A Tea-Serving Robot for Office Environment

Konferenz: ISR/Robotik 2014 - 45th International Symposium on Robotics; 8th German Conference on Robotics
02.06.2014 - 03.06.2014 in München, Germany

Tagungsband: ISR/Robotik 2014

Seiten: 6Sprache: EnglischTyp: PDF

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Autoren:
Kumar, Swagat; Garg, Sourav; Kejriwal, Nishant (Tata Consultancy Services, New Delhi, India)

Inhalt:
This paper provides implementation details of a tea-serving robot designed to operate reliably in an office environment where the robot has to move in a restricted space available between the desks. The robot has multiple modes of operation and has several capabilities like following a coloured-line marked on the floor, following a person, detecting hands approaching the tray, detecting an empty tray and avoiding obstacles. The emphasis of this work has been on improving the robustness and reliability of the whole system. A rigorous quantitative performance analysis is carried out to demonstrate the efficacy of the system.