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A Portable and Self-presenting Robotic Ecology HRI Testbed

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Evolving Ambient Intelligence (AmI 2013)

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Robotic ecologies are networks of heterogeneous devices (sensors, actuators, automated appliances and mobile robots) pervasively embedded in everyday environments, where they cooperate to the achievement of complex tasks. Their successful application opens important research questions for both their engineering and their interaction with human users. In this paper we illustrate a testbed built to support interaction studies between human users and robotic ecologies. The testbed consists of an interactive and autonomous robotic ecology that is able to engage with human users, react to their activities, and even introduce them to the main concepts behind robotic ecologies. We describe how such a testbed is built using a middleware purposefully designed for robotic ecologies, and we report our experiences in its application to a number of project demonstrations and human-robot interaction studies.

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  1. University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland

    Anara Sandygulova & Mauro Dragone

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  1. Adaptive Information Cluster, School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland

    Michael J. O’Grady

  2. University of Birjand, Iran

    Hamed Vahdat-Nejad

  3. Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics, Braunschweig, Germany

    Klaus-Hendrik Wolf

  4. Department of Computer Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland

    Mauro Dragone

  5. University of St Andrews, UK

    Juan Ye

  6. RWTH Aachen University, Germany

    Carsten Röcker

  7. School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland

    Gregory O’Hare

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Sandygulova, A., Dragone, M. (2013). A Portable and Self-presenting Robotic Ecology HRI Testbed. In: O’Grady, M.J., et al. Evolving Ambient Intelligence. AmI 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 413. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04406-4_14

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