IURO - Social Human-Robot-Interaction in the Streets of Munich

Abstract

The Interactive Urban Robot (IURO) project investigates human-robot-interaction and autonomous robotics in outdoor urban environments. In the examined scenario the IURO robot has to reach a specific destination with the help of information elicited from pedestrians through natural language dialogue and multimodal interaction. Emphasis is put on the social aspects of this scenario, where the robot has to gain information from pedestrians which have no experience with robots. Furthermore, aspects related to navigation and perception in dynamic and complex urban environments are discussed.