With the acceleration of the aging trend of the population, the increase in labor costs of enterprises and the reduction of people's willingness to repeat labor, it is an inevitable trend to let service robots replace humans to perform simple and repetitive tasks. At present, service robots have been applied in many fields such as restaurants, hospitals, hotels, banks, etc. As a service type robot, autonomous movement is inevitable.
The robot development platform is the basic hardware to realize the autonomous movement of the service robot. It carries multiple functions such as positioning, navigation, and obstacle avoidance of the robot, and can directly help the robot realize autonomous walking. But for robot companies, independent research and development will face problems such as long cycle and high cost, so the sub-category of mobile chassis was born.
The increasing popularity of mobile robots has attracted many companies to participate. It is understood that there are currently nearly 20 companies in my country that carry out market-oriented operations on robot development platforms. How to choose suitable robot development platform products among the many chassis?
For the choice of the robot development platform, we do not need to rush to browse the information of each product on the market, but the entire team must first analyze the requirements, list the required functions, and consider the cost. In this way, we can compare the basic functions and the expected value of the chassis to find a satisfactory product.
According to statistics, there are not only companies that focus on robots on the robot development platform track, but also companies like Silan Technology that focus on robot positioning and navigation technology.
From the above figure, we can understand that most companies are mainly based on wheeled robot development platforms. Compared with other chassis, wheeled robot development platforms run faster and have lower motion noise. They are more applied to service robots. Suitable.
Among the many companies with mobile chassis, Silan Technology is the first company in my country to propose the concept of a robot development platform. The first chassis product in my country was born from Silan Technology. At present, its chassis products have been widely used in restaurants, hospitals, retail and other fields.
Subject to price factors, chassis products have not been dominant in the consumer market. The prices on the market are generally too high, mostly between 20,000 and 100,000 yuan, which is difficult for many companies and consumers to bear such high costs. In order to solve this problem, Silan Technology reduced the cost from the source of technical design, while ensuring performance, lowered the bulk price to the price of a smart phone-it is Silan Technology's Athena universal robot Development Platform.
It is reported that the Athena body is small and flexible, and has a wide range of applications. It not only has perfect positioning and navigation and path planning capabilities, but also has strong adaptability to compact environments. It is also suitable for complex and narrow indoor spaces. It can be equipped with different applications. The development needs of various light and small robots.
At the same time, it has strong recognition, perception, understanding, judgment and action capabilities. It has a built-in high-performance SLAM cube autonomous positioning and navigation kit independently developed by Silan Technology, with laser + vision dual navigation. In addition to lidar, a variety of sensors such as ultrasonic, depth camera, anti-collision, and anti-dropping are also integrated to ensure the stable operation of the robot.
Athena can realize real-time positioning and high-precision mapping in unknown environments. Even in a large scene of one million square meters, Athena is not stage fright. When it encounters obstacles with high-transmittance materials such as glass and mirrors, it will not hit like a headless fly. Athena with ultrasonic sensors can identify such obstacles in time.
In addition to getting rid of obstacles of high-transparent materials, when encountering some prohibited areas, Athena does not need to make adjustments on the spot. It can directly set up pure software through RoboStudio, set up virtual walls/virtual tracks, and help the robot understand the logical concepts in the environment.
In addition, Athena continues the elevator adaptation and multi-floor positioning system of the Silan Technology chassis, supports most of the elevator systems on the market, and can go up and down the elevator autonomously.