Testing a Fully Autonomous Robotic Salesman in Real Scenarios

Adrian Romero-Garces, Luis Vicente Calderita, Jesus Martinez-Gomez, Juan Pedro Bandera, Rebeca Marfil, Luis J. Manso, Antonio Bandera, Pablo Bustos

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Abstract

Over the past decades, the number of robots deployed in museums, trade shows and exhibitions have grown steadily. This new application domain has become a key research topic in the robotics community. Therefore, new robots are designed to interact with people in these domains, using natural and intuitive channels. Visual perception and speech processing have to be considered for these robots, as they should be able to detect people in their environment, recognize their degree of accessibility and engage them in social conversations. They also need to safely navigate around dynamic, uncontrolled environments. They must be equipped with planning and learning components, that allow them to adapt to different scenarios. Finally, they must attract the attention of the people, be kind and safe to interact with. In this paper, we describe our experience with Gualzru, a salesman robot endowed with the cognitive architecture RoboCog. This architecture synchronizes all previous processes in a social robot, using a common inner representation as the core of the system. The robot has been tested in crowded, public daily life environments, where it interacted with people that had never seen it before nor had a clue about its functionality. Experimental results presented in this paper demonstrate the capabilities of the robot and its limitations in these real scenarios, and define future improvement actions.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2015 IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions
PublisherIEEE
ISBN (Print)978-1-4673-6991-6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 7 May 2015
Event2015 IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions - Vila Real, Portugal
Duration: 8 Apr 201510 Apr 2015

Conference

Conference2015 IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions
Country/TerritoryPortugal
CityVila Real
Period8/04/1510/04/15

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