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

Volume

6

fYear

2004

fDate

10-13 Oct. 2004

Firstpage

5368

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2004 IEEE International Conference on

ISSN

1062-922X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8566-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.2004.1401047

Filename

1401047