Experiences with an interactive museum tour-guide robot

Burgard, Wolfram; Cremers, Armin B.; Fox, Dieter; Hähnel, Dirk; Lakemeyer, Gerhard; Schulz, Dirk; Steiner, Walter; Thrun, Sebastian

doi:10.1016/s0004-3702(99)00070-3

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“…Rhino [15] and Robox [16] are robots that work as tour-guides in museums. Both robots rely on an accurate metric representation of the environment and use limited dialogue to communicate with people.…”

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Conceptual spatial representations for indoor mobile robots

Zender

Mozos

Jensfelt

et al. 2008

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

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We present an approach for creating conceptual representations of human-made indoor environments using mobile robots. The concepts refer to spatial and functional properties of typical indoor environments. Following findings in cognitive psychology, our model is composed of layers representing maps at different levels of abstraction. The complete system is integrated in a mobile robot endowed with laser and vision sensors for place and object recognition. The system also incorporates a linguistic framework that actively supports the map acquisition process, and which is used for situated dialogue. Finally, we discuss the capabilities of the integrated system.

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confidence: 99%

Conceptual spatial representations for indoor mobile robots

Zender

Mozos

Jensfelt

et al. 2008

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

254

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“…Wheeled robots, for example, have already been deployed as museum tour guides or on large fairs [5], [6], [7], [8]. The main focus in these systems, however, was reliable, collisionfree navigation.…”

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The humanoid museum tour guide Robotinho

Faber

Bennewitz

Eppner

et al. 2009

RO-MAN 2009 - The 18th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication

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Abstract-Wheeled tour guide robots have already been deployed in various museums or fairs worldwide. A key requirement for successful tour guide robots is to interact with people and to entertain them. Most of the previous tour guide robots, however, focused more on the involved navigation task than on natural interaction with humans. Humanoid robots, on the other hand, offer a great potential for investigating intuitive, multimodal interaction between humans and machines. In this paper, we present our mobile full-body humanoid tour guide robot Robotinho. We provide mechanical and electrical details and cover perception, the integration of multiple modalities for interaction, navigation control, and system integration aspects. The multimodal interaction capabilities of Robotinho have been designed and enhanced according to the questionnaires filled out by the people who interacted with the robot at previous public demonstrations. We present experiences we have made during experiments in which untrained users interacted with the robot.

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“…A limited number of researchers have addressed the challenge of navigation in exhibitionlike environments such as museums [7,13,19,24,26]. Rhino [7] and Minerva [24] were both successfully deployed in a museum during 1 or 2 weeks, respectively. Their task was to give guided tours to the visitors.…”

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confidence: 99%