Performance evaluation of ambient services by combining robotic frameworks and a smart environment platform

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• 作者：Michael Arndt ; Sebastian Wille ; Luiza de Souza ; V¨ªtor Fortes Rey ; Norbert Wehn ; Karsten Berns
• 关键词：Robotics ; Smart environments ; Frameworks ; Simulation ; Performance evaluation ; Internet of things
• 刊名：Robotics and Autonomous Systems
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：November, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：61
• 期：11
• 页码：1173-1185
• 全文大小：2013 K

文摘

Mobile robots and smart environments are two areas of research that can easily profit from each other. Smart environments, which are spaces unobtrusively equipped with sensors and actuators, providing ambient services to the people living within. Mobile robots inside those smart environments can use the existing infrastructure to increase their performance while decreasing the cost of local sensor systems. On the other side, evaluation of ambient services is often a laborious task. This work presents an approach that simplifies the evaluation by making use of two frameworks from robotics to perform tests in simulated smart environments. A method based on the language as action principle is used to extract realistic behavior of people living in real-world smart environments. Using this data, many different scenarios with varying configurations (different floor layouts, numbers and types of sensors, different number of people and pets) can easily be simulated and the performance of the ambient services evaluated.