%0 Journal Article %T A Qualitative Acceleration Model Based on Intervals %A Ester MARTINEZ-MARTIN %A Maria TERESA ESCRIG %A Angel P. DEL POBIL %J ADCAIJ : Advances in Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence Journal %D 2013 %I Universidad de Salamanca %X On the way to autonomous service robots, spatial reasoning plays a main role since it properly deals with problems involving uncertainty. In particular, we are interested in knowing people's pose to avoid collisions. With that aim, in this paper, we present a qualitative acceleration model for robotic applications including representation, reasoning and a practical application. %K Model-based reasoning %K Qualitative reasoning %K Spatial reasoning %U http://campus.usal.es/~revistas_trabajo/index.php/2255-2863/article/view/10393