PLAYFUL
AGENTS

TOWARD PLAYFUL MACHINES AND CURIOUS AGENTS
HRI RESEARCH
BY MILOS ROGLIC

IG | X
SELF-DRIVING FURNITURE
CLIENT  
ROLE
TOOLS
YEAR
Dubai Future Labs, Dubai Future Foundation
Pathfinding, simulation, SLAM, LiDAR calibration
ROS, Unity, OpenCV  
2020



ABOUT




Custom-made robotic platform designed to enable autonomous movement of furniture, allowing for their automatic configuration within a space.

I was part of a multidisciplinary team of roboticists, electrical and mechanical engineers, with the goal to develop self-driving furniture. My responsibilities included developing pathfinding, obstacle detection and avoidance algorithms, and calibrating onboard LiDAR sensors for furniture arrangement. Additionally, I developed a Unity mobile app for controlling individual robots and their automatic arrangement based on a predefined layout. To enhance debugging capabilities, I also created a simulation tool.

Testing SLAM

PROCESS


Simulation of pathfinding
Custom made LiDAR calibration
Top-down LiDAR view of 3 people walking