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The Domestic Robot - A Friendly Cognitive System Takes Care of your Home

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Ambient Intelligence: Impact on Embedded Sytem Design

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The system we describe in this paper is an indoor intelligent system, that is still under development. Our goal is to evolve the system with abilities suitable for a domestic robot, that has to cope with a continuously evolving ambient, the house. The interest of the system relies in its architecture that has been studied and designed for the purpose of integrating some specific cognitive behavior like perception, symbolic map construction and making decisions in a whole hierarchy of intercommunicating levels.

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Pirri, F., Mentuccia, I., Storri, S. (2003). The Domestic Robot - A Friendly Cognitive System Takes Care of your Home. In: Basten, T., Geilen, M., de Groot, H. (eds) Ambient Intelligence: Impact on Embedded Sytem Design. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-48706-3_8

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