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Probabilistic Algorithms and the Interactive Museum Tour-Guide Robot Minerva
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This paper describes Minerva, an interactive tour-guide robot that was successfully deployed in a Smithsonian museum. Minerva’s software is pervasively probabilistic, relying on explicit representations of uncertainty in perception and control. During 2 weeks of operation, the robot interacted with thousands of people, both in the museum and through the Web, traversing more than 44 km at speeds of up to 163 cm/sec in the unmodified museum.
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- Thrun, S., Beetz, M., Bennewitz, M., Burgard, W., Cremers, A. B., Dellaert, F., Fox, D., Hähnel, D., Rosenberg, C., Roy, N., Schulte, J., & Schulz, D.
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- The International Journal of Robotics Research
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- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2000-11
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 972-999
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- 0278-3649 (ISSN-L)
- 1741-3176
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- W2170903322
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- References
- 10
- FWCI
- 39.65
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- en
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