The Journal of Korea Robotics Society (로봇학회논문지)
- Volume 3 Issue 4
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- Pages.278-286
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- 2008
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- 1975-6291(pISSN)
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- 2287-3961(eISSN)
An Application of Smart Environment Technology for Indoor Service Robots
실내 서비스 로봇을 위한 스마트환경 기술의 응용
Abstract
Reliable functionalities for autonomous navigation and object recognition/handling are key technologies to service robots for executing useful services in human environments. A considerable amount of research has been conducted to make the service robot perform these operations with its own sensors, actuators and a knowledge database. With all heavy sensors, actuators and a database, the robot could have performed the given tasks in a limited environment or showed the limited capabilities in a natural environment. With the new paradigms on robot technologies, we attempted to apply smart environments technologies-such as RFID, sensor network and wireless network- to robot functionalities for executing reliable services. In this paper, we introduce concepts of proposed smart environments based robot navigation and object recognition/handling method and present results on robot services. Even though our methods are different from existing robot technologies, successful implementation result on real applications shows the effectiveness of our approaches.