SPENCER: A Socially Aware Service Robot for Passenger Guidance and Help in Busy Airports

Rudolph Triebel; Kai Arras; Rachid Alami; Lucas Beyer; Stefan Breuers; Raja Chatila; Mohamed Chetouani; Daniel Cremers; Vanessa Evers; Michelangelo Fiore; Hayley Hung; Omar A. Islas Ramírez; Michiel Joosse; Harmish Khambhaita; Tomasz Kucner; Bastian Leibe; Achim J. Lilienthal; Timm Linder; Manja Lohse; Martin Magnusson; Billy Okal; Luigi Palmieri; Umer Rafi; Marieke van Rooij; Lu Zhang

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-27702-8_40

SPENCER: A Socially Aware Service Robot for Passenger Guidance and Help in Busy Airports

Rudolph Triebel, Kai Arras, Rachid Alami, Lucas Beyer, Stefan Breuers, Raja Chatila, Mohamed Chetouani, Daniel Cremers, Vanessa Evers, Michelangelo Fiore, Hayley Hung, Omar A. Islas Ramírez, Michiel Joosse, Harmish Khambhaita, Tomasz Kucner, Bastian Leibe, Achim J. Lilienthal, Timm Linder, Manja Lohse, Martin MagnussonBilly Okal, Luigi Palmieri, Umer Rafi, Marieke van Rooij, Lu Zhang

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We present an ample description of a socially compliant mobile robotic platform, which is developed in the EU-funded project SPENCER. The purpose of this robot is to assist, inform and guide passengers in large and busy airports. One particular aim is to bring travelers of connecting flights conveniently and efficiently from their arrival gate to the passport control. The uniqueness of the project stems from the strong demand of service robots for this application with a large potential impact for the aviation industry on one side, and on the other side from the scientific advancements in social robotics, brought forward and achieved in SPENCER. The main contributions of SPENCER are novel methods to perceive, learn, and model human social behavior and to use this knowledge to plan appropriate actions in realtime for mobile platforms. In this paper, we describe how the project advances the fields of detection and tracking of individuals and groups, recognition of human social relations and activities, normative human behavior learning, socially-aware task and motion planning, learning socially annotated maps, and conducting empirical experiments to assess socio-psychological effects of normative robot behaviors.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Field and Service Robotics, FSR 2015
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Springer
Pages	607-622
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Print)	978-3-319-27700-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27702-8_40
Publication status	Published - 24 Jun 2015
Event	10th Conference on Field and Service Robotics, FSR 2015 - Toronto, Canada Duration: 24 Jun 2015 → 26 Jun 2015 Conference number: 10

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Name	Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Volume	113
ISSN (Print)	1610-7438

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Conference	10th Conference on Field and Service Robotics, FSR 2015
Abbreviated title	FSR
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Toronto
Period	24/06/15 → 26/06/15

Keywords

HMI-HF: Human Factors
EC Grant Agreement nr.: FP7/600877
EC Grant Agreement nr.: FP7/2007-2013

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Triebel, R., Arras, K., Alami, R., Beyer, L., Breuers, S., Chatila, R., Chetouani, M., Cremers, D., Evers, V., Fiore, M., Hung, H., Islas Ramírez, O. A., Joosse, M., Khambhaita, H., Kucner, T., Leibe, B., Lilienthal, A. J., Linder, T., Lohse, M., ... Zhang, L. (2015). SPENCER: A Socially Aware Service Robot for Passenger Guidance and Help in Busy Airports. In Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Field and Service Robotics, FSR 2015 (pp. 607-622). (Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics; Vol. 113). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27702-8_40

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Triebel, R, Arras, K, Alami, R, Beyer, L, Breuers, S, Chatila, R, Chetouani, M, Cremers, D, Evers, V, Fiore, M, Hung, H, Islas Ramírez, OA, Joosse, M, Khambhaita, H, Kucner, T, Leibe, B, Lilienthal, AJ, Linder, T, Lohse, M, Magnusson, M, Okal, B, Palmieri, L, Rafi, U, van Rooij, M & Zhang, L 2015, SPENCER: A Socially Aware Service Robot for Passenger Guidance and Help in Busy Airports. in Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Field and Service Robotics, FSR 2015. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, vol. 113, Springer, London, pp. 607-622, 10th Conference on Field and Service Robotics, FSR 2015, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 24/06/15. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27702-8_40

SPENCER: A Socially Aware Service Robot for Passenger Guidance and Help in Busy Airports. / Triebel, Rudolph; Arras, Kai; Alami, Rachid et al.
Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Field and Service Robotics, FSR 2015. London: Springer, 2015. p. 607-622 (Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics; Vol. 113).

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