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MINERVA: A second generation mobile tour-guide robot
S. Thrun, M. Bennewitz, W. Burgard, A.B. Cremers, F. Dellaert, D. Fox, D. Haehnel, C. Rosenberg, N. Roy, J. Schulte, and D. Schulz
Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'99), 1999.

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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. Our approach specifically addresses issues such as safe navigation in unmodified and dynamic environments, and short-term human-robot interaction. It uses learning pervasively at all levels of the software architecture.

Associated lab/group: Robot Learning Lab
Associated project: Minerva

S. Thrun, M. Bennewitz, W. Burgard, A.B. Cremers, F. Dellaert, D. Fox, D. Haehnel, C. Rosenberg, N. Roy, J. Schulte, and D. Schulz, "MINERVA: A second generation mobile tour-guide robot," Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'99), 1999.

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   author = "Sebastian Thrun and M. Bennewitz and W. Burgard and A.B. Cremers and Frank Dellaert and Dieter Fox and D. Haehnel and Chuck Rosenberg and Nicholas Roy and Jamieson Schulte and D. Schulz",
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   booktitle = "Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'99)",
   year = "1999"
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