SPENCER: A Socially Aware Service Robot for Passenger Guidance and Help in Busy Airports

Title

SPENCER: A Socially Aware Service Robot for Passenger Guidance and Help in Busy Airports

 Author

Triebel, R.
Arras, K.
Alami, R.
Beyer, L.
Breuers, S.
Chatila, R.
Chetouani, M.
Cremers, D.
Evers, V.
Fiore, M.
Hung, H.S.
Islas Ram¿rez, O.
Joosse, M.
Khambhaita, H.
Kucner, T.
Leibe, B.
Lilienthal, A.J.
Linder, T.
Lohse, M.
Magnusson, M.
Okal, B.
Palmieri, L.
Rafi, U.
van Rooij, M.
Zhang, L.

Faculty

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

 Department

Intelligent Systems

 Date

2015-12-31

 Abstract

We present an ample description of a socially compliant mobile robotic platform, which is developed in the EU-funded project SPENCER. The purpose of this robot is to assist, inform and guide passengers in large and busy airports. One particular aim is to bring travellers of connecting flights conveniently and efficiently from their arrival gate to the passport control. The uniqueness of the project stems from the strong demand of service robots for this application with a large potential impact for the aviation industry on one side, and on the other side from the scientific advancements in social robotics, brought forward and achieved in SPENCER. The main contributions of SPENCER are novel methods to perceive, learn, and model human social behavior and to use this knowledge to plan appropriate actions in realtime for mobile platforms. In this paper, we describe how the project advances the fields of detection and tracking of individuals and groups, recognition of human social relations and activities, normative human behavior learning, socially-aware task and motion planning, learning socially annotated maps, and conducting empirical experiments to assess socio-psychological effects of normative robot behaviors.

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 Publisher

University of Toronto

 Source

Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Field and Service Robotics, FSR 2015; Toronto (Canada), June 24-26, 2015

 Part of collection

Institutional Repository

 Document type

conference paper

 Rights

(c) 2015 The Authors
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