Mabel(the Mobile Table) is a robotic system that can perform waypoint and vision guided navigation, speech generation, speech recognition, person finding, face finding, and face following.
Chris Brown (Advisor)
Jonathan Schmid
Thomas Kollar
Eric Meisner
Victoria Sweetser
David Feil-Seifer
Ben Atwood
Jenine Turner
Diana Calrese
Scott Crag
Habib Chaudhrey
Mike Isman
Micha Elsner
Gautam Altekar
Dasun Peramunage
Chris Brown
Mabel, the Mobile Table
Mabel(the Mobile Table) is a robotic system that can perform waypoint and vision guided navigation, speech generation, speech recognition, person finding, face finding, and face following. Mabel can interact intelligently with humans in two different settings: food and information serving. The robot's architecture is flexible and easily adaptable to other tasks such as search and rescue. Mabel was the winner of the 2002 robot host event at AAAI's 2002 conference in Edmonton, Alberta.
The food serving event involved serving people refreshments in the break area as quickly and elegantly as possible. This event also required the robots to return to a "refill station" where the robot would retrieve more food and serve it to the patrons. The information serving event involved giving people information about the conference. The robot rescue event involved a robot going into a mock disaster scene, finding human victims, mapping the victims' location, and returning safely out of the scene. The robot challenge event required a robot to be dropped off at the conference center, navigate its way to the registration desk, register for the conference, navigate to the auditorium, and give a talk on itself. Mabel was entered in the first three events, namely food serving, information serving, and the robot rescue.
The overall design philosophy was to integrate human interaction with robotic control. The Robot Research Team class is continuing work on project Mabel, and work is on to improve the speech, and vision techniques employed to achieve various targets.
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