Robox at Expo.02: A large-scale installation of personal robots
✍ Scribed by Roland Siegwart; Kai O. Arras; Samir Bouabdallah; Daniel Burnier; Gilles Froidevaux; Xavier Greppin; Björn Jensen; Antoine Lorotte; Laetitia Mayor; Mathieu Meisser; Roland Philippsen; Ralph Piguet; Guy Ramel; Gregoire Terrien; Nicola Tomatis
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 960 KB
- Volume
- 42
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0921-8890
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✦ Synopsis
In this paper we present Robox, a mobile robot designed for operation in a mass exhibition and the experience we made with its installation at the Swiss National Exhibition Expo.02. Robox is a fully autonomous mobile platform with unique multi-modal interaction capabilities, a novel approach to global localization using multiple Gaussian hypotheses, and a powerful obstacle avoidance. Eleven Robox ran for 12 hours daily from May 15 to October 20, 2002, traveling more than 3315 km and interacting with 686,000 visitors.