ICRA 2015 AVERT: An Autonomous Multi-Robot System for Vehicle Extraction and Transportation

In this video, a swarm of robots is able to extract vehicles from confined spaces with delicate handling, swiftly and in any direction. The novel lifting robots are capable of omnidirectional movement, thus they can under-ride the desired vehicle and dock to its wheels for a synchronized lifting and extraction. The overall developed system applies reasoning about available trajectory paths, wheel identification, local and undercarriage obstacle detection, in order to fully automate the process.

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+9 1. Firebird commented 9 years ago

Car theft just became a looot easier...
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+5 2. Pyranthos commented 9 years ago

"swiftly and in any direction." Not so sure about the swiftly part, but still some pretty impressive tech. i would look at it more as a disaster scenario recovery device, like potential sink holes to dangerous for someone to try to drive it away from, or washout or smth. When I think emergency, I think in dire need of quick handling, a sense of urgency. This thing, from my perspective, was slow as sin.

Neat toy, nice tech, but limited usefulness imo. Imagine the prank to be had on professors with a now sideways parked car, boxed in on either end by pillars or something. Probably exactly what gave birth to this brainchild. lol
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+1 3. Sizzlik (admin) commented 9 years ago

Car theft 2.0 >:)
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+2 4. thundersnow commented 9 years ago

Ha, need one in case I get in a tricky spot with my car.
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+2 5. cameramaster commented 9 years ago

With that music as well this will no doubt be appearing in the next James Bond or Mission impossible film.
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+5 6. Malakyte commented 9 years ago

Clever, but they need to work on the speed or else, our parking tickets will be more expensive. >:)
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+1 7. BooTheGoose commented 9 years ago

Does two qualify as a swarm?
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+3 8. torbengb commented 9 years ago

It does require an extremely flat floor, though... Any ridge, or drain, or even a pebble, would present a serious obstacle. Still - nice idea!
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+1 9. Judge-Jake commented 9 years ago

With a bit of design alteration on the mother ship it could be Thunderbird Five. The music would be more fitting to this video also 'Dum Der Der Dum, Der Der Dum Der Dum Der Der Dum Dum Dum' >:)
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+2 10. isitmeor commented 9 years ago

q: and how much does this thing cost ?
a: well, it's 200.000$ but the price will go down "swiftly" in the next years

In computer science there is a term for the programmers that create overly complex solutions for simple problems. They are called "architecture astronauts".
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+3 11. Jim777 commented 9 years ago

it's amazing, they are slower than my ex... 8-)
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+3 12. loadrunner commented 9 years ago

How to steal a car, without setting off the alarm.
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+2 13. watsonlr commented 9 years ago

Or you can just buy a set of Go-jacks (or similar). They are pretty common in most parking garages. Jack up all four wheels and push the car out of the way...
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+1 14. kouzoukiz commented 9 years ago

Μπρ?βο ?λληνες! :)