Towards Software Development For Social Robotics Systems
This work addresses usability and maintenance challenges in social robotics, particularly for humanoid robots interacting with humans, but it is incremental as it applies existing web-based methods to a new domain.
The paper tackled software development for social robotics systems by creating a web-based solution for managing robot-guided tours, providing user recommendations, and enabling visual analysis of tour data, implemented on the PAL REEM humanoid robot.
In this paper we introduce the core results of the project on software development for social robotics systems. The usability of maintenance and control features is crucial for many kinds of systems, but in the case of social robotics we also have to take into account that (1) the humanoid robot physically interacts with humans, (2) the conversation with children might have different requirements in comparison to the conversation with adults. The results of our work were implement for the humanoid PAL REEM robot, but their core ideas can be applied for other types of humanoid robots. We developed a web-based solution that supports the management of robot-guided tours, provides recommendations for the users as well as allows for a visual analysis of the data on previous tours.