Social and Service Robots Deployed for Social Distancing - Optimization and Placement

Amin Majd; Dennis Biström; Christa Tigerstedt; Leonardo Espinosa-Leal

doi:10.1109/iceccme52200.2021.9591050

Social and Service Robots Deployed for Social Distancing - Optimization and Placement

Amin Majd, Dennis Biström, Christa Tigerstedt, Leonardo Espinosa-Leal

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Arcada University of Applied Sciences

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Abstract

Autonomous humanoid robots are increasingly integrated into our everyday life even if we can still consider them an unusual sight, especially in the Nordics. Autonomous robots of all kinds, various services and social robots, industrial and medical robots perform a broad spectrum of tasks alongside humans. Today, robots can play influential roles during pandemic situations where the amount of human contact could be decreased or avoided. This paper presents a heuristic approach that monitors an area by closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras to monitor the social distancing between groups and people. Based on the CCTV footage, an algorithm makes a decision that presents better placement for people or groups. Finally, a robot guides the person and groups placed too close to each other to the new location generated by the heuristic method.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2021 International Conference on Electrical, Computer, Communications and Mechatronics Engineering (ICECCME)
Publisher	IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-6654-1262-9
ISBN (Print)	978-1-6654-2943-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/iceccme52200.2021.9591050
Publication status	Published - 7 Oct 2021
MoE publication type	A4 Article in a conference publication
Event	2021 International Conference on Electrical, Computer, Communications and Mechatronics Engineering (ICECCME) - Mauritius, Mauritius Duration: 7 Oct 2021 → 8 Oct 2021

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Conference	2021 International Conference on Electrical, Computer, Communications and Mechatronics Engineering (ICECCME)
Country/Territory	Mauritius
City	Mauritius
Period	7/10/21 → 8/10/21

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Autonomous humanoid robots
HRI
Heuristics
Optimization
Social distancing

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Majd, A., Biström, D., Tigerstedt, C., & Espinosa-Leal, L. (2021). Social and Service Robots Deployed for Social Distancing - Optimization and Placement. In 2021 International Conference on Electrical, Computer, Communications and Mechatronics Engineering (ICECCME) IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. https://doi.org/10.1109/iceccme52200.2021.9591050

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Majd, A, Biström, D, Tigerstedt, C & Espinosa-Leal, L 2021, Social and Service Robots Deployed for Social Distancing - Optimization and Placement. in 2021 International Conference on Electrical, Computer, Communications and Mechatronics Engineering (ICECCME). IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, 2021 International Conference on Electrical, Computer, Communications and Mechatronics Engineering (ICECCME), Mauritius, Mauritius, 7/10/21. https://doi.org/10.1109/iceccme52200.2021.9591050

Social and Service Robots Deployed for Social Distancing - Optimization and Placement. / Majd, Amin; Biström, Dennis; Tigerstedt, Christa et al.
2021 International Conference on Electrical, Computer, Communications and Mechatronics Engineering (ICECCME). IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, 2021.

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