Ubiquitous interaction and navigation in robot systems

Abstract

Robots have a continuous increasingly role in today's society as they have stepped in the human environment in order to better fulfil demanding and complex tasks. A novel mobile robot system based on ubiquitous computing technologies is proposed to address two fundamental problems in the field of robotics, i.e. the interaction between human and robot and navigation in the workspace environment. A preliminary test scenario shows a friendly, portable and universal robot system which combines the advantages of ubiquitous computing and of efficient interaction and navigation algorithms based on artificial intelligent methods.