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The AMIRO Social Robotics Framework: Deployment and Evaluation on the Pepper Robot

Recent studies in social robotics show that it can provide economic efficiency and growth in domains such as retail, entertainment, and active and assisted living (AAL). Recent work also highlights that users have the expectation of affordable social robotics platforms, providing focused and specifi...

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Autores principales: Ghiță, Alexandra Ștefania, Gavril, Alexandru Florin, Nan, Mihai, Hoteit, Bilal, Awada, Imad Alex, Sorici, Alexandru, Mocanu, Irina Georgiana, Florea, Adina Magda
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Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7766942/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33352943
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20247271
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author Ghiță, Alexandra Ștefania
Gavril, Alexandru Florin
Nan, Mihai
Hoteit, Bilal
Awada, Imad Alex
Sorici, Alexandru
Mocanu, Irina Georgiana
Florea, Adina Magda
author_facet Ghiță, Alexandra Ștefania
Gavril, Alexandru Florin
Nan, Mihai
Hoteit, Bilal
Awada, Imad Alex
Sorici, Alexandru
Mocanu, Irina Georgiana
Florea, Adina Magda
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description Recent studies in social robotics show that it can provide economic efficiency and growth in domains such as retail, entertainment, and active and assisted living (AAL). Recent work also highlights that users have the expectation of affordable social robotics platforms, providing focused and specific assistance in a robust manner. In this paper, we present the AMIRO social robotics framework, designed in a modular and robust way for assistive care scenarios. The framework includes robotic services for navigation, person detection and recognition, multi-lingual natural language interaction and dialogue management, as well as activity recognition and general behavior composition. We present AMIRO platform independent implementation based on a Robot Operating System (ROS). We focus on quantitative evaluations of each functionality module, providing discussions on their performance in different settings and the possible improvements. We showcase the deployment of the AMIRO framework on a popular social robotics platform—the Pepper robot—and present the experience of developing a complex user interaction scenario, employing all available functionality modules within AMIRO.
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spelling pubmed-77669422020-12-28 The AMIRO Social Robotics Framework: Deployment and Evaluation on the Pepper Robot Ghiță, Alexandra Ștefania Gavril, Alexandru Florin Nan, Mihai Hoteit, Bilal Awada, Imad Alex Sorici, Alexandru Mocanu, Irina Georgiana Florea, Adina Magda Sensors (Basel) Article Recent studies in social robotics show that it can provide economic efficiency and growth in domains such as retail, entertainment, and active and assisted living (AAL). Recent work also highlights that users have the expectation of affordable social robotics platforms, providing focused and specific assistance in a robust manner. In this paper, we present the AMIRO social robotics framework, designed in a modular and robust way for assistive care scenarios. The framework includes robotic services for navigation, person detection and recognition, multi-lingual natural language interaction and dialogue management, as well as activity recognition and general behavior composition. We present AMIRO platform independent implementation based on a Robot Operating System (ROS). We focus on quantitative evaluations of each functionality module, providing discussions on their performance in different settings and the possible improvements. We showcase the deployment of the AMIRO framework on a popular social robotics platform—the Pepper robot—and present the experience of developing a complex user interaction scenario, employing all available functionality modules within AMIRO. MDPI 2020-12-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7766942/ /pubmed/33352943 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20247271 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Ghiță, Alexandra Ștefania
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Awada, Imad Alex
Sorici, Alexandru
Mocanu, Irina Georgiana
Florea, Adina Magda
The AMIRO Social Robotics Framework: Deployment and Evaluation on the Pepper Robot
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7766942/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33352943
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20247271
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