Multi-robot human-interaction and visitor flow management

Author

Jensen, B. ; Froidevaux, G. ; Greppin, X. ; Lorotte, A. ; Mayor, L. ; Meisser, M. ; Ramel, G. ; Siegwart, R.

Author_Institution

Autonomous Syst. Lab, Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technol., Lausanne, Switzerland

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

14-19 Sept. 2003

Firstpage

2388

Abstract

In this paper we address the task of human-robot interaction in public mass exposition with several autonomous robots at a time. This implies questions regarding multi-robot control and interaction management with respect to social and commercial aspects of such an exposition. Multi-robot and interaction management is addressed with respect to visitor density and visitor flow. Human-robot interaction is modeled using the SOUL environment. We present and discuss results from the Swiss national exhibition Expo.02 in the time from 15.05.02 to 20.10.02, with over 10´000 hours of total robot operation time and more than 600´000 visitors.

Keywords

exhibitions; interactive systems; man-machine systems; mobile robots; multi-robot systems; Swiss national exhibition; autonomous robots; human-robot interaction; human-robot model; interaction management; multiple robot control; public mass exposition; visitor density management; visitor flow management; Control systems; Displacement control; Hardware; Human robot interaction; Mobile robots; Orbital robotics; Rendering (computer graphics); Resource management; Robot sensing systems; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics and Automation, 2003. Proceedings. ICRA '03. IEEE International Conference on

ISSN

1050-4729

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7736-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROBOT.2003.1241950

Filename

1241950