Autonomous Obstacle Bypassing

A Simplified Intelligent Autonomous Obstacle Bypassing Method for Mobile Robots - Mobicom2023

This demonstration focuses on the development of an autonomous robot designed to navigate around obstacles using only a camera for sensing. The robot is programmed to follow a predefined path through a line-following module while utilizing a custom object detection model to identify and distinguish obstacles on its route from other environmental objects. When the robot detects an obstacle, it employs an obstacle avoidance maneuver by adjusting its steering to navigate smoothly around the impediment.

Relevant Resources

Paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3570361.3614066

Github repository: https://github.com/ICONgroupCWC/ObstacleBypassing

First Step from Research to Practice

Codesign of Edge Intelligence and Automated Guided Vehicle Control - Precom2023

This is a demonstration of a semi-autonomous transportation task aided by edge intelligence. Here, an automated guided vehicle equipped with a robotic arm moves an object from a source to a destination specified by a human operator. The edge intelligence is used to identify the destination and to determine the exact drop point while a line following algorithm is deployed on the vehicle to navigate from source to destination.

Relevant Resources

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.09788

Github repository: https://github.com/ICONgroupCWC/Demo.Percom23