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Ridgeback

About

About Ridgeback

Ridgeback is Clearpath Robotics' midsize omnidirectional indoor mobile platform for research and mobile manipulation. Its omni-drive allows lateral and rotational positioning in constrained spaces, while onboard computing, laser scanners and an inertial measurement unit provide a base for navigation and perception development.

Native ROS and Gazebo support connects the platform to research software, including MoveIt workflows when a manipulator is added. Ridgeback supplies the mobile base; arms, autonomy, payload fixtures and application safety are configured separately.

Capabilities

Source-backed capabilities

  • Navigation and obstacle avoidance

    Claimed - Clearpath presents Ridgeback for autonomous indoor navigation, obstacle avoidance, mapping and remote mobile-manipulation research in constrained environments.

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  • SLAM mapping

    Claimed - Clearpath presents Ridgeback for autonomous indoor navigation, obstacle avoidance, mapping and remote mobile-manipulation research in constrained environments.

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  • Whole-body loco-manipulation

    Claimed - Clearpath presents Ridgeback for autonomous indoor navigation, obstacle avoidance, mapping and remote mobile-manipulation research in constrained environments.

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  • Remote and shared control

    Claimed - Clearpath presents Ridgeback for autonomous indoor navigation, obstacle avoidance, mapping and remote mobile-manipulation research in constrained environments.

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Supply

Supply / Components

  • robotiq_2f_grippers_for_clearpath_mobile_manipulators

    Robotiq 2f Grippers For Clearpath Mobile Manipulators - End Effectors - Robotiq - Clearpath Robotics mobile manipulator configurations support Robotiq 2-finger grippers for object handling - source: clearpathrobotics.com

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  • Ridgeback

    Kuka Lbr Iiwa Arm For Clearpath Ridgeback Mobile Manipulation - End Effectors - KUKA - Clearpath offers an optional Ridgeback mobile-manipulation configuration using a KUKA LBR iiwa arm and Ewellix lift column - source: clearpathrobotics.com

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Research

  • Utilizing Vision-Language Models as Action Models for Intent Recognition and Assistance

    2025-08-14 - Research Publication - Human-robot collaboration requires robots to quickly infer user intent, provide transparent reasoning, and assist users in achieving their goals. Our recent work introduced GUIDER, our framework for inferring navigation and manipulation intents.

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  • No Minima, No Collisions: Combining Modulation and Control Barrier Function Strategies for Feasible Dynamic Collision Avoidance

    2025-02-20 - Research Publication - Control Barrier Function Quadratic Programs (CBF-QPs) have become a central tool for real-time safety-critical control due to their applicability to general control-affine systems and their ability to enforce constraints through optimization. Yet, they often generate trajectories with undesirable local minima that prevent convergence to goals.

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Resources

Media library

Official specifications, manuals, developer resources, exact-product imagery and verified video for the Clearpath Robotics Ridgeback indoor robot platform.

Context

Comparable Systems