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Towards robust personal assistant robots: experience gained in the SRS project

  • Renxi Qiu
    ,
  • Ze Ji
    ,
  • Alexandre Noyvirt
    ,
  • Anthony Soroka
    ,
  • Rossi Setchi
    ,
  • Duc Truong Pham
Research Output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Conference contribution Peer-review

Abstract

SRS is a European research project for building robust personal assistant robots using ROS (Robotic Operating System) and Care-O-bot (COB) 3 as the initial demonstration platform. In this paper, experience gained while building the SRS system is presented. A main contribution of the paper is the SRS autonomous control framework. The framework is divided into two parts. First, it has an automatic task planner, which initialises actions on the symbolic level. The planner produces proactive robotic behaviours based on updated semantic knowledge. Second, it has an action executive for coordination actions at the level of sensing and actuation. The executive produces reactive behaviours in well-defined domains. The two parts are integrated by fuzzy logic based symbolic grounding. As a whole, they represent the framework for autonomous control. Based on the framework, several new components and user interfaces are integrated on top of COB's existing capabilities to enable robust fetch and carry in unstructured environments. The implementation strategy and results are discussed at the end of the paper.

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Output type

Research Output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Conference contribution Peer-review

Original language

English

Publication milestones

  • Published - 20/12/2012

Publication status

Published - 20/12/2012

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., United States

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/625704
  • Scopus: 84872358679

Host publication title

nan

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