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MINERVA: a second-generation museum tour-guide robot

Proceedings 1999 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (Cat. No.99CH36288C), 2003
This paper describes an interactive tour-guide robot, which was successfully exhibited in a Smithsonian museum. During its two weeks of operation, the robot interacted with thousands of people, traversing more than 44 km at speeds of up to 163 cm/sec.
S. Thrun, M. Bennewitz, W. Burgard, A.B. Cremers, F. Dellaert, D. Fox, D. Hahnel, C. Rosenberg, N. Roy, J. Schulte, D. Schulz   +10 more
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An RFID based autonomous indoor tour guide robot

2012 IEEE 55th International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), 2012
This paper describes a radio frequency identification (RFID) and sonar-guided tour guide robot, CATE (Central's Automated Tour Experience). The portable terminal unit is an embedded system equipped with an RFID reader for localization, and sonar and IR sensors for obstacle detection and avoidance. CATE can guide the visitor through a predefined tour of
Kumar Yelamarthi, Stephen Sherbrook, Jonathan Beckwith, Matt Williams, Robert Lefief   +4 more
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The Museum Tour-Guide Robot RHINO

1999
This paper describes the software architecture of the autonomous mobile tour-guide robot RHINO which guided hundreds of visitors during a six-day deployment period through the exhibition of the “Deutsches Museum Bonn” and interacted with them in different ways.
Burgard, Wolfram, Cremers, Armin B., Fox, Dieter, Hähnel, Dirk, Lakemeyer, Gerhard, Schulz, Dirk, Steiner, Walter, Thrun, Sebastian   +7 more
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MINERVA: A Tour-Guide Robot that Learns

1999
This paper describes an interactive tour-guide robot which was successfully exhibited in a Smithsonian museum. Minerva employed a collection of learning techniques, some of which were necessary to cope with the challenges arising from its extremely large and crowded environment, whereas others were used to aid the robot's interactive capabilities ...
Thrun, Sebastian, Bennewitz, Maren, Burgard, Wolfram, Cremers, Armin B., Dellaert, Frank, Fox, Dieter, Hähnel, Dirk, Rosenberg, Charles, Roy, Nicholas, Schulte, Jamieson, Schulz, Dirk   +10 more
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Autonomous navigation of an indoor tour guide robot

2008 IEEE Workshop on Advanced robotics and Its Social Impacts, 2008
This paper develops methodologies and techniques for autonomous navigation of a tour-guide robot with a human-robot interaction system. The designed navigation system includes global localization, dynamic path planning, local goal-seeking, safe obstacle-avoidance, behavior fusion, and autonomous robot control.
null Ching-Chih Tsai, null Shu-Min Shish, null Hsu-Chih Huang, null Min-Yu Wang, null Chih Chung Lee   +4 more
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Multisensor-based outdoor tour guide robot NTU-I

2008 SICE Annual Conference, 2008
This paper presents our development of a new outdoor tour guide robot, named, NTU-I. It is constructed to provide autonomous guiding services on the campus of National Taiwan University. In order to fulfill reliability and safety of outdoor navigation, data acquired via several sensing technologies, such as differential global positioning system (DGPS),
null Kuo-Hung Chiang, null Shih-Huan Tseng, null Yen-Hsun Wu, null Guan-Hao Li, null Chi-Pang Lam, Li-Chen Fu   +5 more
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Route learning and reproduction in a tour-guide robot

Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2015
Traditionally, route information is introduced in tour-guide robots by experts in robotics. In the tour-guide robot that we are developing, we allow the robot to learn new routes while following an instructor. In this paper we describe the route recording process that takes place while following a human, as well as, how those routes are later ...
V. Alvarez-Santos, A. Canedo-Rodriguez, R. Iglesias, X.M. Pardo, C.V. Regueiro, M. Fernandez-Delgado   +5 more
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Probabilistic Algorithms and the Interactive Museum Tour-Guide Robot Minerva

The International Journal of Robotics Research, 2000
This paper describes Minerva, an interactive tour-guide robot that was successfully deployed in a Smithsonian museum. Minerva’s software is pervasively probabilistic, relying on explicit representations of uncertainty in perception and control. During 2 weeks of operation, the robot interacted with thousands of people, both in the museum and through ...
Thrun, Sebastian, Beetz, Michael, Bennewitz, Maren, Burgard, Wolfram, Cremers, Armin B., Dellaert, Frank, Fox, Dieter, Hähnel, Dirk, Rosenberg, Charles, Roy, Nicholas, Schulte, J., Schulz, Dirk   +11 more
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System Integration of a Tour Guide Robot

2022 17th Annual System of Systems Engineering Conference (SOSE), 2022
Suhasa Prabhu Kandikere, Celal Savur, Ferat Sahin   +2 more
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Human Interaction and Improving Knowledge through Collaborative Tour Guide Robots

2019 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2019
In the coming years tour guide robots will be widely used in museums and exhibitions. Therefore, it is important to identify how these new museum guides can optimally interact with visitors. In this paper, we introduce the idea of two collaborative tour guide robots.
Anna-Maria Velentza, Dietmar Heinke, Jeremy Wyatt   +2 more
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