CNIT 581 - Software Design and Development for Robotics

This is a blog for the course CNIT 581 Software Design and Development in Robotics taught by Prof. Byung-Cheol Min at Purdue University for Spring 2020.

Project Name:- DESKBOT

The aim of this project is to develop a robotic system to arrange/unclutter the average office table environment.

Key Components of the project:

Robot Motion planning and execution
Machine Vision to observe all objects in the environment.

Team Members:-

Hitesh V Gokaraju
Vishnunandan LN Venkatesh

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DESKBOT UPDATE 3

Scene Segmentation and Object Detection The robot has to know its environment before taking an action, a sensor is required is to perceive the environment and know what things exist. In our case, we use a 2D camera to know where and how the objects and the robots are positioned. We use Mask R-CNN to perform instance segmentation and object detection or use YOLO for object detection. Mask R-CNN is divided into two modules, first, it estimates the regions where the objects can exist on the input image. Second, based on the initial estimation it identifies the class of the object and generates a mask in the pixel level. In the initial step, the RPN (Residual Pooling Network) scans all FPN (Feature Pyramid Network) in a top-bottom approach and estimates where the objects exist on the input image. Once the estimation is done a bounding box is assigned to the anchor (anchors are a set of boxes with predefined locations). RPN helps in the anchor to decide where in the feature...

DESKBOT Update 7 - Final Update !

Final Overview & Results The DeskBot system was setup up on an experimental desk testbed. The Intel Real sense camera was mounted directly above the center of the table at a distance of 30 inches. The right corner of the table is the robots initial resting location. Three major modules were used as explained in the updates previously, Scene Segmentation and Object Detection Robot Path Planning and Object Manipulation Coverage Path Planning The results pertaining to each of these modules are detailed below, Scene Segmentation and Object Detection To help the DeskBot system perceive and observe its environment YOLO object detector was implemented to classify 5 classes (pencil, erasers/rubbers, pens, staplers, remotes). YOLO was successfully implemented with an accuracy of 90%. A dataset was also created an annotated for the same calss of objects for training. As a future work more desk/workspace objects could be trained to be seamlessly declu...

DESKBOT Update 6

Robot Path Planning for Object Manipulation Over the past several weeks we've shown how the DeskBot system performs Scene segmentation and Object detection. We have also covered the Hamster robot and its role. In this update lets dive into the robot operations. Once the system is capable of perceiving the scene and detect all the objects present in it, we can enable our robot with multiple behaviors aimed at manipulating an object and pushing it towards a goal. From the Scene Segmentation and Object Detection module we get the following, Positions and centroids of the robot Positions and centroid of the detected unique objects Table dimensions and location of the object holder goal points Euclidian distance from the objects to their respective goal holder Figure below shows a technical overview of how Robot – object manipulation is achieved. Using all the above information from the scene segmentation module we can obtain closed loop vision fe...

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