TY - JOUR T1 - CompaRob: The Shopping Cart Assistance Robot JF - International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks Y1 - 2016 A1 - Sales, Jorge A1 - Martí, Jose V. A1 - Marin, Raul A1 - Enric Cervera A1 - Sanz, Pedro J. AB -

Technology has recently been developed which offers an excellent opportunity to design systems with the ability to help people in their own houses. In particular, assisting elderly people in their environments is something that can significantly improve their quality of life. However, helping elderly people outside their usual environment is also necessary, to help them to carry out daily tasks like shopping. In this paper we present a person-following shopping cart assistance robot, capable of helping elderly people to carry products in a supermarket. First of all, the paper presents a survey of related systems that perform this task, using different approaches, such as attachable modules and computer vision. After that, the paper describes in detail the proposed system and its main features. The cart uses ultrasonic sensors and radio signals to provide a simple and effective person localization and following method. Moreover, the cart can be connected to a portable device like a smartphone or tablet, thus providing ease of use to the end user. The prototype has been tested in a grocery store, while simulations have been done to analyse its scalability in larger spaces where multiple robots could coexist.

VL - 12 UR - http://dsn.sagepub.com/content/12/2/4781280.abstract ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Multi-Sensor Person Following in Low-Visibility Scenarios JF - Sensors Y1 - 2010 A1 - Sales, Jorge A1 - Marin, Raul A1 - Enric Cervera A1 - Rodriguez, Sergio A1 - Perez, Javier VL - 10 UR - ://WOS:000285708700024 N1 - Times Cited: 3 3 ER - TY - BOOK T1 - Agents at Play: Off-the-shelf Software for Practical Multi-robot Applications T2 - 2008 Ieee/Rsj International Conference on Robots and Intelligent Systems, Vols 1-3, Conference Proceedings Y1 - 2008 A1 - Enric Cervera A1 - Sales, Jorge A1 - Nomdedeu, Leo A1 - Marin, Raul A1 - Gazi, Veysel JF - 2008 Ieee/Rsj International Conference on Robots and Intelligent Systems, Vols 1-3, Conference Proceedings SN - 978-1-4244-2057-5 UR - ://WOS:000259998201215 N1 - Times Cited: 0 Gazi, Veysel/M-6100-2013 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems Sep 22-26, 2008 Nice, FRANCE IEEE; Robot Soc Japan; IEEE Robot & Automat Soc; IEEE Ind Elect Soc; Soc Instrument & Control Engineers; Inst Natl Rech Informat & Automat; CNRS; Inst Control, Roibot & Syst ER -