ASDA (Autonomous Snack Delivery Android) was developed as a collaborative effort in a team of 8 people as part of our third year group project at Imperial College London in 2016 supervised by Prof. Petar Kormushev. The goal of this project was to implement an autonomous snack delivery software that integrates with Robot DE NIRO, a modified version of Baxter from the Robot Intelligence Lab at Imperial. During this project, I was in charge of implementing navigation and motion planning.
DE NIRO was programmed to autonomously navigate our department building to buy snacks and bring it back to the user. We implemented a speech recognition system to take order, elevator button pressing based on visual servoing with floor recognition, robust collision avoidance, dynamic mapping and localization. Check out the demo!
Tags: Robotics, ROS, C++, Python, Electronics