Say Cheese!: Experiences with a Robot Photographer

Published in Proceedings of the Fifteenth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2003

The basic Lewis system. We have developed an autonomous robot system that takes well-composed photographs of people at social events, such as weddings and conference receptions. The robot, Lewis, navigates through the environment, opportunistically taking photographs of people. In this paper, we outline the overall architecture of the system and describe how the various components inter-relate. We also describe our experiences of deploying the robot photographer at a number of real-world events. Robots, robot photography

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authors: Zachary Byers and Michael Dixon and Cindy Grimm and William Smart

Authors: Zachary Byers and Michael Dixon and Cindy Grimm and William Smart
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