Autonomous Stair-Climbing Domestic Service Robot

The main goal of this project is to develop a more advanced version of the Robotic Stairclimbing Assistant (ROSA), a stair-climbing domestic service robot developed by Quantum Robotic Systems. ROSA can carry heavier household items (e.g., laundry baskets, bins, etc.) between rooms and up stairs. ROSA is meant to help seniors, people with compromised mobility, and isolated individuals cut off from caregivers during the COVID-19 crisis. The research conducted in this project will enable ROSA to use sensors and control software to navigate automatically along paths in your home that may include staircases. For example, starting point “A” could be a main-floor laundry room while ending point “B” could be an upstairs bedroom. The result will be a highly capable product that is unlike any other household robot currently available.

Faculty Supervisor:

Ryan Billinger;Simon Yang

Student:

Matthew McEachern;Giang Dang

Partner:

Quantum Robotic Systems Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

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