protected]

Carnegie Robotics Rugged Reliable Robotics

Founded in 2010 as a spin out of NREC.

Mission is to be a supplier of robust robotic

products across a variety of industries: military,

agriculture, mining, research.

Standard products and custom development.

60 FT staff, 2/3 is engineering.

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Robotic “Product Development” - Historical

• Current Conditions:

• Automotive, consumer electronics, and industrial automation markets generate many useful

starting points.

• Robotic applications are small, have demanding requirements, small development budgets and

schedule.

• Results for system integrators:

• Select components are non-optimal design from a size, weight, environmental, interface, and/or

power perspective.

• They build much of the supporting infrastructure for their actual product & reinventing the wheel

separately.

• Result for the industry : Good & reusable components are not available.



Carnegie Robotics Product Development Cycle

• Carnegie Robotics is break the cycle by:

• Identifying underserved robotic applications with overlapping

requirements.

• Finding the right first customers.

• Taking risks.

• Investing in key areas of need : perception, positioning, power.



MultiSense S7, S21, & SL

Color overlay by depth on 2MP image.

Single frame of data, straight from S7.

3D point cloud constructed by software downstream of SL

Visual odometry on stereo + LIDAR

• All stereo processing performed onboard. Camera is permanently calibrated at the factory.

• Implements high-quality Semi-Global-Matching (Hirschműller SGM) stereo algorithm in FPGA logic.

• User’s choice of 2 billion SGM pixel-disparities per second from onboard FPGA processor:

• Gigabit Ethernet output of disparities and rectified images (user-selectable image types, frame-rate).

• IP-68 rating, 8 watts, MIL-STD-810G, -40oC to 60oC, monitors temp., humidity, and pressure. MEMs IMU.



MultiSense SL : Robot-First Sensor

~150m



Autonomous Mine Detection System

Photos on this slide are Approved for Public Release by

US Army RDECOM CERDEC NVESD on March 6 2012.

Photos are from year 1 of a 2 year technical risk reduction

effort preceding the AMDS program of record EMD Phase,

awarded to CRL in 2014.

Carnegie Robotics was the prime & principal designer of

this Talon payload that turns it into a IED and Mine

detection platform.



RowBot LLC

• CRL has partnered with RowBot, LLC to design &

commercialize an in-row, autonomous, nitrogen

delivery robot for corn fields.

• Vehicle was purpose designed for this task by CRL.

• Navigation, in-row guidance, and obstacle detection

via Precision GPS and our MultiSense SL 3D sensor.

• Diesel engine powering a 4WD hydraulic system with

actuated center steering linkage.

• Orange body is the gas & nitrogen storage tanks.

• Single technician can operate four systems

simultaneously.


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