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Walking with someone or guiding them to a destination is a simple task that humans do everyday. However, while almost any mobile robot can navigate to a given point while a human walks behind it, these robots do not take into consideration whether the human is following along properly. Our research involves the use of a wireless sensor network for navigation of a guidance robot and a vision-based tracking system for human awareness. The network creates a virtual directional field that provides a directional imperative to the robot, and the vision system allows it to detect if a following human has strayed. We also present a demonstration of our system in a real world application.
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Enriquez, G., Buyo, Y., Hashimoto, S. (2007). Embodied Communication Between Human and Robot in Route Guidance. In: Smith, M.J., Salvendy, G. (eds) Human Interface and the Management of Information. Methods, Techniques and Tools in Information Design. Human Interface 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4557. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73345-4_93
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