InOrbit has launched Time Capsule to provide engineering and operations staff greater insights into their robot fleets. The latest upgrade to the SaaS platform captures critical data needed to understand robot autonomy exceptions, giving users the ability to “turn back time” to understand where the failures occurred and enabling them to improve productivity.
No robot is perfect. However, it is often very difficult to understand the circumstances that lead to robot errors, whether it is a failure to perform a task efficiently, choose an appropriate route, or navigate in a difficult space. By capturing the data and presenting it in an integrated dashboard, Time Capsule gives roboticists an interactive visualization for root cause analysis. This helps provide users a greater understanding of performance.
InOrbit users can now arrange and display robot data for various roles, based on the context needed to get their job done. For instance, an executive can access key performance indicators about the overall fleet performance. Meanwhile, a roboticist can configure the right data sources and visualizations, and a robot operator can see detailed robot status. Each company or user can customize their views based on the data that they need.
Another key area of improvement is the ability to get situational awareness about a robot. This includes understanding a robot’s position on a map, seeing through its multiple cameras, visualizing other sensor data such as a point cloud generated by LIDAR, and ultimately tracking the robot’s movement. Should the robot get mislocalized, intuitive tools can quickly fix the problem. And if the robot needs a gentle nudge to go back to operating autonomously, InOrbit provides the tools to set it on the right path.
