HelsingBotica - Prestudy on Data Sharing for Improved Micromobility and Delivery Robots in the City of Helsingborg

Purpose and goal:

The project is a feasibility study on data sharing for improved micromobility and a pilot study with an autonomous delivery robot in Helsingborg. It has explored data sharing for keyways and walkways, identified obstacles from imagery, and created a new machine-readable policy for delivery robots with geographic and operating time constraints. In addition, use cases for autonomous delivery robots were developed in suburbs to reduce traffic and increase efficiency, with great potential to reduce the number of delivery vehicles.

Expected results and effects:

The result is a concept called "Community Robots”, which takes into account a lot of research on small vehicles and the last kilometer. It combines the logistical advantages of delivery cabinets with less land use and no passenger car journeys to the cabinets. About 20-30% of the cargo is bulky and is taken by vans, the rest by robots.

The customer receives notification of packages in the area and can follow the robot´s position on the mobile. Robots can increase profitability and reduce emissions compared to electric trucks; and where 1-2 electric trucks can be replaced by 6-8 smaller robots Approach and implementation:

The project has relied on several different methods and activities: exploratory development of relevant technology platforms, development of content and form for a digital policy, internal workshops as an arena to explore key issues, as well as public events engaging external stakeholders. Also research around the last kilometer and delivery robots case studies, as well as meetings with logistics companies to adjust the ideas has been important.

Weekly internal meetings ensured coordination. These efforts helped the project achieve its objective