Summary: Autonomous Robots 15, 299­316, 2003
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Tele-Presence in Populated Exhibitions Through Web-Operated
Mobile Robots
WOLFRAM BURGARD
Computer Science Department, University of Freiburg, Germany
burgard@informatik.uni-freiburg.de
PANOS TRAHANIAS
Foundation for Research and Technology--Hellas (FORTH) and University of Crete, Greece
DIRK H ¨AHNEL
Computer Science Department, University of Freiburg, Germany
MARK MOORS AND DIRK SCHULZ
Department of Computer Science, University of Bonn, Germany
HARIS BALTZAKIS
Foundation for Research and Technology--Hellas (FORTH) and University of Crete, Greece
ANTONIS ARGYROS
Foundation for Research and Technology--Hellas (FORTH), Greece
Abstract. This paper presents techniques that facilitate mobile robots to be deployed as interactive agents in
populated environments such as museum exhibitions or trade shows. The mobile robots can be tele-operated over
the Internet and, this way, provide remote access to distant users. Throughout this paper we describe several key

Source: Argyros, Antonis - Foundation of Research and Technology, Hellas & Department of Computer Science, University of Crete
Baltzakis, Haris - Institute of Computer Science, Foundation of Research and Technology, Hellas
Trahanias, Panos - Institute of Computer Science, Foundation of Research and Technology, Hellas

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