CédricHollande

Robotics

LiBot - SICK $10K Challenge

Team prototype of a library service robot, built for the SICK $10K Challenge. The demo showed an autonomous navigation + perception stack scoped to a single robot: shelf scanning, book search, mocked-up check-in/out, an…

LiBot - SICK $10K Challenge

Team prototype of a library service robot, built for the SICK $10K Challenge. The demo showed an autonomous navigation + perception stack scoped to a single robot: shelf scanning, book search, mocked-up check-in/out, and patron interaction. ROS 2 end-to-end on a reverse-engineered Berkshire Grey FlexBot mobile base.

  • SICK PicoScan 150 LiDAR + IMU for SLAM, obstacle avoidance, and safe human-shared operation
  • Reflective-marker localization using LiDAR intensity returns for shelf-level precision
  • OCR-based shelf scanning for inventory verification
  • Touchscreen UI + ChatGPT Voice API for catalog search, guidance, and check-in/out flows
  • Reverse-engineered Berkshire Grey FlexBot mobile base

Repo: https://github.com/virmani11kartik/flex_bot/tree/jetson

UPenn_LiBot_SICK_10K_Challenge_Report.pdf

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libot2.mp4