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ICAI
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Expectancy-Based Robot Localization Through Context Evaluation
Agents that operate in a real-world environment have to process an abundance of information, which may be ambiguous or noisy. We present a method inspired by cognitive research tha...
Maria E. Niessen, Gert Kootstra, Sjoerd de Jong, T...
IADIS
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Rendezvous-based associations: Language abstractions for robot collaboration
IONS FOR ROBOT COLLABORATION Bent Bruun Kristensen Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute, University of Southern Denmark Campusvej 55, DK-5230, Odense M, Denmark Collaboration between...
Bent Bruun Kristensen
HRI
2009
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
I would choose the other card: humanoid robot gives an advice
This article reports on a user study conducted to asses the credibility of a humanoid robot. The study set-up was based on the "Monty Hall Problem". Overall 13 people be...
Astrid Weiss, Roland Buchner, Thomas Scherndl, Man...
SOCIALCOM
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Development of Communication Model for Social Robots Based on Mobile Service
This paper describes an interactive social agent platform which examines anthropomorphic robot features in the mobile phone usage context. Our system is smart phone based robot age...
Ji-Dong Yim, Sungkuk Chun, Keechul Jung, Christoph...
SECON
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Back-Tracking Based Sensor Deployment by a Robot Team
Existing solutions to carrier-based sensor placement by a single robot, in a bounded unknown region of interest (ROI), do not guarantee full area coverage and/or do not terminate. ...
Greg Fletcher, Xu Li, Amiya Nayak, Ivan Stojmenovi...
KI
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Towards Opportunistic Action Selection in Human-Robot Cooperation
A robot that is to assist humans in everyday activities should not only be efficient, but also choose actions that are understandable for a person. One characteristic of human task...
Thibault Kruse, Alexandra Kirsch
IVA
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
"Why Can't We Be Friends?" An Empathic Game Companion for Long-Term Interaction
The ability of artificial companions (virtual agents or robots) to establish meaningful relationships with users is still limited. In humans, a key aspect of such ability is empath...
Iolanda Leite, Samuel Mascarenhas, André Pe...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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13 years 2 months ago
Learning reliable and efficient navigation with a humanoid
Reliable and efficient navigation with a humanoid robot is a difficult task. First, the motion commands are executed rather inaccurately due to backlash in the joints or foot slipp...
Stefan Oßwald, Armin Hornung, Maren Bennewit...
ICES
2010
Springer
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13 years 2 months ago
Evolution and Analysis of a Robot Controller Based on a Gene Regulatory Network
Abstract. This paper explores the application of an artificial developmental system (ADS) to the field of evolutionary robotics by investigating the capability of a gene regulatory...
Martin Trefzer, Tüze Kuyucu, Julian F. Miller...
ICAI
2010
13 years 2 months ago
A Way to Put Empathy in a Robot
A report on the experiments carried out with our robot in the Emotirob project is given in this paper, in which we show how we build emotion and personality in the robot. With chi...
Dominique Duhaut