Intelligent Unmanned Store Service Robot "Part Timer"

摘要

In the 21 st century, life for humans being has become busy to the extent that they strive for a comfortable and easy life. Service robots can provide this comfort to humans by doing all their difficult and dirty work. In order to provide this service, robots should be able to work in the same environment as humans. Service robots should have intelligent abilities such as greeting, conversation with humans, moving while avoiding obstacles, grabbing objects, etc However, service robots can just walk or run slowly (Riezenman, M.J., 2002), recognize little behavior Therefore it is essential for service robots to have communication and recognition abilities that can be used in any kind of situation to help humans in a real environment. Lots of studies have focused on these abilities of service robots and many system architectures for intelligent service robots are introduced. Mumolo has proposed the algorithm based on Prosodic model that processes vocal interaction using natural language Kleinehagenbrock has introduced the system architecture of intelligent robots based on agent for humans robot interaction and have applied it to real robot (Kleinehagenbrock M. et al., 2004). Hyung-Min Koo has proposed new software architecture that changes its functions and compositions according to situation (Hyung-Min Koo et al., 2005). Kanda has proposed the system architecture that performs more than 100 behaviors with simple voice (T. Kanda et al., 2002). Mikio Nakano has proposed the two-layer model for behavior and dialogue planning in conversational service robots (Nakano, M. et al., 2005). Gluer has proposed the system architecture for context based exception handling in the case of an unexpected situation (Gluer D., 2000). The expectation of the service robot market is getting bigger and lots of researchers are interested in developing intelligent service robots recently ApriAlpha is home automation robots for intelligent home and used for communication with humans (Yoshimi T. et al., 2004). Besides there are lots of examples of home automation robots;