Dustbot

Dustbot uses different localisation and uses GPS navigation{{Cite web

| title = Dustbot the street cleaning robot

| publisher = BBC World News

| author = Duncan Kennedy

| date = 29 May 2009

| accessdate = 8 June 2009

| url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/8072619.stm

| archive-date = 16 October 2019

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}} combined with pre-loaded maps.{{Cite web

|title = Robot garbage cart set to hit Italian streets

|publisher = TG Daily

|author = Emma Woollacott

|date = 29 May 2009

|accessdate = 8 June 2009

|url = http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/42637/135/

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|archivedate = 2 June 2009

}} It uses a gyroscope to keep it upright, and has ultrasonic, infrared and laser sensors to avoid collisions with static and dynamic obstacles.

It is able to monitor pollution through a number of air quality sensors,

{{Cite web |title=DustCart, a Mobile Robot for Urban Environments: Experiments of Pollution Monitoring and Mapping during Autonomous Navigation in Urban Scenarios |publisher=Proceedings of International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2010) Workshop on Networked and Mobile Robot Olfaction in Natural, Dynamic Environments |author1=Gabriele Ferri |author2=Alessio Mondini |author3=Alessandro Manzi |author4=Barbara Mazzolai |author5=Cecilia Laschi |author5-link=Cecilia Laschi|author6=Virgilio Mattoli |author7=Matteo Reggente |author8=Todor Stoyanov |author9=Achim J. Lilienthal |author10=Marco Lettere |author11=Paolo Dario |date=May 2010 |accessdate= |url=http://www.aass.oru.se/Research/mro/publications/Ferri_etal_2010-ICRA_WS10-DustCart_Mobile_Robot_Urban_Environments_Experiments_Pollution_Monitoring_Mapping_Urban_Scenarios.html |archive-date=2016-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303234352/http://www.aass.oru.se/Research/mro/publications/Ferri_etal_2010-ICRA_WS10-DustCart_Mobile_Robot_Urban_Environments_Experiments_Pollution_Monitoring_Mapping_Urban_Scenarios.html |url-status=live }} and can warn if the levels are too high.{{Cite web

|title = Robots to sweep the streets

|publisher = Stockholm News

|author = David Jonasson

|date = 23 May 2009

|accessdate = 8 June 2009

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|archivedate = 27 May 2009

}} This is especially important in the case of gases that humans cannot sense or when long-term exposure to slightly increased concentrations needs to be verified.{{Cite web

| title = Airborne Chemical Sensing with Mobile Robots

| publisher =

| author1 = Achim J. Lilienthal

| author2 = Amy Loutfi

| author3 = Tom Duckett

| date = October 1, 2006

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The distribution of gases is modelled using statistical methods.{{Cite web

| title = Building Gas Concentration Gridmaps with a Mobile Robot

| publisher =

| author1 = Achim J. Lilienthal

| author2 = Tom Duckett

| date = August 31, 2004

| accessdate =

| url = http://aass.oru.se/Research/Learning/publications/Lilienthal_Duckett_2004-RAS-Building_Gas_Concentration_Gridmaps_with_a_Mobile_Robot.html

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}}{{Cite web

| title = Learning Gas Distribution Models Using Sparse Gaussian Process Mixtures

| publisher =

| author1 = Cyrill Stachniss

| author2 = Christian Plagemann

| author3 = Achim J. Lilienthal

| date = April 2009

| accessdate =

| url = http://aass.oru.se/Research/Learning/publications/Stachniss_etal_2009-AuRo-Learning_Gas_Distribution_Models_using_Sparse_Gaussian_Process_Mixtures.html

| archive-date = 2010-10-24

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Two DustCart robots were deployed in the village of Peccioli, Tuscany, from June 15, 2010, to August 7, 2010, providing "door to door separate waste collection on demand". The system was found to be easy to use, providing satisfactory service and increasing recycling. Its main weaknesses were "slow service/traffic problems (and) low bin capacity", and also the existence of "barriers to entry", according to a report by Nicola Canelli presented during ICT 2010 Conference Session, held in Bruxelles, September 27, 2010.{{Cite web|url=http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/events/cf/ict2010/document.cfm?doc_id=14608|title=Shaping Europe's digital future | Shaping Europe's digital future|access-date=2014-06-02|archive-date=2019-10-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191016100259/https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/events/cf/ict2010/document.cfm?doc_id=14608|url-status=live}} As of November 10, 2017, the project seems to have been ended; still, the Dustbot homepage is online to this day, the last "news" update being apparently done in 2011. There is also a reference to the project in a presentation by Paolo Dario at the International Workshop on Autonomics and Legal Implications (Berlin, November 2, 2012).{{cite web |title=Autonomous Systems and Robot Companions |url=https://www.jura.uni-wuerzburg.de/fileadmin/_migrated/content_uploads/Autonomous_Systems_and_Robot_Companions_-_Dario_05.pdf |publisher=www.jura.uni-wuerzburg.de |access-date=2017-11-10 |archive-date=2022-02-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220214235042/https://www.jura.uni-wuerzburg.de/fileadmin/_migrated/content_uploads/Autonomous_Systems_and_Robot_Companions_-_Dario_05.pdf |url-status=live }}

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• [http://www.dustbot.org/ Dustbot Homepage] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090503122109/http://www.dustbot.org/ |date=2009-05-03 }}
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20110723142456/http://images.hardwareinfo.net/extcontent/messages_normal/00481012.jpg A picture of Dustbot]
• [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8072619.stm A video of the Dustbot]
• [https://www.academia.edu/29232098/The_Robot_DustCart/ The Robot DustCart (March 2011)]{{Dead link|date=August 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

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