Title :
Conception and realization of a multi-sensory interactive mobile office guide
Author :
Martin, C. ; Böhme, H.J. ; Gross, H.-M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Neuroinformatics, Ilmenau Tech. Univ., Germany
Abstract :
This paper describes the conception and realization of a multi-sensory interactive mobile office guide. We designed a mobile robot based on a modified pioneer-2 robot, which is able to welcome visitors in our department and guide them to the desired staff member. The main components of the system are a vision based multi-person-tracker and the existing navigation toolkit CARMEN. Furthermore, the robot provides a bidirectional video conference system and a speech synthesis system. Experimental results show, that the implemented multi-person-tracker is accurately able to track an unknown number of persons in real-time and guide them to the respective people, while keeping an eye on the interaction partner.
Keywords :
interactive systems; mobile robots; office environment; robot vision; sensor fusion; speech synthesis; CARMEN; bidirectional video conference system; modified pioneer-2 robot; multisensory interactive mobile office guide; speech synthesis system; vision based multi-person-tracker; Collision avoidance; Computer vision; Human robot interaction; Image processing; Machine vision; Mobile robots; Robot vision systems; Speech synthesis; Teleworking; Videoconference;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2004 IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8566-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICSMC.2004.1401047
