Robotics industry boom, the birth of "Robot Chassis" This sub-category
It is understood that in 2013 consumer robot market will be worth around $ 15 billion, especially in China will face an aging population, rising labor costs and labor issues such as dividend gradually disappear, therefore, an urgent need to speed up our "machine substitutions" in speed, driven by the wave of intelligent robot-related companies competing layout of the track.
Of course, the robotics industry technical threshold is relatively high, although popular support and capital policy, but technological competition is hard power. From the current point of view, China's robot enterprises are mainly concentrated in the low-tech, not high profit margins of the middle and lower reaches, to master the technique of entrants, the choice of hardware and software upstream market may have more opportunities, including the robot chassis, both autonomous positioning, navigation underlying hardware modules, while one of the important hardware is also essential service robots.
Robot chassis for the importance of the robot body, as much importance on human legs, in other words, service robots in addition to the functions of voice interaction, content and other ecological aspects of software implementation, are the other important part of this robot chassis module on the chassis highlights the importance of the robot, resulting in the influx of more and more enterprises which, which also includes some of the traditional giants Tencent, Baidu and a number of shares of class a shares of technology companies invested some robot chassis enterprises, but also the reaction from the side the importance of the industry. At the same time, good to the robot chassis also indicates that the market demand for downstream products is on the rise.
High robot chassis technical barriers, product landing hard
Robot chassis there has been greater development potential, but from a technical floor to the product, with high barriers to entry, need to have independent, Exploiting map, navigation and other functions, and can do autonomous and automatic path planning to avoid obstacles, intelligent walking robot.
Secondly, technical barriers to the robot chassis further characterized by multiple sensors in different scenarios fusion, from the object level, the robot chassis mainly many sensor integration, including laser radar, depth camera, ultrasonic, infrared, anti-collision fall or the like, and the hub motors, wheels and other necessary suspension. And how will the physical level hardware collection, you need the appropriate algorithms and corresponding software and other related technologies.
另外，机器人底盘的研发属于高端制造行业，研发周期长，试错成本高，如没有固定的资金供应链及技术积累，对初创企业来说，将很难实现盈利增收，需要投入的技术研发、材料等成本费用较高，资金回流也将会是很大的难题。所以，并非所有的入局者都能成功领跑，在实际的应用场景中，对机器人底盘的技术要求越来越高，不仅要保证机器人的平稳运行，同时又要对其成本降低。因此，低成本、高性能且通用的机器人底盘将是全行业的研究方向。
企业纷纷入局机器人底盘赛道，争夺底盘市场
据统计，目前国内涉足机器人底盘的企业已有10余家，其中不仅有专注于机器人本体的企业，也有像思岚科技这种专注于机器人定位导航领域的企业。
从上表中可看出，除了思岚科技，国内的布科思、云迹、EAI等厂商也涌入其中，大部分企业都以轮式机器人底盘为主，且应用在服务机器人上居多。相比来说，轮式机器人底盘运行速度更快，运动噪声更低，应用在服务型机器人上更为适合，而履带式机器人底盘由于牵引力较大、不易打滑、越野性能好等优点，因此在特种机器人身上更为适用。
作为我国最早入局机器人底盘赛道的企业，思岚科技在实现机器人自主行走技术中具有丰富的研发及实践经验。以思岚科技为首的机器人底盘ZEUS已能做到自主定位建图、路径规划及自主避障等功能，不仅知道周边环境还能识别自己所在位置，同时采用SharpEdge构图技术，构建厘米级高精度地图。
ZEUS不仅采用了国内领先的SLAM技术，还融合了激光雷达、深度摄像头、超声波、防跌落等多种传感器数据，配合导航算法，更能灵活的规划行走路线。
当雷达扫描区域上方出现障碍物时，将使用融合导航技术，通过深度摄像头、超声波、雷达等传感器全面感观周围环境，规避障碍物并重新规划路线。利用超声波传感器精准探测玻璃、镜面等高透材质障碍物，从而再靠近这些物体前及时避让。
在获取自身定位、地图数据后，配合思岚科技自主研发的SLAMWARE自主定位导航算法，融合多传感器数据，可实现自主避障、规划路线，在各种障碍物之间穿梭自如。
Lan think because technology itself is a focus on robot navigation technology companies, so the robot's chassis products on the environment perception, path planning, obstacle avoidance and other functions are also advantages. Today, the robot chassis think Lan technology has been applied to mature restaurants, shopping malls, banks, supermarkets, airports and other service robots.