Section: New Results

Limits and performances of embedded RGBD sensors on mobile robots for social interaction

Participants : Amaury Nègre, Dominique Vaufreydaz [correspondant] .

While working on sociably acceptable companion robots, we highlighted some problems of embedding RGBD sensors on mobile robots. Performances of our algorithms can be severely decreased by intrinsic parameters of the robot: linear and angle speeds, height and angle of view of the mounted RGBD sensor, etc. We are currently conducting experiments on influence of these parameters on our perception of humans within a home-like environment. As an extra expected results, we will provide to the research community a corpus that can be used as benchmark for several tasks in mobility: 2D and 3D face detection, body and skeleton detection, fall detection and engagement detection.

Figure 7. Robotic platform within the home-like environment for mobile RGBD experiments.