An industrial application of behavior-oriented robotics

Author

Birk, Andreas ; Kenn, Holger

Author_Institution

Artificial Intelligence Lab., Vrije Univ., Brussels, Belgium

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

749

Abstract

The so-called RoboGuard is a mobile security device which is tightly integrated into the existing surveillance framework developed and marketed by Quadrox, a Belgian SME. RoboGuards are semi-autonomous mobile robots providing video streams via wireless Intranets to existing watchguard systems, supplemented by various basic and optional behaviors. RoboGuards fill several market-niches. Especially, they are a serious alternative to the standard approach of using closed circuit television for surveillance. Low production cost, user friendliness, and support for easy add-on functionalities were important design targets, which were achieved by following the AI paradigm of behavior-oriented robotics.

Keywords

mobile robots; motion control; path planning; security; surveillance; video signal processing; RoboGuard; behavior-oriented robotics; mobile security device; semi-autonomous mobile robots; video streams; watchguard systems; wireless Intranets; Circuits; Communication system security; Cost function; Human computer interaction; Mobile robots; Production; Service robots; Streaming media; Surveillance; TV;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics and Automation, 2001. Proceedings 2001 ICRA. IEEE International Conference on

ISSN

1050-4729

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6576-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROBOT.2001.932640

Filename

932640