Navigation and obstacle avoidance: a case study using Pepper robot
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Silva, Joao R.; Simao, Miguel; Mendes, Nuno; Neto, Pedro
- Source
- IECON 2019 - 45th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Industrial Electronics Society, IECON 2019 - 45th Annual Conference of the IEEE. 1:5263-5268 Oct, 2019
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Engineering Profession
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Robotics and Control Systems
Signal Processing and Analysis
Transportation
Robot kinematics
Gesture recognition
Navigation
Collision avoidance
Mobile robots
Autonomous robots
Obstacle avoidance
Pepper
Robot
- Language
- ISSN
- 2577-1647
In this paper we present a novel strategy and implementation of autonomous navigation for the Pepper robot. The proposed solution is modular and relies on the proper integration of existing Pepper functionalities. The human interacts with the robot using voice and/or gesture commands to setup the robot functionalities. An example use case demonstrates the ability of the robot to navigate in office environment and grasp an object to place in a target location. The robot is also able to avoid obstacles while navigating.