MINERVA: A second generation mobile tour-guide robot - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

MINERVA: A second generation mobile tour-guide robot

Sebastian Thrun, M. Bennewitz, W. Burgard, A. B. Cremers, Frank Dellaert, Dieter Fox, D. Haehnel, Chuck Rosenberg, Nicholas Roy, Jamieson Schulte, and D. Schulz
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 3, pp. 1999 - 2005, May, 1999

Abstract

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.

BibTeX

@conference{Thrun-1999-16656,
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},
title = {MINERVA: A second generation mobile tour-guide robot},
booktitle = {Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation},
year = {1999},
month = {May},
volume = {3},
pages = {1999 - 2005},
}