Conception and realization of a multi-sensory interactive mobile office guide

• Published in: 2004 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37583) Vol. 6; pp. 5368 - 5373 vol.6
• Main Authors: Martin, C., Bohme, H.J., Gross, H.M.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: Piscataway NJ IEEE 2004
• Subjects: Applied sciences; Artificial intelligence; Collision avoidance; Computer science; control theory; systems; Computer vision; Control theory. Systems; Exact sciences and technology; Human robot interaction; Image processing; Machine vision; Mobile robots; Pattern recognition. Digital image processing. Computational geometry; Robot vision systems; Robotics; Speech synthesis; Teleworking; Videoconference; Human; Computer vision; Software tool; Navigation; Moving robot; Teleconference; Speech synthesis; Real time; Robotics
• ISBN: 0780385667; 9780780385665
• ISSN: 1062-922X; 2577-1655
• DOI: 10.1109/ICSMC.2004.1401047

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.