Yesterday, March 11, 2022, the editors of a managed to attend a closed press show of the robotic dogs of the State Inspectorate for Real Estate. Representatives of the regulatory authority spoke about the features of the devices and plans, and the developers shared technical details. For the first time, robots were announced at the end of December last year.
Two robotic dogs from the Chinese company Unitree Robotics are currently in service. Vladislav Ovchinsky, head of the State Inspectorate for Real Estate in Moscow, said that the devices would patrol the city and detect violations: non-compliance with the boundaries of the installation of summer cafe verandas or facts of illegal construction. The robots are equipped with Full HD cameras, lidars and laser measuring devices. All this will help the machines measure buildings and compare readings with the database.
The form factor of the devices was not chosen by chance, the four-legged design allows you to overcome curbs, steps and move over bumps in an urban environment. Wheeled platforms are limited in this regard and can only move on a flat surface. In addition, representatives of the State Inspectorate recalled that they use drones in their work, but in Moscow there areas with a no-fly zone, in these cases, the responsibility for checking will fall on robot dogs.
From the factory, the devices come with minimal software that allows the robot to move. The Linux Ubuntu distribution is installed as the operating system, and the multimedia control panels are based on Android. Communication with the robot is maintained using wireless technology.
Devices are completely open for modifications and adding modules for various scenarios. The developers of the State Inspectorate use the open library ROS (Robot Operating System) in their work. The main modules are written in C++, and scripts for image processing, route building and data analysis are written in Python. For software development, graduates of Russian technical universities and specialists from Yandex, who are engaged in proprietary robots-couriers, are involved.
Deputy Head of the State Inspectorate for Real Estate Daria Stepanova spoke about the future of robots. Now both devices are at the stage of testing and debugging. Already at the beginning of the summer season, it is planned to send robots to perform official tasks. Mostly cars will explore the region of the Central Administrative District of the city of Moscow. As technology develops, the State Inspectorate will expand the fleet of devices.
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