DOTS: An Open Testbed for Industrial Swarm Robotic Solutions

03/25/2022
by   Simon Jones, et al.
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We present DOTS, a new open access testbed for industrial swarm robotics experimentation. It consists of 20 fast agile robots with high sensing and computational performance, and real-world payload capability. They are housed in an arena equipped with private 5G, motion capture, multiple cameras, and openly accessible via an online portal. We reduce barriers to entry by providing a complete platform-agnostic pipeline to develop, simulate, and deploy experimental applications to the swarm. We showcase the testbed capabilities with a swarm logistics application, autonomously and reliably searching for and retrieving multiple cargo carriers.

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