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The Design of a Highly Reliable Robot for Unmediated Museum Interaction
I. Nourbakhsh, E. Hamner, E. Porter, B. Dunlavey, E.M. Ayoob, T. Hsiu, M. Lotter, and S. Shelly
Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '05), April, 2005, pp. 3225 - 3231.

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Installation of a robot system in a publicly accessible technical museum poses nontrivial problems along three axes. First, the robot must be reliable, both by failing rarely in spite of continuous, daily use and by allowing museum staff to easily return the robot to service. Second, the robot must perform without the need for staff intervention, from system autonomy to energetics enabling full-day operation without battery replacement. Third, the user-end interaction software must be self-explanatory as well as instructional and engaging in order to effectively communicate the learning goals of the exhibit. In this paper we describe the design of such a robot system and share early results regarding its successful deployment at five museums across the United States.

Associated center: VASC
Associated lab/group: CREATE: Community Robotics, Education and Technology Empowerment

Number of pages: 7

I. Nourbakhsh, E. Hamner, E. Porter, B. Dunlavey, E.M. Ayoob, T. Hsiu, M. Lotter, and S. Shelly, "The Design of a Highly Reliable Robot for Unmediated Museum Interaction," Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '05), April, 2005, pp. 3225 - 3231.

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