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Chapter 2
State of the Art
Advances in computer engineering artificial intelligence, and high–tech
evolutions from electronics and mechanics have led to breakthroughs in
robotic technology [23]. Today, autonomous mobile robots can track a person’s
location, provide contextually appropriate information, and act in response
to spoken commands.
Robotics has been involved in humanlives from industrydomain to daily
life applications such as home helper or, recently, entertainment robots. The
latter introduced a new aspect of robotics, entertainment, which is intended
to make humans enjoy their lives from a various kind of view-points quite
different from industrial applications [17].
Interaction with robot is thought of a relatively new field, but the idea
of building lifelike machines that entertain people has fascinated us for hundreds
of years since the first ancient mechanical automaton. Up to our days,
there have been major improvements in the development of robots.
We will review the literature for the robots that are related with our design.
We divided the review in subsections like Locomotion, Motion Models,
Navigation, and Interaction and Games.
2.1 Locomotion
There exists a great variety of possible ways to move a robot, which makes
the selection of a robot’s approach to motion an important aspect of mobile
robot design. The most important of these are wheels, tracks and legs [33].