Robotic System for Autonomous Luggage Trolley Collection and Arrangement at Airports

——Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Robotics Perception and Intelligence [P]

The purpose is to develop an intelligent robotic system for autonomous luggage trolley collection and arrangement in densely crowded environments such as airports. The robot finds, identifies and collects used luggage trolleys in the environment and transports them to designated locations for people to use. In order to realize the functions of robot’s fully autonomous navigation, identification, grabbing and transporting luggage trolleys, it is necessary to tackle the challenges of robot software and hardware system design, autonomous navigation and obstacle avoidance, luggage trolley identification and positioning. Therefore, the main research contents include robot positioning based on multi-sensor fusion, target recognition and pose detection based on deep learning, path planning based on nonlinear models, software and hardware integration of the intelligent robot system based on human-computer interaction, etc.