Design and Development of a Social Robot Framework for Providing an Intelligent Service

Intelligent service robot monitors its surroundings, and provides a service to meet a user's goal. This service could be enhanced or optimized, if it collaborates with other robots in a group. But, it is difficult to make such specific group from the many heterogeneous robots that are different in their functions and structures. This paper describes a social robot framework that outlines a multi-layer structure, which is suitable to make a particular group of robots to solve a given task by collaborating with other robots. Simulated experimentation for grouping is done by generating several heterogeneous robot instances. And the collaboration is done by multi-level task planning mechanism. The result is significant, and further experimentation with physical robot is needed.