RT Journal Article
T1 Feasibility of a robotic walking avatar for social pilgrimage: the first Saint James Way experience
A1 Fondo Ferreiro, Pablo
A1 de Arriba Perez, Francisco
A1 García Méndez, Silvia
A1 Estevez Caldas, Alberto
A1 Perez Vaz, Ruben
A1 Gil Castiñeira, Felipe Jose
A1 González Castaño, Francisco Javier
A1 Lopez Bravo, Cristina
A1 González González, Jaime
A1 Fariña, Karina
K1 3399 Otras Especialidades Tecnológicas
AB In the field of social robotics, there is a growing interest in robotic assistants for culture and tourism, and recent advances in 5G cellular communications, radically improving end-to-end latency and throughput, are key enablers in this regard. The Saint James Way (the Way) to Santiago de Compostela, Spain, is one of the main pilgrimage routes in Christianity. Over 430,000 pilgrims traveled to Santiago in 2022. Many of them cited motivations for travel other than religion, making the Way a major European touristic attraction linking many historical landmarks in Spain. In this article, we present and describe our experience in this scenario with a robotic walking avatar that was teleoperated from Italy (2,000 km away). To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time the feasibility of such an avatar has been quantitatively assessed in terms of teleoperation performance, terrain crossing capacity, and autonomy
PB IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Magazine
SN 2333942X
YR 2024
FD 2024-10
LK http://hdl.handle.net/11093/7684
UL http://hdl.handle.net/11093/7684
LA eng
NO IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Magazine, 10(4): 25-31 (2024)
NO Xunta de Galicia | Ref. ED481B-2022-019
DS Investigo
RD 23-ene-2025