Design of autonomous family companion robot based on ROS

Abstract

Aiming at the problem of left-behind children, empty-nest elderly, and people with reduced mobility, an autonomous family companion robot was designed. Based on the architecture of robot operating system(ROS), firstly, an autonomous mobile family companion robot was built with Jetson TX1 as the core, then the software was designed, which makes it not only able to communicate with people in natural language, but also use eye expressions and humanoid upper limbs for physical communication, and realize human-machine interaction through User Interface(UI). The rationality of the robot design is verified by the physical test, and the robot can meet the company work of daily family and continue to be developed to do more work.

Keywords

• family companion robot
• ros
• natural language
• body communication
• ui