W. Burgard, A.B. Cremers, D. Fox, D. Hähnel,
G. Lakemeyer, D. Schulz, W. Steiner, and S. Thrun
The
Interactive Museum Tour-Guide Robot
Proc. of the Fifteenth National Conference on
Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-98)
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Abstract
This paper describes the software architecture of an autonomous
tour-guide/tutor robot. This robot was recently deployed in the ``Deutsches
Museum Bonn,'' were it guided hundreds of visitors through the museum
during a six-day deployment period. The robot's control software
integrates low-level probabilistic reasoning with high-level problem
solving embedded in first order logic. A collection of software
innovations, described in this paper, enabled the robot to navigate at
high speeds through dense crowds, while reliably avoiding collisions
with obstacles---some of which could not even be sensed. Also
described in this paper is a user interface tailored towards
non-expert users, which we believe was essential for the robot's
success in the museum. Based on these results, this paper argues that
time is ripe for the development of AI-based commercial service robots
that assist people in everyday life.
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Bibtex
@INPROCEEDINGS{Bur98Int,
AUTHOR
= {Burgard, W. and Cremers, A.B. and Fox, D. and H{\"a}hnel, D. and Lakemeyer, G. and Schulz, D. and Steiner, W. and Thrun, S.},
TITLE
= {The Interactive Museum Tour-Guide Robot},
YEAR
= {1998},
BOOKTITLE = {Proc.~of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence}
}
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