E-2? - A robot for exhibitions

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E-2? - A robot for exhibitions
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Short Description: A robot to make people come to a stand
Coordinator: AndreaBonarini (andrea.bonarini@polimi.it)
Tutor: AndreaBonarini (andrea.bonarini@polimi.it)
Collaborator:
Students: FrancescoBalzani (francesco.balzani@mail.polimi.it), DavideRizzi ()
Research Area: Robotics
Research Topic: Robot development
Start: 2009/07/27
End: 2010/12/31
Status: Active
Level: Bs
Type: Thesis

Aim of this project is the development of a robot that can operate autonomously at exhibitions and malls to attract people to a given location, by showing interesting behaviors.

The robot first exhibition has been at [Robotica 2009], within [HI-Tech Expo] at [Fiera di Milano], on November 23-25, 2009. Here, the robot had to go around in an area delimited by a white stripe and contact verbally and with gestures people entering the area, in order to attract them to the booth.

The robot body has been implemented in collaboration with [Pupazzia], who has designed and implemented the external part.

Francesco Balzani is in charge of developing the behaviors, using MRT.

Davide Rizzi has implemented the hardware and control SW starting from a Janus base originally developed for [Robocup]

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