Kapil Vyas, Ganesh Palaniappan
In an Assistive environment, the need to willfully command a robot to come to some locality is a priority. This requires the robot to have knowledge of its environment. Robots equipped with expensive laser range finder (LRF) stand out from all others, in that they can build maps with a fair amount of precision. Heracleia´s goal is to use its PeopleBot to allow clients give orders like: “Come to the kitchen” via voice or pressing a button. In the pre-processing step, PeopleBot will navigate to create a floor plan. Next, users can set room names that the robot will move to, when asked.
Figure 2: Pioneer Map Builder