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Johnny: An Autonomous Service Robot for Domestic Environments

Thomas Breuer; Geovanny R. Giorgana Macedo; Ronny Hartanto; Nico Hochgeschwender; Dirk Holz; Frederik Hegger; Zha Jin; Christian Müller; Jan Paulus; Michael Reckhaus; José Antonio Álvarez Ruiz; Paul G. Plöger; Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar
In: Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems (JIRS), Pages 245-272, Springer Netherlands, 4/2012.

Zusammenfassung

In this article we describe the architecture, algorithms and real-world benchmarks performed by Johnny Jackanapes, an autonomous service robot for domestic environments. Johnny serves as a research and development platform to explore, develop and integrate capabilities required for real-world domestic service applications. We present a control architecture which allows to cope with various and changing domesticservice robot tasks. A software architecture supporting the rapid integration of functionality into a complete system is as well presented. Further, we describe novel and robust algorithms centered around multi-modal human robot interaction, semantic scene understanding and SLAM. Evaluation of the complete system has been performed during the last years in theRoboCup@Home competition where Johnnys outstanding performance led to successful participation. The results and lessons learned of these benchmarks are explained in more detail.