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Domotic Robotic Cleaners are autonomous devices that are designed to operate almost
entirely unattended. In this paper we propose a system that aims to evaluate the performance
of such devices by analysis of their trails. This concept of trails is central to our approach,
and it encompasses the traditional notion of a path followed by a robot between arbitrary
numbers of points in a physical space. We enrich trails with context-specific metadata, such
as proximity to landmarks, frequency of visitation, duration, etc. We then process the trail
data collected by the robots, we store it an appropriate data structure and derive useful
statistical information from the raw data.
The usefulness of the derived information is twofold: it can primarily be used to audit the
performance of the robotic cleaner –for example, to give an accurate indication of how well a
space is covered (cleaned). And secondarily information can be analyzed in real-time to
affect the behavior of specific robots – for example to notify a robot that specific areas have
not been adequately covered.
Towards our first goal, we have developed and evaluated a prototype of our system that
uses a particular commercially available robotic cleaner. Our implementation deploys adhoc
wireless local networking capability available through a surrogate device mounted onto
this commodity robot; the device senses relative proximity to a grid of RFID tags attached to
the floor. We report on the performance of this system in experiments conducted in a
laboratory environment, which highlight the advantages and limitations of our approach.

목차

Abstract
 1. Introduction
 2. Motivation
 3. Augmented Smart Homes
 4. Trail-based Auditing and Coordination
 5. High-level description of the coordination engine
 6. Experimental Evaluation
 References

저자

• D. Papadogkonas [ Birkbeck College, University of London ]
• M. Zoumboulakis [ Birkbeck College, University of London ]
• Jenson Taylor [ Birkbeck College, University of London ]
• Mark Levene [ Birkbeck College, University of London ]
• George Roussos [ Birkbeck College, University of London ]

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• 간행물명

  International Journal of Smart Home

• 간기

  격월간

• pISSN

  1975-4094

• 수록기간

  2008~2016

• 십진분류

  KDC 505 DDC 605