Functionalities and Requirements of an Autonomous Shopping Vehicle for People with Reduced Mobility

António Neves, Daniel Campos, Fabio Duarte, Inês Domingues, Joana Santos, João Leão, José Xavier, Luís Matos, Manuel Camarneiro, Marcelo Penas, Maria Miranda, Ricardo Silva, Tiago Esteves

2017

Abstract

This paper concerns a robot to assist people in retail shopping scenarios, called the wGO. The robot’s behaviour is based in a vision-guided approach based on user-following. The wGO brings numerous advantages and a higher level of comfort, since the user does not need to worry about controlling the shopping cart. In addition, this paper introduces the wGOs functionalities and requirements to enable the robot to successfully perform personal assistance while the user is shopping in a safe way. A user satisfaction survey is also presented. Based on the highly encouraging results, some conclusions and guidelines towards the future full deployment of the wGO in commercial environments are drawn.

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Neves A., Campos D., Duarte F., Domingues I., Santos J., Leão J., Xavier J., Matos L., Camarneiro M., Penas M., Miranda M., Silva R. and Esteves T. (2017). Functionalities and Requirements of an Autonomous Shopping Vehicle for People with Reduced Mobility . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems - Volume 1: VEHITS, ISBN 978-989-758-242-4, pages 373-380. DOI: 10.5220/0006385903730380


in Bibtex Style

@conference{vehits17,
author={António Neves and Daniel Campos and Fabio Duarte and Inês Domingues and Joana Santos and João Leão and José Xavier and Luís Matos and Manuel Camarneiro and Marcelo Penas and Maria Miranda and Ricardo Silva and Tiago Esteves},
title={Functionalities and Requirements of an Autonomous Shopping Vehicle for People with Reduced Mobility},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems - Volume 1: VEHITS,},
year={2017},
pages={373-380},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006385903730380},
isbn={978-989-758-242-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems - Volume 1: VEHITS,
TI - Functionalities and Requirements of an Autonomous Shopping Vehicle for People with Reduced Mobility
SN - 978-989-758-242-4
AU - Neves A.
AU - Campos D.
AU - Duarte F.
AU - Domingues I.
AU - Santos J.
AU - Leão J.
AU - Xavier J.
AU - Matos L.
AU - Camarneiro M.
AU - Penas M.
AU - Miranda M.
AU - Silva R.
AU - Esteves T.
PY - 2017
SP - 373
EP - 380
DO - 10.5220/0006385903730380