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The autonomous tour-guide robot Jinny

2004 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37566), 2005
This paper explains a new tour-guide robot Jinny. The Jinny is developed by focusing on human robot interaction and autonomous navigation. In order to achieve reliable and safe navigation performance, an integrated navigation strategy is established based on the analysis of a robot's states and the decision making process of robot behaviors.
null Gunhee Kim, null Woojin Chung, null Kyung-Rock Kim, null Munsang Kim, null Sangmok Han, R.H. Shinn   +5 more
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Evolving an effective robot tour guide

2011 IEEE Congress of Evolutionary Computation (CEC), 2011
Guiding visitors through an exhibit space such as a museum is an important, early application for mobile robots, and commercial robots designed for this purpose have become available. We consider the problem of using a single mobile robot to simultaneously direct multiple groups of visitors through a museum or exhibition, and formulate an objective ...
Hideru Hiruma, Alex Fukunaga, Kazuki Komiya, Hitoshi Iba   +3 more
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Accessible Robot Tour Guides - An Exploratory Study

2021
This submission relates to the exploratory phase of a wider project aiming to investigate the use of robotics as a novel tourist attraction and explore if it can mitigate the damage caused to the Welsh tourism sector as a result of the lockdown across the UK (first imposed on 23rd March 2020).
Minor, Katarzyna, McLoughlin, Emmet, Richards, Vicky, Matthews, Nic   +3 more
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Human / robot visual interaction for a tour-guide robot

2007 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2007
This paper deals with visual recognition and tracking of people and gestures from a camera mounted on a tour-guide robot in a human, cluttered, environment. The particle filtering framework enables the fusion of visual cues, both into an importance function from which the particles are sampled, and into a measurement model used for weights definition ...
Thierry Germa, Frederic Lerasle, Patrick Danes, Ludovic Brethes   +3 more
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Museum tour guide robot with augmented reality

2010 16th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia, 2010
Many mobile robots have been deployed in various museums to interact with people naturally. The key requirements of a museum tour guide robot are how well it interacts with people and how well it localizes itself. Once those are accomplished, the robot can successfully educate and entertain people.
Byung-Ok Han, Young-Ho Kim, Kyusung Cho, Hyun S. Yang   +3 more
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Tour guide robot using wireless based localization

IEEE International Conference on Electro-Information Technology , EIT 2013, 2013
This paper details the design and implementation of a tour guide robot. This robot makes use of a ZigBee wireless network to locate itself in the tour area using a weighted centroid technique. Most popular technologies like GPS based localization do not work well in the indoor environment that the tour guide robot would operate in.
Jonathan MacDougall, Girma S. Tewolde
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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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