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Kaiser, Jörg; Schulze, Michael; Zug, Sebastian; Cardeira,; Carreira,
Sentient Objects for Designing and Controlling Service Robots (Inproceeding)
17th International Federation of Automatic Control World Congress (IFAC’08), pp. 8315-8320, Seoul, Korea, 2008.
(Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: Robotic, Sentient)
@inproceedings{ EOS-2008.000-KCSZ,
title = {Sentient Objects for Designing and Controlling Service Robots},
author = {Jörg Kaiser and Michael Schulze and Sebastian Zug and C. Cardeira and F. Carreira},
year = {2008},
date = {2008-07-21},
booktitle = {17th International Federation of Automatic Control World Congress (IFAC’08)},
pages = {8315-8320},
address = {Seoul, Korea},
abstract = {Services related to healthcare and the support for elderly people become more and more important. Autonomous or semi-autonomous robots may play an important role in this area. From a control system point of view these robots are networks of distributed smart components to perceive their environment and react on it in real time. The problem of developing or extending such a robot often is that the designer has to start from scratch struggling with low level issues, where reusability of already designed components would be highly desirable. The paper describes a robot application in the area of a meals distribution service that combines two design worlds. One is the conventional world of modelling the functional properties without any structural considerations, the other is the world of cooperating sentient objects. We explain how the notion of sentient objects will assist the design, simulation and also later extensions and adaptations of the robot.},
keywords = {Robotic, Sentient}
}
Services related to healthcare and the support for elderly people become more and more important. Autonomous or semi-autonomous robots may play an important role in this area. From a control system point of view these robots are networks of distributed smart components to perceive their environment and react on it in real time. The problem of developing or extending such a robot often is that the designer has to start from scratch struggling with low level issues, where reusability of already designed components would be highly desirable. The paper describes a robot application in the area of a meals distribution service that combines two design worlds. One is the conventional world of modelling the functional properties without any structural considerations, the other is the world of cooperating sentient objects. We explain how the notion of sentient objects will assist the design, simulation and also later extensions and adaptations of the robot.
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