SAM: A robotic butler for handicapped people

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Abstract

This article presents a service robotic system for disabled people. SAM is a mobile platform that grasps any textured object in an apartment-like environment. The object grasping is realized with a robotic arm, mounted onto the mobile unit. Thanks to the stereo rig on the arm's gripper, the user defines the object to grasp on a remote screen, in a very simple way, and the grasping is autonomously performed by visual servoing. The scheduling of the operations is defined and controlled with automatons that are dynamically interpreted with a scenario manager. At last, the communication between the different components is realized with web services through a DPWS layer, providing an efficient solution for sharing data between any device of an intelligent home. Experiments confirm the validity of our approach.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 17th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN
Pages315-321
Number of pages7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2008
Externally publishedYes
Event17th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN - Munich, Germany
Duration: 1 Aug 20083 Aug 2008

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 17th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN

Conference

Conference17th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityMunich
Period1/08/083/08/08

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