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Pebbles: An Interactive Configuration Tool for Robot Navigation

Haipeng Mi, Kentaro Ishii, Lei Ma, Natsuda Laokulrat, Masahiko Inami, and Takeo Igarashi

Pebbles

Abstract

This study presents an interactive configuration tool that assists non-expert users to design specific navigation route for mobile robot. The user places active markers, called pebbles, on the floor along the desired route in order to guide the robot to the destination. The active markers establish a navigation network by communicating each other with IR beacon and the robot follows the markers to reach the designated goal. During the installation, a user can get effective feedback from LED indicators and voice prompts, so that the user can immediately understand if the navigation route is appropriately configured as expected. With this tool anyone can enable a simple robot to conduct more functional tasks, such as surveillance and delivery.

Publication

  • Kentaro Ishii, Haipeng Mi, Lei Ma, Natsuda Laokulrat, Masahiko Inami,and Takeo Igarashi,
    "Pebbles: User-Configurable Device Network for Robot Navigation",
    The 14th IFIP TC13 Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT 2013), pp.420-436, 2013.
  • Haipeng Mi, Kentaro Ishii, Lei Ma, Natsuda Laokulrat, Masahiko Inami, and Takeo Igarashi,
    Pebbles: An Interactive Configuration Tool for Indoor Robot Navigation,
    The 25th annual ACM symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2012), Demonstrations, Cambridge, MA, USA, Oct. 7-10.    PDF    YouTube
  • Kentaro Ishii, Akihiko Ishida, Greg Saul, Masahiko Inami, and Takeo Igarashi,
    Active Navigation Landmarks for a service Robot in a Home Environment,
    The 5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI2010), Late Breaking Report, pp.99-100, poster, March 2010. PDF   

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