ShowBot
Overview
Using RIDE we have developed a couple of tour guide robots that participated in several events. The tour guide robot application participated in the Xunventude Galicia Net for the 2007 and 2008 editions with different robots. In the 2007 edition, a Peoplebot base worked for three days in the Palacio de Congresos y Exposiciones de Galicia, Santiago de Compostela (Spain).
In the 2008 edition, a B21 base with a robotic head was used. Even though two different platforms have been used, most of the modules for the 2007 edition were also used in 2008. The main changes in the basic modules were that the base control module was changed and the head control was added. In the Task definition level, a few Petri nets were created to include the new primitives. For example, the robotic head moves the mouth, while the speech module was reproducing a text. Finally, a few configuration project parameters, such as the places to visit and the texts to say, were changed.
Publications
Title: Communication framework for sensor-actuator data in mobile robots.
Authors: J. L. Fernández, Maria J. Souto, Diego P. Losada, R. Sanz, E. Paz
Congress: ISIE-2007 IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics
Publication: Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, pp:1502-150.
Place: Vigo, Spain, from 4 to 7 July 2007
Year: 2007
ISBN: 1-4244-0755-9
Title: Fast Face Detection for Mobile Robots by Integrating Laser Range Data with Vision
Authors: J. Blanco, W. Burgard, R. Sanz, J. L. Fernández
Congress: 11th International Conference on Advanced Robotics
Publication: Proceedings of the ICAR conference Volume 2 pp:953-958
Place: Coimbra, Portugal
Year: 2003
ISBN: 972-96889-8-2
Title: Diseño de una Cabeza Robótica para el estudio de procesos de interacción con personas.
Authors: E. P. Domonte, J. P. Castro, J. L. Fernández, R. Sanz.
Congress: XXV Jornadas de Automática
Publication: XXV Jornadas de Automática (CD)
Place: Ciudad Real, Spain, from 8 to 10 September 2004
Year: 2004
ISBN: 84-688-7460-4
Title: Desarrollo de una interfaz de voz basada en HTK para robots móviles
Authors: Pablo M. Barbosa, Joaquín L. Fernández y Rafael Sanz
Congress: CEDI 2005 I Congreso Español de Informática (WAF 2005 Workshop en Agentes Físicos)
Publication: Actas del VI Workshop en Agentes Físicos. Editorial Thomson. pp127-134
Place: Granada, Spain
Year: 2005
ISBN: 84-9732-450-1
Title: Especificación y modelado de tareas de alto nivel para robots móviles. Aplicación a la interpretación de órdenes vocales.
Authors: Joaquín L. Fernández, Rafael Sanz, Pablo M. Barbosa, Amador R. Diéguez
Congress: XXVIII Jornadas de Automática 2007
Publication: Proceedings of Jornadas de Automática.
Place: Huelva, Spain, from 5 to 7 September 2007
Year: 2007
ISBN: 978-84-690-7497-8
Title: Building a robot head: Design and control issues
Authors: Gustavo Barciela, Enrique Paz, Joaquín López, Rafael Sanz, Diego Pérez
Congress: IX Workshop de Agentes Físicos (WAF 2008)
Publication: Actas de la IX edición Workshop de Agentes Físicos (WAF 2008) pp33-39
Place: Vigo, Spain from 10 to 12 September
Year: 2008
ISBN: 978-84-8158-399-1