Michele The Robot Tour Guide
Format
SOECS Senior Project Demonstration
Faculty Mentor Name
Cherian Mathews
Faculty Mentor Department
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Abstract/Artist Statement
Michele, under the guidance of a student staff, can give a tour of the John T. Chambers Technology Center (CTC).
New and prospective students receive tours of UOP’s engineering facilities on a daily basis. Unfortunately, these tours are often conducted by student staff that have little experience of the engineering program. It is important to show potential students an application of what can be learned through the engineering program here at Pacific. The design is meant to aid current student staff in a non-invasive manner, while relaying accurate information to tour groups. This design utilizes Google Cloud Artificial Intelligence to provide real time speech interactions with users. The system is able to highlight important features of the tour, as well as answer questions from visitors within the tour groups. This alleviates the pressure on the student tour guide to remember complicated details about Pacific’s School of Engineering and Computer Science.
Currently, the system follows a student tour guide by tracking them while it’s informing a tour group about the program and locations within CTC. Future work of the project will include implementing features to make the robot fully autonomous. This will include the use of mapping and position tracking.
In this demonstration, users will be able to ask Michele a variety of questions about the engineering program and the CTC building. Users, during the demonstration, will also be able to act as the student tour guide and have Michele follow them.
Location
School of Engineering & Computer Science
Start Date
5-5-2018 3:30 PM
End Date
5-5-2018 4:30 PM
Michele The Robot Tour Guide
School of Engineering & Computer Science
Michele, under the guidance of a student staff, can give a tour of the John T. Chambers Technology Center (CTC).
New and prospective students receive tours of UOP’s engineering facilities on a daily basis. Unfortunately, these tours are often conducted by student staff that have little experience of the engineering program. It is important to show potential students an application of what can be learned through the engineering program here at Pacific. The design is meant to aid current student staff in a non-invasive manner, while relaying accurate information to tour groups. This design utilizes Google Cloud Artificial Intelligence to provide real time speech interactions with users. The system is able to highlight important features of the tour, as well as answer questions from visitors within the tour groups. This alleviates the pressure on the student tour guide to remember complicated details about Pacific’s School of Engineering and Computer Science.
Currently, the system follows a student tour guide by tracking them while it’s informing a tour group about the program and locations within CTC. Future work of the project will include implementing features to make the robot fully autonomous. This will include the use of mapping and position tracking.
In this demonstration, users will be able to ask Michele a variety of questions about the engineering program and the CTC building. Users, during the demonstration, will also be able to act as the student tour guide and have Michele follow them.