MIRANA - A mobile robotic assistant
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Abstract
MIRANA - the mobile intelligent robot agent for navigation and assistance
Robots and autonomous intelligent systems have an ever-increasing influence on various areas of life. For example, they are used in industry, logistics, medicine, or increasingly in the private sector.
In this lecture we present MIRANA (Mobile Intelligent Robotic Agent for Navigation and Assistance). A self-propelled language assistant that can be used as a navigation aid for existing specialist staff in clinics, nursing homes and homes for the elderly, but also in the retail trade.
MIRANA is based on three main components: the Robot Operating System (ROS), a deep learning model (Tensorflow) for Hotword-detection and the Watson Assistant. ROS coordinates and controls the components needed for navigation and scheduling. Hotword-detection ensures that the robot recognizes when it is being addressed offline, i.e. without a connection to the Internet. A connection to the Watson Assistant is then established. The Watson Assistant is a cloud-based assistance system that captures customer/patient requests via spoken language, processes them intelligently and responds accordingly.
In this talk you will get an overview of the relevant topics which are necessary for the development of the presented robot assistant.
The slides from the talk can be found here and the a video of the talk can be found here.
Nils Rottmann
Team Lead for Robotics & Autonomous Systems
With September 2021, Nils Rottmann started as a Software Developer/Product Owner at the Hako GmbH. He studied Theoretical Mechanical Engineering at the Hamburg University of Technology, Germany and holds a PhD in Robotics from the University of Luebeck, Germany, In his PhD with the title “Smart Sensor, Navigation and Learning Strategies for low-cost lawn care Systems”, he developed low-cost sensor systems and investigated probabilistic learning and modeling approaches. Currenlty, he works as a Team Lead for the robotic section at the Hako GmbH.