Autonomous Cleaning Robot with Task-Level Programming

Objective

The objective of the ACRO project is to design an autonomous cleaning robot for use in industrial and commercial environments such as airports, offices, supermarkets and factories.

The approach will include:

- programming at the task level, with heavy emphasis on ease of use to meet the needs of unskilled operators
- model-based navigation, supported by sensor and gyroscope input
- autonomous operation, with ultrasonic sensors for collision avoidance
- development of mechatronic devices and sensors to automate the cleaning process.

Emphasis at all points will be on low-cost components.

Two industrial partners who use cleaning equipment will evaluate the prototypes resulting from the project. The project results will be incorporated in products which will be marketed by vendor consortium members.

Programme(s)

• FP3-ESPRIT 3 - Specific research and technological development programme (EEC) in the field of information technologies, 1990-1994

Coordinator

HAKO-WERKE GMBH & CO

Address

Hamburger Straße 209-239
23843 Bad Oldesloe
Germany

Participants (8)

British Railways Board

United Kingdom

Address

29 Denison House
DN1 1PD Doncaster

CONSORTIUM DE MAINTENANCE ET DE TECHNOLOGIE

France

Address

49-53 Boulevard De Charonne
75011 Paris

Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA)

France

Address

Centre D'études De Grenoble 17 Avenue Des Martyrs
38041 Grenoble

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Angewandten Forschung eV (FhG)

Germany

Address

Nobelstraße 12
70569 Stuttgart

LINAK

Denmark

Address

Smedevaenget, 8
6430 Soenderjylland

ROL

France

Address

Rue Rene Razel
91892 Orsay

Sagem SA

France

Address

27 Rue Leblanc Le Ponant De Paris
75512 Paris

UNIVERSITAET STUTTGART

Germany

Address

Nobelstrasse 12C
70569 Stuttgart