Voice control design of a mobile robot using shared-control approach

Abstract

Human voice provides a convenient and natural way to control a service robot. However, in practice simple voice commands are not sufficient to give continuous and safe motion of a mobile service robot in a complex environment. This paper presents a shared-control approach for voice remote control of a mobile robot. A remote control scheme for an omnidirectional mobile robot is proposed to overcome the delay-time problem of voice commands and maintain the safe motion of the robot. In this work, we combine the robot autonomy and human intention by using shared-control techniques. The human and robot interactive gains are obtained by computing posterior of free-space using a Bayesian recursive algorithm. Experimental results are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.