Setting Up the Beam for Human-Centered Service Tasks
Utkarsh Patel, Emre Hatay, Mike D'Arcy, Ghazal Zand, and Pooyan Fazli
TL;DR
This paper presents the Beam, a low-cost autonomous mobile service robot enhanced with autonomy, human awareness, and ROS integration, demonstrating perfect success in search and delivery tasks for human-centered services.
Contribution
The paper introduces a set of enhancements to the Beam telepresence system, transforming it into a versatile, research-oriented service robot platform.
Findings
Achieved 100% success rate in target search tasks
Enhanced Beam with autonomy and sensing capabilities
Integrated Beam with ROS for broader research applications
Abstract
We introduce the Beam, a collaborative autonomous mobile service robot, based on SuitableTech's Beam telepresence system. We present a set of enhancements to the telepresence system, including autonomy, human awareness, increased computation and sensing capabilities, and integration with the popular Robot Operating System (ROS) framework. Together, our improvements transform the Beam into a low-cost platform for research on service robots. We examine the Beam on target search and object delivery tasks and demonstrate that the robot achieves a 100% success rate.
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Taxonomy
TopicsSocial Robot Interaction and HRI · Robotics and Automated Systems · Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems