W. Burgard, P. Trahanias, D. Hähnel, M. Moors, D. Schulz, H. Baltzakis, and A. Argyros
TOURBOT and WebFAIR: Web-Operated Mobile Robots for Tele-Presence in
Populated Exhibitions.
In Proc. of the IROS 02 Workshop on Robots in Exhibitions,
2002.
Abstract
The current paper presents techniques that facilitate mobile
robots to be deployed as interactive agents in populated
environments, such as museum exhibitions or trade shows. The
mobile robots can be tele-operated over the Internet and this way
provide remote access to distant users. Throughout this paper we
describe several key techniques that have been developed in the
relevant projects. They include robust mapping and localization,
people-tracking and advanced visualizations for Web users. The
developed robotic systems have been installed and operated in the
premises of various sites. Use of the above techniques, as well as
appropriate authoring tools, has resulted in drastic reduction in
the installation times. Additionally, the systems were thoroughly
tested and validated in real-world conditions. Such demonstrations
ascertain the functionality and reliability of our methods and
provide evidence as of the operation of the complete systems.
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Bibtex
@InProceedings{burgard02Tourbot,
author = {Burgard, W. and Trahanias, P. and H{\"a}hnel, D. and Moors, M. and Schulz, D. and Baltzakis, H. and Argyros A.},
title = {TOURBOT and WebFAIR: Web-Operated Mobile Robots for Tele-Presence in
Populated Exhibitions},
booktitle = {Proc.~of the IROS 02 Workshop on Robots in Exhibitions},
year = {2002}
}