The paper gives a comprehensive overview of our Shop** Guide project, which aims at
the development of interactive mobile shop** companion robots for everyday use in …

This paper describes the user-centered design and evaluation process of a humanoid
mobile shop** robot named TOOMAS that assists customers of home improvement stores …

The paper describes progress achieved in our long-term research project ShopBot, which
aims at the development of an intelligent and interactive mobile shop** assistant for …

In this paper, we present a monocular, texture-based method for person detection and upper-
body orientation classification. We build on a commonly used approach for person …

This paper addresses the problem of finding people in domestic environments utilizing a
mobile robot. Companion robots, which should provide different services, must be able to …

This paper presents a model based system for a mobile robot to find an optimal pose for the
observation of a person in indoor living environments. We define the observation pose as a …

In this paper, we built a behavior model for the Ubiquitous Display (UD) to provide a
situation oriented service to the users in a large-scale public facility. The UD is a mobile …

Kurzfassung Im Zentrum dieser Dissertation steht die soziale Assistenzrobotik. In den letzten
Jahren hat die Bedeutung dieses Teilgebietes der mobilen Robotik stark zugenommen und …

In this paper, we propose the usage of a Wizard of Oz to facilitate the first steps towards a
tour-guide robot in a real world environment. In particular, we want to emphasize two …

In the last 20 years there have been major advances in autonomous robotics. In IoT (Industry
4.0), mobile robots require more intuitive interaction possibilities with humans in order to …