Autonomous Mobile Robot Boxie
Marvelmind Boxie is an autonomous mobile robot designed for smart warehousing, industrial applications, research, and education.
Typical use cases:
- Autonomous delivery of goods or baskets with goods/tools/inventory in warehouses, assembly plants (expensive gauges and similar), chemical plants (samples, etc.)
- Autonomous (daily, nightly, hourly, etc.) inspection with optional cameras and additional measurement devices
Demos:
Marvelmind Boxie – Teaser (15 sec)
Marvelmind Boxie – Detailed Review
Key specs and features:
- Fully autonomous delivery from point A to point B (C, D, E, etc.) indoors with a single button click or via a remote one-click command
- Up to 10 kg payload with multiple optional mounted equipment starting from basic baskets to arms with grippers
- Automatic LIDAR-based and 3D imaging obstacle detection and avoidance for safety (1D LIDARs and Intel RealSense)
- Full remote control & monitoring by a dispatcher or user
- Long battery lifetime: up to 16h drive with internal batteries. Optional external batteries of up to 10kg
- Fast charging: ≤2h with optional fast charger and <6h with default charger. Both – for Boxie-Base configuration
- Own weight: 4.5kg (depending on configuration)
- Onboard display for arbitrary path setting (optional)
- Additional internal power converters to power user’s equipment (displays, arms, cameras, etc.) (optional)
- Customized reporting and analytics (optional)
- White labeling variant (optional)
- Further customization (optional)
No additional assembly is required. Ready to drive out of the box.
Regular lead time is 4 weeks. When available in stock the lead time is <1 week.
Technical Details
Advanced Sensor Fusion For Localization and Navigation:
- Indoor “GPS” in the Paired Beacons configuration for Location & Direction + Intel RealSense + Odometer + IMU
Obstacle Detection and Avoidance:
- 12 x LIDARs 1D
- Intel RealSense 3D LIDAR
- 2 x Sonars
- Current sensing
Sensors:
- Marvelmind Indoor “GPS”
- 12 x 1D LIDARs
- Intel Realsense (3D stereo + 3D LIDAR)
- Up-facing camera
- Several IMUs
- Odometer for each wheel
- Marvelmind sonars
- Current sensing
- Magnetometer/compass from the Android phone
- Regular GPS from the Android phone
Processors:
- Raspberry Pi Zero W with Linux supported and MicroSD for multiple Gb
- Several Marvelmind boards for very fast real real-time
- 2 x Marvelmind Super-Beacons for Indoor “GPS” and sonar
APIs:
- API is available on the low level (Odometer board, etc.) and on the high level – Raspberry, ROS, Android
- The majority of internal functions and sensory information are available and can be made available through the APIs
Chassis and Kinematics:
- Very rigid – 2mm steel
- Up to 10kg payload
- Two-wheel drive with front and back castor wheels. Capable to turn around on one point
- There are mounting holes for most common boards:
– Several flavors of Raspberry Pi
– Jetson Nano
– Arduino
– 30×30 pattern 3mm holes
Battery and Chargers:
- 12V-battery with different internal capacities from 40Wh to 100Wh
- Default 1A charger and optional 5A (10A) fast charger
- Optional external batteries
- Current and voltage sensing (also available via API)
External Interfaces:
- 6 x USB
- 40pins of Pi Zero – standard interface
- 40 pins from our Odometer board:
– UART
– SPI
– I2C
– USB
– +12V & 1A and +5V & 1A to power your external devices
– GND switch - HDMI (Raspberry Pi connected)
- Stereo sound
- Buzzer
- LED (top and 2 x front) for interfacing, debugging, and lighting
- 2 x programmable Functional Buttons and a Reset button
Wireless Connectivity:
- Marvelmind radio in the license-free band (868 or 915MHz)
- WiFi from Raspberry Pi and the Android phone
- Bluetooth from Raspberry Pi and the Android phone
- 2G/3G/LTE from the Android phone
Optical Sensors:
- RealSense – 3D stereo obstacles and positioning
- RealSense – 3D LIDAR for obstacles
- Up-facing camera connected with Pi
- Up facing camera of the Android phone
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