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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2024

Development of a Personal Guide Robot That Leads a Guest Hand-in-Hand While Keeping a Distance.

Hironobu Wakabayashi, Yutaka Hiroi, Kenzaburo Miyawaki, Akinori Ito

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Hironobu WakabayashiGraduate School of Robotics and Design, Osaka Institute of Technology, Osaka 530-8568, Japan.
Yutaka HiroiFaculty of Robotics and Design, Osaka Institute of Technology, Osaka 530-8568, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-4524-2460
Kenzaburo MiyawakiFaculty of Information Sciences and Technology, Osaka Institute of Technology, Hirakata 573-0196, Japan.
Akinori ItoGraduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8579, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-8835-7877

Funding

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science JP20K04389
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper proposes a novel tour guide robot, "ASAHI ReBorn", which can lead a guest by hand one-on-one while maintaining a proper distance from the guest. The robot uses a stretchable arm interface to hold the guest's hand and adjusts its speed according to the guest's pace. The robot also follows a given guide path accurately using the Robot Side method, a robot navigation method that follows a pre-defined path quickly and accurately. In addition, a control method is introduced that limits the angular velocity of the robot to avoid the robot's quick turn while guiding the guest. We evaluated the performance and usability of the proposed robot through experiments and user studies. The tour-guiding experiment revealed that the proposed method that keeps distance between the robot and the guest using the stretchable arm enables the guests to look around the exhibits compared with the condition where the robot moved at a constant velocity.

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guide robothuman–robot interactionmobile robotrobot interfaces

Identifiers

PMID38610562
PMCPMC11014307

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