Sunday, May 15, 2022

AMR-One. 00 Introduction to the AMR-One Project

This post is the introduction to the AMR-One project series, a set of posts and videos on how to plan, manage and execute a technical project as well as on how to technically develop an autonomous robot.

The AMR-One project objective is to develop a prototype of an autonomous mobile robot for the industry, as a personal project, with some basic characteristics:

  • Rotational base with damped traction system
  • Safety system
  • Pinhook system to hook trolleys from the bottom and carry them.
  • Two navigation modes:
    • Magnetic band guidance with RFID tags control
    • SLAM based navigation using ROS
  • Cloud monitoring (over AWS)


High, this is Alejandro Alonso and I will be here, through this interesting trip, where we will explore the details of this fascinating project!

During the following posts I will cover:

  • The product strategy, roadmap, and product requirements (basic to have good focus and scope definition).
  • The project management aspects, including
    • The project management plan (rules on how to manage the project)
    • Work breakdown structure (tool to identify the tasks)
    • Planning from an agile perspective, including the Gantt and dependency graph as well as backlog and sprints plan
    • Risk management, 
    • Cost and time control
    • Change management control, to approach correctly any change in the project
  • The technical design, covers:
    • The architecture of the system, both hardware, and software
    • Electrical design
    • Mechanical design
    • Software design
  • The manufacturing process, using modular structures and a few 3D printed parts

See the following introductory video.


I hope you enjoy this trip with me. Let’s make robots!

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