An Open-Source Framework for Last Mile Delivery with Heterogeneous Robots
SMADS Software Stack
Abstract
The SMADS project at the University of Texas at Austin develops software for autonomous robot deliveries on campus. It integrates various subsystems like autonomy, scheduling, interface, and a customer app. The study reports on delivering lemonade outdoors to campus buildings and highlights advancements in integrating end-users and robot autonomy into an open-source architecture. Over 5 days, 26 lemonade delivery trips were completed using two robot platforms. The paper discusses challenges, offers solutions, and suggests future work for deploying autonomous robots outdoors.
Team
Asha Kailin Jain, Maxwell Svetlik, Nicholas Machak, Kavan Singh Sikand, Cem Karamanli, Kaiyu Zhou, Justin Hart, Joydeep Biswas, Luis Sentis, Junfeng Jiao
