MINERVA: a second-generation museum tour-guide robot

Author

Thrun, Sebastian ; Bennewitz, Maren ; Burgard, Wolfram ; Cremers, Armin B. ; Dellaert, Frank ; Fox, Dieter ; Hähnel, Dirk ; Rosenberg, Charles ; Roy, Nicholas ; Schulte, J. ; Schulz, Dirk

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci., Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Volume

3

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

1999

Abstract

This paper describes an interactive tour-guide robot, which was successfully exhibited in a Smithsonian museum. During its two weeks of operation, the robot interacted with thousands of people, traversing more than 44 km at speeds of up to 163 cm/sec. Our approach specifically addresses issues such as safe navigation in unmodified and dynamic environments, and short-term human-robot interaction. It uses learning pervasively at all levels of the software architecture

Keywords

humanities; interactive systems; mobile robots; 163 cm/s; MINERVA; Smithsonian museum; dynamic environments; interactive tour-guide robot; safe navigation; second-generation museum tour-guide robot; short-term human-robot interaction; Cameras; Human robot interaction; Image sensors; Internet; Navigation; Orbital robotics; Path planning; Robot control; Robot sensing systems; Software architecture;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics and Automation, 1999. Proceedings. 1999 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Detroit, MI

ISSN

1050-4729

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5180-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROBOT.1999.770401

Filename

770401