Door-to-Door Parcel Delivery From Supply Point to User’s Home With Heterogeneous Robot Team: The euROBIN First-Year Robotics Hackathon
Logistics and service operations involving parcel preparation, delivery, and unpacking from a supply point to a user’s home could be carried out completely by robots in the near future, taking advantage of the capabilities of the different robot morphologies for the logistics, outdoor, and domestic environments. The use of robots for parcel delivery can contribute to the goals of sustainability and reduced emissions by exploiting their different locomotion modalities (wheeled, legged, and aerial). This article reports the development and results obtained from the first robotics hackathon celebrated as part of the European Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Network involving eight robotic platforms in three domains: 1) an industrial robotic arm for parcel preparation at the supply point, 2) a Centauro robot, a dual-arm aerial manipulator, and a wheeled-legged quadruped for parcel transportation, and 3) two humanoid robots and two commercial mobile manipulators for parcel delivery and unpacking in domestic scenarios. The article describes the joint operation and the evaluation scenario, the features and capabilities of the robots, particularly those involved in the realization of the tasks, and the lessons learned.
Authors
- Rainer Kartmann (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8891-9366)
- Stéphane Doncieux (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1541-054X)
- Felix Hundhausen
- Werner Friedl (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3002-7274)
- François Hélénon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6888-1014)
- Alessio De Luca (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2854-6000)
- Quentin Rouxel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9829-4585)
- Tamim Asfour (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4879-7680)
- V. Perez-Sanchez (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6498-1002)
- Lorenz Wellhausen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5148-754X)
- Joonho Lee (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5072-7385)
- Arturo Laurenzi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9065-1266)
- Freek Stulp (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9555-9517)
- Xuwei Wu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2616-9149)
- Marko Bjelonic (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9123-3920)
- Serena Ivaldi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5349-9835)
- Alexander Reske
- Peter Schmaus (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6639-0967)
- Alejandro Suárez (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4549-6957)
- Philippe Gauthier (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5039-6985)
- Nikos G. Tsagarakis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9877-8237)
- Jean-Baptiste Mouret (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2513-027X)
- Anne E. Reichert (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-3980-983X)
- Antonio González-Morgado (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1991-0843)
- Aline Baudry
- Sung Yong Jung (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1888-1016)
- Begoña C. Arrue (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1777-2675)
- Marco Hutter (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4285-4990)
- Fabian Peller-Konrad (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8120-933X)
- Vamsi Krishna Guda (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0519-8907)
- Jianfeng Gao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6371-505X)
- Mohamed Chétouani (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2920-4539)
- Rudolph Triebel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7975-036X)
- Rodrigo Serra (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8288-8928)
- Olivier Rochel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1716-3650)
- Carlos Álvarez (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-5601-9293)
- Lorenzo Baccelliere (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3396-328X)
- Carlos Azevedo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8842-8989)
- Anı́bal Ollero (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2155-2472)
- Christoph Pohl (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4206-3312)
- Lioba Suchenwirth (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3148-5990)
- Noémie Jaquier (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3565-9414)
- Luca Muratore (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1265-3370)
- Thomas Gumpert
- Pascal Weiner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2524-8454)
- Rui Bettencourt (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0917-5232)
- Fabian Reister (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8063-9079)
- Marco Sewtz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1662-534X)
- Pedro U. Lima (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8962-8050)
- Andre Meixner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4823-0687)
- Alin Albu‐Schäffer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5343-9074)
- Christian Dreher (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-1919)
- Adrian S. Bauer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1171-4709)
- Franziska Krebs (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8565-9386)
- Florian Lay (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5706-3278)
- Daniel Leidner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5091-7122)
- Anne Köpken
- Hippolyte Watrelot (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-7359-089X)
- Mouad Abrini
- Nesrine Batti (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-2404-158X)
- J.B. Huber (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-7099-3142)
- Luca Rossini (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2114-3823)
- Frederick H. Schmidt (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5620-1368)
- Pablo Viana
- Diego Vedelago
- Corrado Burchielli
- Rebecca Schedl-Warpup
Institutions
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- University of Lisbon (PT)
- Universidade Politécnica de Lisboa (PT)
- Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e. V. (DLR) (DE)
- Italian Institute of Technology (IT)
- Sorbonne Université (FR)
- Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy (FR)
- Centre de Recherche en Informatique (FR)
- Institut Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique (FR)
- Universidad de Sevilla (ES)
Publication Details
- Journal
- IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine
- Published
- 2024-12-31
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1109/mra.2024.3501954
- Citations
- 5
- Primary Topic
- IoT and Edge/Fog Computing
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.74
Funders
- European Commission