DocumentCode
2425194
Title
Improving the expressiveness of mobile robots
Author
Mayor, L. ; Jensen, B. ; Lorotte, A. ; Siegwart, R.
Author_Institution
Autonomous Syst. Lab., Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technol., Lausanne, Switzerland
fYear
2002
fDate
2002
Firstpage
325
Lastpage
330
Abstract
RoboX is a tour guide robot, designed to interact with visitors at Expo02, the Swiss National Exhibition. During five months, ten RoboXs will be in contact with about 4500 visitors per day. These peoples are not trained to autonomous robots and will be guided by the robots throughout an exhibition about robotics. The work exposed here was dedicated to make RoboX lifelike and credible in implementing an expression generator This generator uses the robot capacities in order to best express its internal state which is influenced by its sensor entries and the scenario of the guided tour To validate our approach, a short experiment was set UP in order to present results that include appreciations of people not used to robots.
Keywords
mobile robots; path planning; Expo02; RoboX; autonomous robots; mobile robots; sensor entries; tour guide robot; Collaborative work; Handicapped aids; Human robot interaction; Mobile robots; Orbital robotics; Psychology; Robot sensing systems; Speech enhancement; Speech synthesis; Testing;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2002. Proceedings. 11th IEEE International Workshop on
Print_ISBN
0-7803-7545-9
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ROMAN.2002.1045643
Filename
1045643
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