Boston Acoustics SPOT, User Manual

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LIMITATIONS
The following conditions can hamper the robot’s obstacle detection system, which may result in
collisions:
Demo: Obstacle
avoidance
1. Place sample obstacle
into demonstration
area. Sample should
be at least 50 cm
on each side, with a
minimum height of
50 cm, and resting on
the ground. Never use
people as obstacles!
2. Walk Spot
towards the obstacle.
Spot should avoid
colliding with it.
NOTE: When walking Spot through soft objects like curtains, tall grass, or brush, it may be useful to
turn off obstacle avoidance. However, Spot will now collide with all obstacles. It is up to the opera-
tor to avoid obstacles in this mode.
< 3 cm in thickness. For example, ladders and tripods.
Spot’s perception system has difficulty with high contrast environments
such as very black materials against very bright backgrounds.
Spot cannot see transparent materials and may crash into glass doors
and windows.
Spot may step on paint cans, buckets, and other objects shorter than 30 cm
even with obstacle avoidance enabled.
Spot cannot predict trajectories of moving objects. Do not operate
Spot around moving objects such as vehicles, children, or pets.
Do not walk Spot under ropes, tables, scaffolds, or low-hanging but
elevated obstacles. These can collide with Spot or its payloads.
Spot requires sufficient lighting to function properly. Even in well-lit
environments, shadowy areas may be too dark for Spot to detect obstacles.
Very thin
obstacles
High contrast
environments
Clear materials
Short objects
Moving objects
Elevated
obstacles
Inadequate
lighting