Development of intelligent behaviors for a mobile robot

Mobile robots are gaining more effect in our lives. However, to become a part of our daily life, mobile robot should be socially accepted by humans. Evidently, the acceptance rate will increase as human-robot interaction gets closer to human-human types of interaction. In this research, a group of independent human-like behaviors and reflection functions are developed and implemented on a RWI B-14 mobile robot. The robot, called "TourMate", uses the Linux operating system and has distributed programming capability provided by its software structure called BeeSoft. The development of intelligent behaviors will improve TourMate's current human interaction. Avoidance functions were developed previously and some more behavior and reflection functions are currently under development. This paper presents the design, implementation, and simulation results as well as testing results conducted on TourMate.