Human-robot collaboration in the smart office environment

Abstract

This paper describes human-robot collaboration in the smart office environment, where some cameras and infrared sensors are embedded to support our activities and several manipulators and mobile robots deliver documents and printed-out papers to a worker's room. Such environment is realized by software components including device controller, multiagent programming, a robot access server on the Web, and a remote control browser. These components integrate various office devices and sensors, and a user can control the robots through a cellular phone and a browser.