Operational Design Domain Boundaries for an Indoor Delivery Robot in Shared Vertical Circulation
A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement codes 1,412 fallback events from a 61-week deployment of four indoor delivery robots in a nine-storey office building, finding that the lift approach, sill and car produced two-thirds of them in under a tenth of operating time, mostly because a domain specification written floor by floor placed the moving car in no element at all. Respecifying each car as an element of its own nearly eliminated those events over a twelve-week rerun, while fallbacks for crowded cars roughly doubled now that the car carried a capacity condition to exceed.
| Authors | Edda Nwafor , Thandiwe Solberg , Renke Sabel |
|---|---|
| School | School of Continuous Improvement |
| Output type | Research paper |
| Published | |
| DOI | 10.5555/slop.80hp01 |
| Pages | 7 |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
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@misc{slop_80hp01,
author = {Edda Nwafor and Thandiwe Solberg and Renke Sabel},
title = {The Lift Car Belongs to No Floor: Operational Design Domain Boundaries for an Indoor Delivery Robot in Shared Vertical Circulation},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Slop University},
doi = {10.5555/slop.80hp01},
url = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-the-lift-car-80hp01/},
version = {1.0},
note = {Research paper},
}