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Experiences with a Barista Robot, FusionBot

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In this paper, we describe the implemented service robot, called FusionBot. The goal of this research is to explore and demonstrate the utility of an interactive service robot in a smart home environment, thereby improving the quality of human life. The robot has four main features: 1) speech recognition, 2) object recognition, 3) object grabbing and fetching and 4) communication with a smart coffee machine. Its software architecture employs a multimodal dialogue system that integrates different components, including spoken dialog system, vision understanding, navigation and smart device gateway. In the experiments conducted during the TechFest 2008 event, the FusionBot successfully demonstrated that it could autonomously serve coffee to visitors on their request. Preliminary survey results indicate that the robot has potential to not only aid in the general robotics but also contribute towards the long term goal of intelligent service robotics in smart home environment.

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  1. Institute for Infocomm Research, 1 Fusionopolis Way, #21-01, Connexis, Singapore, 138632

    Dilip Kumar Limbu, Yeow Kee Tan, Chern Yuen Wong, Ridong Jiang, Hengxin Wu, Liyuan Li, Eng Hoe Kah, Xinguo Yu, Dong Li & Haizhou Li

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  1. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Korea

    Jong-Hwan Kim

  2. National University of Singapore, 117576, Singapore

    Shuzhi Sam Ge

  3. National University of Singapore, Singapore

    Prahlad Vadakkepat , Abdullah Al Manum  & Ryohei Nakatsu ,  & 

  4. Technische Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

    Norbert Jesse

  5. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, 4 Engineering Drive 3, P.O. Box, 117576, Singapore

    Sadasivan Puthusserypady K

  6. Heinz Nixdorf Institute, System and Circuit Technology, University of Paderborn, Fuerstenallee 11, 33102, Paderborn, Germany

    Ulrich Rückert

  7. School of Software Engineering and Data Communications, Queensland University of Technology, P.O. Box, Brisbane, Australia

    Joaquin Sitte

  8. Heinz Nixdorf Institute, University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany

    Ulf Witkowski

  9. The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

    Thomas Braunl

  10. Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba, P.O. Box, R3T 2N2, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

    Jacky Baltes  & John Anderson  & 

  11. Tamkang University, Taipei, Taiwan

    Ching-Chang Wong

  12. Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Dept. of Education in Technology & Science, 32000, Haifa, Israel

    Igor Verner

  13. Trinity College, Hartford, CT, USA

    David Ahlgren

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Limbu, D.K.et al. (2009). Experiences with a Barista Robot, FusionBot. In: Kim, JH.,et al. Progress in Robotics. FIRA 2009. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 44. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03986-7_17

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