MYRABot+: A feasible robotic system for interaction challenges

Rico, Francisco Martín; Lera, Francisco Javier Rodríguez; Olivera, Vicente Matellán

doi:10.1109/icarsc.2014.6849798

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“…BICA shows the outcome of previous efforts to build an ethological inspired architecture based on schemas names JDE [14]. It has evolved both in the cognitive aspect, incorporating symbolic planning to the original behavior based approach, but also in the software aspect, evolving from a proprietary framework to be implemented on ROS middleware [15]. BICA evolution also reflects the lessons learned obtained from the competitions where it has been evaluated [16], mainly from RoboCup and the RoCKIn competitions.…”

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Evolution of a Cognitive Architecture for Social Robots: Integrating Behaviors and Symbolic Knowledge

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This paper presents the evolution of a robotic architecture intended for controlling autonomous social robots. The first instance of this architecture was originally designed according to behavior-based principles. The building blocks of this architecture were behaviors designed as a finite state machine and organized in an ethological inspired way. However, the need of managing explicit symbolic knowledge in human–robot interaction required the integration of planning capabilities into the architecture and a symbolic representation of the environment and the internal state of the robot. A major contribution of this paper is the description of the working memory that integrates these two approaches. This working memory has been implemented as a distributed graph. Another contribution is the use of behavior trees instead of state machine for implementing the behavior-based part of the architecture. This late version of the architecture has been tested in robotic competitions (RoboCup or European Robotics League, among others), whose performance is also discussed in this paper.

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Section: Evolution Of the Proposed Architecturementioning

confidence: 93%

Evolution of a Cognitive Architecture for Social Robots: Integrating Behaviors and Symbolic Knowledge

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“…Also, with the aim of helping elderly people through telepresence, a low-cost platform capable of providing augmented reality for pill dose management was developed in [9]. In [10], an approach based on the Dynamical System Approach for obstacle avoidance of a Smart Walker device to help navigation of elderly people is presented.…”

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A Personal Robot as an Improvement to the Customers’ In- Store Experience

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Duarte²,

Pereira³

et al. 2018

Service Robots

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Robotics is a growing industry with applications in numerous markets, including retail, transportation, manufacturing, and even as personal assistants. Consumers have evolved to expect more from the buying experience, and retailers are looking at technology to keep consumers engaged. In today's highly competitive business climate, being able to attract, serve, and satisfy more customers is a key to success. It is our belief that smart robots will play a significant role in physical retail in the future. One successful example is wGO, 1 a robotic shopping assistant developed by Follow Inspiration. The wGO is an autonomous and self-driven shopping cart, designed to follow people with reduced mobility (the elderly, people in wheelchair, pregnant women, those with temporary reduced mobility, etc.) in commercial environments. With the Retail Robot, the user can control the shopping cart without the need to push it. This brings numerous advantages and a higher level of comfort since the user does not need to worry about carrying the groceries or pushing the shopping cart. The wGO operates under a vision-guided approach based on user-following with no need for any external device. Its integrated architecture of control, navigation, perception, planning, and awareness is designed to enable the robot to successfully perform personal assistance, while the user is shopping. Keywords: robotics, vision, retail, reduced mobility1 The robot is currently patent pending.

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