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- Cavallo, Filippo, et al.
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Development of a socially believable multi-robot solution from town to home
- 2014
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Ingår i: Cognitive Computation. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1866-9956 .- 1866-9964. ; 6:4, s. 954-967
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Technological advances in the robotic and ICT fields represent an effective solution to address specific societal problems to support ageing and independent life. One of the key factors for these technologies is that they have to be socially acceptable and believable to the end-users. This paper aimed to present some technological aspects that have been faced to develop the Robot-Era system, a multi-robotic system that is able to act in a socially believable way in the environments daily inhabited by humans, such as urban areas, buildings and homes. In particular, this paper focuses on two services-shopping delivery and garbage collection-showing preliminary results on experiments conducted with 35 elderly people. The analysis adopts an end-user-oriented perspective, considering some of the main attributes of acceptability: usability, attitude, anxiety, trust and quality of life.
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- Di Rocco, Maurizio, 1982-, et al.
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A Planner for Ambient Assisted Living : From High-Level Reasoning to Low-Level Robot Execution and Back
- 2014
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Ingår i: Papers from the AAAI Spring Symposium. - : AAAI Press.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Robot ecologies are a growing paradigm in which oneor several robotic systems are integrated into a smartenvironment. Robotic ecologies hold great promises forelderly assistance. Planning the activities of these systems,however, is not trivial, and requires considerationof issues like temporal and information dependenciesamong different parts of the ecology, exogenous actions,and multiple, dynamic goals. We describe a plannerable to cope with the above challenges. We showin particular how this planner has been incorporatedin closed-loop into a full robotic system that performsdaily tasks in support of elderly people. The full robotecology is deployed in a test apartment inside a real residentialbuilding, and it is currently undergoing an extensiveuser evaluation.
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- Ferri, Gabriele, et al.
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DustCart, a Mobile Robot for Urban Environments : Experiments of Pollution Monitoring and Mapping during Autonomous Navigation in Urban Scenarios
- 2010
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Ingår i: Proceedings of ICRA Workshop on Networked and Mobile Robot Olfaction in Natural, Dynamic Environments.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the framework of DustBot European project, aimed at developing a new multi-robot system for urban hygiene management, we have developed a twowheeled robot: DustCart. DustCart aims at providing a solution to door-to-door garbage collection: the robot, called by a user, navigates autonomously to his/her house; collects the garbage from the user and discharges it in an apposite area. An additional feature of DustCart is the capability to monitor the air pollution by means of an on board Air Monitoring Module (AMM). The AMM integrates sensors to monitor several atmospheric pollutants, such as carbon monoxide (CO), particular matter (PM10), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), ozone (O3) plus temperature (T) and relative humidity (rHu). An Ambient Intelligence platform (AmI) manages the robots’ operations through a wireless connection. AmI is able to collect measurements taken by different robots and to process them to create a pollution distribution map. In this paper we describe the DustCart robot system, focusing on the AMM and on the process of creating the pollutant distribution maps. We report results of experiments of one DustCart robot moving in urban scenarios and producing gas distribution maps using the Kernel DM+V algorithm. These experiments can be considered as one of the first attempts to use robots as mobile monitoring devices that can complement the traditional fixed stations.
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- Reggente, Matteo, 1973-, et al.
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The DustBot System : Using Mobile Robots to Monitor Pollution in Pedestrian Area
- 2010
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Ingår i: Chemical Engineering Transactions. - : AIDIC Servizi. - 1974-9791 .- 2283-9216. - 9788895608143 ; 23, s. 273-278
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The EU project DustBot addresses urban hydeience. Two types of robots were designed, the DustClean robot to autonomously clean pedestrian areas, and the DustCart robot for door-to-door garbage collection. Three prototype robots were built and equipped with electronic noses so as to enable them to collect environmental data while performing their urban hygiene tasks. Essentially, the robots act as a mobile, wirless node in a sensor network. In this paper we give an overview of the DusBot platform focusig on the Air Monitoring Module (AMM). We descibe the data flow between the robots throught the ubiquitous network to a gas distribution modelling server, where a gas deisribution model is computed. We descibe the Kernel DM+V algorithn, an approach to create statistical gas disdtribution models in the form of predictive mean and variance discrtized onto a grid map. Finally we present and discuss results obtained with the DustBot AMM during experimental trails performex in outdoor public places; a courtyard in Pontedera, Italy and a pedestrian square in Örebro, Sweden.
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