An Integrated Robotic System for Spatial Understanding and Situated Interaction in Indoor Environments

Hendrik Zender, Patric Jensfelt, Oscar Martinez Mozos, Geert-Jan Kruijff and Wolfram Burgard.

Abstract:

A major challenge in robotics and artificial intelligence lies in creating robots that are to cooperate with people in human-populated environments, e.g. for domestic assistance or elderly care. Such robots need skills that allow them to interact with the world and the humans living and working therein. In this paper we investigate the question of spatial understanding of human-made environments. The functionalities of our system comprise perception of the world, natural language, learning, and reasoning. For this purpose we integrate state-of-the-art components from different disciplines in AI, robotics and cognitive systems into a mobile robot system. The work focuses on the description of the principles we used for the integration, including cross-modal integration, ontology-based mediation, and multiple levels of abstraction of perception. Finally, we present experiments with the integrated system and list some of the major lessons that were learned from its design, implementation, and evaluation.

BibTeX Entry:

@InProceedings{Zender07b
  author =       {Hendrik Zender and Patric Jensfelt and Oscar Martinez Mozos and Geert-Jan M. Kruijff and Wolfram Burgard},
  title =        {An Integrated Robotic Systen for Spatial Understanding and Situated Interaction in Indoor Environments},
  booktitle =    {In Proc.~of the Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)},
  year =         2007,
  address =      {Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada},
  month =        jul
}

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COSY Explorer 2006-11-14 Stockholm Full Run
This video shows a full run of the integrated Explorer system mobile robot as shown in the COSY project meeting in Stockholm, Sweden, in November 2006.