In this paper, we address the problem of building a system of autonomous agents for a complex environment, in our case, a museum with many visitors. Visitors may have varying pref...
Andrew S. Cantino, David L. Roberts, Charles L. Is...
Museums like marine aquariums are facing a difficult problem when trying to deliver information to their visitors. The exhibits they propose are dynamic by definition. Each may con...
This paper describes the software architecture of an autonomous tour-guide/tutor robot. This robot was recently deployed in the "Deutsches Museum Bonn," were it guided h...
Wolfram Burgard, Armin B. Cremers, Dieter Fox, Dir...
We are currently working on a museum guide robot with an emphasis on "friendly" human-robot interaction displayed through nonverbal behaviors. In this paper, we focus on...
This paper describes a group attention control (GAC) system that enables a communication robot to simultaneously interact with many people. GAC is based on controlling social situ...