Online Paper: Franklin-ICAFGR96
Happy Patrons make better tippers: Creating a Robot Waiter using
Perseus and the Animate Agent Architecture
David Franklin, Michael J. Swain, Roger E. Kahn & R. James Firby
As autonomous robots become increasingly adept at performing simple
tasks like moving from place to place and picking up and delivering
objects, it is becoming apparent that an important area of robotic
research is that of developing natural interfaces for controlling
them. In the context of building a robot ``waiter'', we demonstrate
the use of the Perseus architecture for gesture recognition, teamed
with the Animate Agent architecture for tightly coupled perception
and action. Of particular significance is the ease of implementing
this task utilizing the architectures and routines we have already
created for other tasks.
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