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This paper reports the project of a shopping mall guide robot, named KeJia, which is designed for customer navigation, information providing and entertainment in a real environment. Our introduction focuses on the designs of robot’s hardware and software, faced challenges and the multimodal interaction methods including using a mobile phone app. In order to adapt the current localization and navigation techniques to such large and complex shopping mall environment, a series of related improvements and new methods are proposed. The robot is deployed in a large shopping mall for field test and stable operation for a fairly long time. The result demonstrates the stability, validity and feasibility of this robot system, and gives a positive reward to our original design motivation.
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Chen, Y., Wu, F., Shuai, W., Wang, N., Chen, R., Chen, X. (2015). KeJia Robot–An Attractive Shopping Mall Guider. In: Tapus, A., André, E., Martin, JC., Ferland, F., Ammi, M. (eds) Social Robotics. ICSR 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9388. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25554-5_15
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