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Scout Mini

About

About Scout Mini

Scout Mini is a compact four-wheel mobile base available with conventional wheels for skid-steer driving or mecanum wheels for omnidirectional movement. Independent suspension keeps the wheels in contact with uneven surfaces, while the low chassis provides a mounting area for sensors, compute and small manipulators. The platform is sized for laboratories, classrooms and light indoor deployments.

CAN communication and AgileX development interfaces allow users to connect the base to ROS, autonomous-navigation software and custom controllers. Standard mounting points support lidar, cameras and application hardware. Scout Mini is sold as a configurable UGV for education, perception research, mobile manipulation and prototype service robots.

Capabilities

Source-backed capabilities

  • Navigation and obstacle avoidance

    Research demonstration - 2025-09-21 - Experiments mount a Prophesee EVK4 HD event camera on an AgileX Scout Mini and report autonomous navigation across more than 3,000 meters of indoor and outdoor trajectories.

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  • Autonomous route navigation

    Research demonstration - Autonomously navigated more than 3,000 metres of indoor and outdoor routes in daytime and nighttime conditions. - environment: indoor and outdoor daytime and nighttime research routes

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  • Multi-terrain locomotion

    Claimed - Scout Mini is designed to traverse slopes and transition between indoor and outdoor surfaces. - environment: slopes and indoor-to-outdoor surface transitions

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  • Robotic inspection

    Research demonstration - 2025-11-18 - The paper demonstrates Safe-ROS on an AgileX Scout Mini performing autonomous inspection in a nuclear environment.

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Observed use

Exact-product configurations are shown without inferring supply, purchase, customer status, standard fit, deployment or partnership.

  • Singapore Polytechnic outdoor delivery robot

    2022-01-04 - Research Experiment - Embedded - Physical - Singapore Polytechnic built an outdoor autonomous delivery robot on an AgileX SCOUT MINI chassis.

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  • N2 Vision nitrogen-mapping robot

    2022-01-04 - Research Experiment - Embedded - Physical - Manchester Metropolitan University’s N2 Vision agricultural robot used an AgileX SCOUT MINI chassis.

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  • EVK4 HD

    Research Experiment - Mounted - Physical - QUT researchers mounted a forward-facing Prophesee EVK4 HD on an AgileX Scout Mini for indoor and outdoor visual teach-and-repeat navigation.

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Supply

Supply / Components

  • Scout Mini

    Jetson Nano For Scout Mini Development Kit - robotics_compute - NVIDIA - NVIDIA supplies jetson nano for scout mini development kit for AgileX Robotics Scout Mini - source: global.agilex.ai

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Research

  • Safe-ROS paper demonstrates safety-critical inspection on AgileX Scout Mini

    2025-11-18 - Research Publication - This paper covers Safe-ROS paper demonstrates safety-critical inspection on AgileX Scout Mini for Scout Mini in Robot learning.

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  • Adaptive Cost-Map-based Path Planning in Partially Unknown Environments with Movable Obstacles

    2025-10-17 - Research Publication - The authors present an adaptive, LiDAR and odometry-based path-planning framework that embeds this capability into the ROS2 Nav2 stack.

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  • Event-Based Visual Teach-and-Repeat via Fast Fourier-Domain Cross-Correlation

    2025-09-21 - Research Publication - A visual teach-and-repeat navigation method matches event-camera observations with recorded routes using Fourier-domain cross-correlation. Queensland University of Technology researchers tested a Prophesee EVK4 HD mounted on an AgileX Scout Mini across indoor and outdoor routes in daytime and nighttime conditions. The work includes a ROS implementation and recordings from the experiments.

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  • DVDP: An End-to-End Policy for Mobile Robot Visual Docking with RGB-D Perception

    2025-09-16 - Research Publication - To overcome the limitations of current vision-based methods, the authors propose an innovative end-to-end visual docking method named DVDP(direct visual docking policy).

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  • SimPRIVE paper validates virtual-environment interaction with AgileX Scout Mini

    2025-04-30 - Research Publication - The use of machine learning in cyber-physical systems has attracted the interest of both industry and academia.

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  • Určení bezpečnostního prostoru pro kooperaci člověka s robotem pomocí počítačového vidění a AI

    2025-01-01 - Research Publication - Disertační práce se zabývá návrhem a realizací systému pro určení bezpečnostních a komfortních zón při interakci člověka s mobilním robotem pomocí metod počítačového vidění a umělé inteligence. Cílem práce je zvýšit bezpečnost a přirozenost interakce mezi člověkem a robotem v dynamických prostředích, kde tradiční přístupy nejsou dostatečně adaptabilní. V práci je navržen vlastní proxemický model založený na poměru zlatého řezu, který rozděluje osobní prostor člověka na jemně odstupňované zóny, a zohledňuje relativní polohu, rychlost a směr pohybu osoby vůči robotu. Součástí řešení je detekce, sledování a klasifikace osob dle věku a pohlaví pomocí neuronových sítí, určení pózy člověka a výpočet individuálních zón pro každou detekovanou osobu. Pro účely klasifikace byl vytvořen vlastní dataset kombinující reálné a syntetické snímky. Celý systém byl implementován do aplikace na výpočetní je

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  • Enhancing Visual Place Recognition via Fast and Slow Adaptive Biasing in Event Cameras

    2024-03-25 - Research Publication - Their proposed feedback controllers result in superior performance when compared to the standard bias settings and prior feedback control methods.

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Resources

Media library

Official exact-product manual, supported developer software and first-party media for Scout Mini. Sibling AgileX platforms are excluded.

Timeline

  • AgileX launches ROS 2 EDU navigation kits on SCOUT MINI

    2022-04-11 - Product Launch - The kits combined ROS 2 Foxy with a SCOUT MINI mobile base. The Pro configuration included lidar, an inertial measurement unit and a depth camera. The software stack supported NAV 2, Gazebo 11, mapping and indoor navigation work.

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