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To be useful in a home environment, an assistive robot needs to be capable of a broad range of interactive activities such as locating objects, following specific people, and distinguishing among different people. This paper presents a Segway-based robot that successfully performed all of these tasks en route to a second place finish in the RoboCup@Home 2007 competition. The main contribution is a complete description and analysis of the robot system and its implemented algorithms that enabled the robot’s successful human-robot interaction in this broad and challenging forum. We describe in detail a novel person recognition algorithm, a key component of our overall success, that included two co-trained classifiers, each focusing on different aspects of the person (face and shirt color).
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Knox, W.B., Lee, J., Stone, P. (2009). Domestic Interaction on a Segway Base. In: Iocchi, L., Matsubara, H., Weitzenfeld, A., Zhou, C. (eds) RoboCup 2008: Robot Soccer World Cup XII. RoboCup 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5399. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02921-9_45
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