Understanding uncertain information in vocal description for creating virtual spatial maps

MIRob (Moratuwa Intelligent Robot): an interactive mobile service robot for domestic environments

Goal: An intelligent service robot is a machine that is able to gather information from the environment and use its knowledge to operate safely in a meaningful and purposive manner. Nowadays, intelligent service robots are developed for emerging areas of robotics application such as elderly care, healthcare, assistance and edutainment. Especially, human friendly intelligent service robots are developed to use as assistive aid for elderly or disabled people. A human friendly intelligent service robot could provide both physical and cognitive assistance for the elderly or disabled peoples. Human friendly robotic systems should have abilities to interact with humans in more human-like manner and human cognitive features should be incorporated into them. Therefore, development of human friendly robotic systems is much more challenging task compared to development of industrial task oriented robots. Through excessive research and analysis, many human friendly robotics systems, which have human cognitive features to some degree, have been developed. However, as per today, developed systems are far below compared to the human cognitive abilities. Therefore, this research project is being conducted with the intention of developing and human friendly service robot for assisting elderly or disabled people in the domestic environment. The research mainly focuses on experience-based learning for achieving human like adaptive friendly capabilities of the service robot.