Ready for robots? Assessment of autonomous delivery robot operative accessibility in German cities
Unlike autonomous car applications, the operational area of urban service autonomous robots like autonomous delivery robots (ADRs) is not clearly defined at the moment. Due to large variations in the different robot designs, specific local infrastructure and regulation, assessing the feasibility of...
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| author | Martin Plank Clément Lemardelé Tom Assmann Sebastian Zug |
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| description | Unlike autonomous car applications, the operational area of urban service autonomous robots like autonomous delivery robots (ADRs) is not clearly defined at the moment. Due to large variations in the different robot designs, specific local infrastructure and regulation, assessing the feasibility of different operational scenarios is difficult. This paper presents a prototype evaluation methodology based on Open Street Map data for the assessment of ADR deployments considering one-to-many delivery schemes. Four different robot configurations and potential operational specifications are modeled and evaluated in a sample of German cities. The bandwidth of considered robot types ranges from large ADRs operating on roadways down to small size systems operating on sidewalks. The performance of the first category is limited by the reduced accessibility in areas with higher traffic. On the contrary, small ADRs present a higher detour time but increased accessibility. The evaluated operational scenarios show very diverse performance depending on the considered metrics and cities. For all the metrics considered in the paper, sidewalk ADRs show poor performance when compared to other potential ADR deployments. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-73348b418292453280dadf5e306aa90c2022-12-22T04:20:11ZengElsevierJournal of Urban Mobility2667-09172022-12-012100036Ready for robots? Assessment of autonomous delivery robot operative accessibility in German citiesMartin Plank0Clément Lemardelé1Tom Assmann2Sebastian Zug3Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Technische Universitdt Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg 09599, Germany; Corresponding author.Civil Engineering School of Barcelona, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – Barcelona TECH, C. Jordi Girona 1-3, Building B1, North Campus, 08034 Barcelona, SpainOtto-von-Guericke Universitilt Magdeburg, Institute of Logistics and Material Handling System, Magdeburg, GermanyFaculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Technische Universitdt Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg 09599, GermanyUnlike autonomous car applications, the operational area of urban service autonomous robots like autonomous delivery robots (ADRs) is not clearly defined at the moment. Due to large variations in the different robot designs, specific local infrastructure and regulation, assessing the feasibility of different operational scenarios is difficult. This paper presents a prototype evaluation methodology based on Open Street Map data for the assessment of ADR deployments considering one-to-many delivery schemes. Four different robot configurations and potential operational specifications are modeled and evaluated in a sample of German cities. The bandwidth of considered robot types ranges from large ADRs operating on roadways down to small size systems operating on sidewalks. The performance of the first category is limited by the reduced accessibility in areas with higher traffic. On the contrary, small ADRs present a higher detour time but increased accessibility. The evaluated operational scenarios show very diverse performance depending on the considered metrics and cities. For all the metrics considered in the paper, sidewalk ADRs show poor performance when compared to other potential ADR deployments.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266709172200024300001111 |
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| title | Ready for robots? Assessment of autonomous delivery robot operative accessibility in German cities |
| title_full | Ready for robots? Assessment of autonomous delivery robot operative accessibility in German cities |
| title_fullStr | Ready for robots? Assessment of autonomous delivery robot operative accessibility in German cities |
| title_full_unstemmed | Ready for robots? Assessment of autonomous delivery robot operative accessibility in German cities |
| title_short | Ready for robots? Assessment of autonomous delivery robot operative accessibility in German cities |
| title_sort | ready for robots assessment of autonomous delivery robot operative accessibility in german cities |
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| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667091722000243 |
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