Robot–City Interaction: Mapping the Research Landscape—A Survey of the Interactions Between Robots and Modern Cities

The goal of this work is to describe how robots interact with complex city environments, and to identify the main characteristics of an emerging field that we call Robot–City Interaction (RCI). Given the central role recently gained by modern cities as use cases for the deployment of advanced techno...

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Published inInternational journal of social robotics Vol. 12; no. 2; pp. 299 - 324
Main Authors Tiddi, Ilaria, Bastianelli, Emanuele, Daga, Enrico, d’Aquin, Mathieu, Motta, Enrico
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.05.2020
Springer Nature B.V
Springer
Subjects
Artificial Intelligence
Cities
Computer Science
Control
Engineering
Mapping
Mechatronics
Robotics
Robots
Survey
Web
Smart cities
City ecosystems
Robot–City interaction
Robots
Robot-City interaction
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Summary:The goal of this work is to describe how robots interact with complex city environments, and to identify the main characteristics of an emerging field that we call Robot–City Interaction (RCI). Given the central role recently gained by modern cities as use cases for the deployment of advanced technologies, and the advancements achieved in the robotics field in recent years, we assume that there is an increasing interest both in integrating robots in urban ecosystems, and in studying how they can interact and benefit from each others. Therefore, our challenge becomes to verify the emergence of such area, to assess its current state and to identify the main characteristics, core themes and research challenges associated with it. This is achieved by reviewing a preliminary body of work contributing to this area, which we classify and analyze according to an analytical framework including a set of key dimensions for the area of RCI. Such review not only serves as a preliminary state-of-the-art in the area, but also allows us to identify the main characteristics of RCI and its research landscape.
ISSN:1875-4791
1875-4805
DOI:10.1007/s12369-019-00534-x