Development of intelligent behaviors for a mobile robot

Author

Xu, Liying ; Zein-Sabatto, Saleh ; Sekmen, Ali

Author_Institution

Tennessee State Univ., Nashville, TN, USA

fYear

2001

fDate

36951

Firstpage

383

Lastpage

386

Abstract

Mobile robots are gaining more effect in our lives. However, to become a part of our daily life, mobile robot should be socially accepted by humans. Evidently, the acceptance rate will increase as human-robot interaction gets closer to human-human types of interaction. In this research, a group of independent human-like behaviors and reflection functions are developed and implemented on a RWI B-14 mobile robot. The robot, called “TourMate”, uses the Linux operating system and has distributed programming capability provided by its software structure called BeeSoft. The development of intelligent behaviors will improve TourMate´s current human interaction. Avoidance functions were developed previously and some more behavior and reflection functions are currently under development. This paper presents the design, implementation, and simulation results as well as testing results conducted on TourMate

Keywords

Unix; distributed programming; intelligent control; mobile robots; user interfaces; BeeSoft; Linux operating system; RWI B-14 mobile robot; TourMate; avoidance functions; distributed programming capability; human-robot interaction; independent human-like behaviors; intelligent behavior development; intelligent behaviors; reflection functions; software structure; Computer architecture; Intelligent robots; Mobile robots; Optical reflection; Optical sensors; Optical signal processing; Robot control; Robot sensing systems; Robot vision systems; Sonar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Theory, 2001. Proceedings of the 33rd Southeastern Symposium on

Conference_Location

Athens, OH

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6661-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SSST.2001.918550

Filename

918550