Development of a Navigation System for a Robotic Shop Guide

Ocaña, Manuel; Llamazares, Ángel; Molinos, Eduardo; Hernández, Noelia; Herranz, Fernando; Revenga, Pedro; López, Elena

Year: 2014

Type of Publication: In Proceedings

Keywords: Autonomous navigation; dynamic environment; obstacle avoidance systems

Editor: Universidad de León

Book title: XV Workshop of Physical Agents

Pages: 169-177

Month: June

ISBN: 978-9773-681-7

Abstract:

This work introduces the development of a navigation system for a robotic guide. This robot is employed to guide people inside shops, malls or even museums, showing the most relevant things of them. Although the design of robotic guide systems is a well known problem, the deployment in a real, dynamic and likely crowded environment is challenging. This paper introduces our robotic platform and the software structure to carry out a safe navigation inside crowded and dynamic environments.