Mobile robot for retail inventory using RFID

J Zhang, Y Lyu, T Roppel, J Patton… - 2016 IEEE …, 2016‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of RFID technology is increasing in retail stores, because it improves the
performance of automated checkout, inventory and theft detection systems. In this paper, we …

Laser-based people detection and obstacle avoidance for a hospital transport robot

K Zheng, F Wu, X Chen - Sensors, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
This paper describes the development of a laser-based people detection and obstacle
avoidance algorithm for a differential-drive robot, which is used for transporting materials …

Service robot anthropomorphism and interface design for emotion in human-robot interaction

T Zhang, B Zhu, L Lee, D Kaber - 2008 IEEE International …, 2008‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
There has been growing interest in both develo** and implementing service robots for
health care and home environments. In addition to a variety of functions supported by robotic …

An affordance and distance minimization based method for computing object orientations for robot human handovers

WP Chan, MKXJ Pan, EA Croft, M Inaba - International Journal of Social …, 2020‏ - Springer
The ability to hand over objects to humans is an important skill for service robots. However,
determining the proper object pose for handover is a challenging task. Our approach, based …

Characterization of handover orientations used by humans for efficient robot to human handovers

WP Chan, MKXJ Pan, EA Croft… - 2015 IEEE/RSJ …, 2015‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To enable robots to learn handover orientations from observing natural handovers, we
conduct a user study to measure and compare natural handover orientations with giver …

[PDF][PDF] Robot based logistics system for hospitals-survey

K Niechwiadowicz, Z Khan - IDT Workshop on interesting results …, 2008‏ - researchgate.net
This paper is a survey on autonomous hospital logistics systems. We present commercial
products that are successfully installed in the hospitals and research projects proposed by …

Modelling a turtlebot3 based delivery system for a smart hospital in gazebo

R Safin, R Lavrenov, KH Hsia, E Maslak… - … on Control and …, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The design of a “smart hospital” environment is described in this paper. Mobile ground
robots perform transportation tasks between multiple stations located in different rooms …

Determining proper grasp configurations for handovers through observation of object movement patterns and inter-object interactions during usage

WP Chan, Y Kakiuchi, K Okada… - 2014 IEEE/RSJ …, 2014‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a method for enabling robots to determine appropriate grasp configurations for
handovers-ie, where to grasp, and how to orient an object when handing it over. In our …

Design of a robotic automation system for transportation of goods in hospitals

AG Ozkil, S Dawids, Z Fan… - … Intelligence in Robotics …, 2007‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Hospitals face with heavy traffic of goods everyday, where transportation tasks are mainly
carried by human. Analysis of the current situation of transportation in a typical hospital …

Implementation of a robot-human object handover controller on a compliant underactuated hand using joint position error measurements for grip force and load force …

WP Chan, I Kumagai, S Nozawa… - … on Robotics and …, 2014‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Object handover is a basic task in many human-robot interactive scenarios and therefore, it
is important for assistive robots to be able to perform proper handovers. We previously …