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


Rudolph Triebel, Kai Oliver Arras, Rachid Alami, Lucas Beyer, Stefan Breuers, Raja Chatila, Mohamed Chetouani, Daniel Cremers, Vanessa Evers, Michelangelo Fiore, Hayley Hung, Omar A. Ramírez Islas, Michiel Joosse, Harmish Khambhaita, Tomasz Kucner, Bastian Leibe, Achim Lilienthal, Timm Linder, Manja Lohse, Martin Magnusson, Billy Okal, Luigi Palmieri, Umer Rafi, Marieke van Rooij, Lu Zhang
Field and Service Robotics (FSR'15)
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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 real- time 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 empir- ical experiments to assess socio-psychological effects of normative robot behaviors.

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@article{triebel2015spencer,
title={SPENCER: a socially aware service robot for passenger guidance and help in busy airports},
author={Triebel, Rudolph and Arras, Kai and Alami, Rachid and Beyer, Lucas and Breuers, Stefan and Chatila, Raja and Chetouani, Mohamed and Cremers, Daniel and Evers, Vanessa and Fiore, Michelangelo and Hung, Hayley and Islas Ramírez, Omar A. and Joosse, Michiel and Khambhaita, Harmish and Kucner, Tomasz and Leibe, Bastian and Lilienthal, Achim J. and Linder, Timm and Lohse, Manja and Magnusson, Martin and Okal, Billy and Palmieri, Luigi and Rafi, Umer and Rooij, Marieke van and Zhang, Lu},
journal={Field and Service Robotics (FSR)
year={2015},
publisher={University of Toronto}

}




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