Abstract-Interacting with humans is one of the main challenges for mobile robots in a human inhabited environment. To enable adaptive behavior, a robot needs to recognize touch gestures and/or the proximity to interacting individuals. Moreover, a robot interacting with two or more humans usually needs to distinguish between …

Abstract-It remains one of the main challenges for mobile robots in a human inhabited environment to interact with surrounding individuals. Usually, recognizing touch gestures, perceiving proximity information, or distinguishing between individuals is both a cost and configuration intensive task. In this demonstration we utilize inexpensive Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE …