Abstract:In this paper we present the development of an evidence-based search planner for a mobile assistive robot to autonomously search for a dynamic person in a multi-room home environment in order to provide assistance. We solve the dynamic person search problem by uniquely considering evidence of household objects along with a user spatial-temporal model to increase the probability of finding the user. Our planner utilizes a Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) to plan optimal robot search paths in… Show more
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