Integration of the humanoid robot Nao inside a smart home : a case study

Abstract

This paper presents a case study demonstrat-ing the integration of the humanoid robotic platform Nao within a Network Robot System (NRS) application. The specific scenario of in-terest takes place in a smart home environment; the task being that of bringing a can of soda from a fridge to a human user. We use this con-crete scenario to evaluate how the performance of such a robot can be affected by being embed-ded inside an intelligent domestic environment. This study points out that, by cooperating with different components on the network the over-all performance of the robot is increased.