The development and real-world deployment of FROG, the fun robotic outdoor guide

Vanessa Evers, Nuno Menezes, Luis Merino, Dariu Gavrila, Fernando Nabais, Maja Pantic, Paulo Alvito, Daphne Karreman
2014 Proceedings of the 2014 ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot interaction - HRI '14  
This video details the development of an intelligent outdoor Guide robot. The main objective is to deploy an innovative robotic guide which is not only able to show information, but to react to the affective states of the users, and to offer locationbased services using augmented reality. The scientific challenges concern autonomous outdoor navigation and localization, robust 24/7 operation, affective interaction with visitors through outdoor human and facial feature detection as well as
more » ... g interactive behaviors in an ongoing non-verbal dialogue with the user.
doi:10.1145/2559636.2559649 dblp:conf/hri/EversMMGNPAK14 fatcat:4tpdq2udhvd37b53lhdzbtceni