HOMER: Human Oriented MEssenger Robot

HOMER ,t he Human Oriented MEssenger Robot, is a stereovision guided mobile robot for performing human-interactive tasks. Our desig nc on cept for HOMER combines mobile robotic techniques for navigation, localization, map building and obstacle avoidance with human interaction capacities for person recognition, speech, facial expression and gesture recognition, and human dynamics modeling. HOMER’s capabilities are modular and independent, and are integrated in ac onsistent and scalable fashion under the umbrella of ad ecision-theoretic planner, which models the uncertain effects of the robot’s actions. The planner uses factored Markov decision processes, allowing for simple specification of tasks, goals and state spaces. We demonstrate HOMER performing am essagedelivery task, which is rich and complex both in robot navigation and in human interaction.

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