OpenBot-Fleet: A System for Collective Learning with Real Robots

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Main Authors: Müller, Matthias, Brahmbhatt, Samarth, Deka, Ankur, Leboutet, Quentin, Hafner, David, Koltun, Vladlen
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Published: 2024
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author Müller, Matthias
Brahmbhatt, Samarth
Deka, Ankur
Leboutet, Quentin
Hafner, David
Koltun, Vladlen
author_facet Müller, Matthias
Brahmbhatt, Samarth
Deka, Ankur
Leboutet, Quentin
Hafner, David
Koltun, Vladlen
contents We introduce OpenBot-Fleet, a comprehensive open-source cloud robotics system for navigation. OpenBot-Fleet uses smartphones for sensing, local compute and communication, Google Firebase for secure cloud storage and off-board compute, and a robust yet low-cost wheeled robot toact in real-world environments. The robots collect task data and upload it to the cloud where navigation policies can be learned either offline or online and can then be sent back to the robot fleet. In our experiments we distribute 72 robots to a crowd of workers who operate them in homes, and show that OpenBot-Fleet can learn robust navigation policies that generalize to unseen homes with >80% success rate. OpenBot-Fleet represents a significant step forward in cloud robotics, making it possible to deploy large continually learning robot fleets in a cost-effective and scalable manner. All materials can be found at https://www.openbot.org. A video is available at https://youtu.be/wiv2oaDgDi8
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spellingShingle OpenBot-Fleet: A System for Collective Learning with Real Robots
Müller, Matthias
Brahmbhatt, Samarth
Deka, Ankur
Leboutet, Quentin
Hafner, David
Koltun, Vladlen
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
We introduce OpenBot-Fleet, a comprehensive open-source cloud robotics system for navigation. OpenBot-Fleet uses smartphones for sensing, local compute and communication, Google Firebase for secure cloud storage and off-board compute, and a robust yet low-cost wheeled robot toact in real-world environments. The robots collect task data and upload it to the cloud where navigation policies can be learned either offline or online and can then be sent back to the robot fleet. In our experiments we distribute 72 robots to a crowd of workers who operate them in homes, and show that OpenBot-Fleet can learn robust navigation policies that generalize to unseen homes with >80% success rate. OpenBot-Fleet represents a significant step forward in cloud robotics, making it possible to deploy large continually learning robot fleets in a cost-effective and scalable manner. All materials can be found at https://www.openbot.org. A video is available at https://youtu.be/wiv2oaDgDi8
title OpenBot-Fleet: A System for Collective Learning with Real Robots
topic Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.07515