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ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Autonomous operation of novel elevators for robot navigation
— Although robot navigation in indoor environments has achieved great success, robots are unable to fully navigate these spaces without the ability to operate elevators, includin...
Ellen Klingbeil, Blake Carpenter, Olga Russakovsky...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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A robot companion for inclusive games: A user-centred design perspective
— This article presents the design of Iromec, a modular robot companion tailored towards engaging in social exchanges with children with different disabilities with the aim to em...
Patrizia Marti, Leonardo Giusti
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Priming transformational planning with observations of human activities
— People perform daily activities in many different ways. When setting a table, they might use a tray, stack plates, stack cups on plates, leave the doors of a cupboard open when...
Moritz Tenorth, Michael Beetz
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Variable resolution decomposition for robotic navigation under a POMDP framework
— Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) offer a powerful mathematical framework for making optimal action choices in noisy and/or uncertain environments, in par...
Robert Kaplow, Amin Atrash, Joelle Pineau
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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A voice-commandable robotic forklift working alongside humans in minimally-prepared outdoor environments
— One long-standing challenge in robotics is the realization of mobile autonomous robots able to operate safely in existing human workplaces in a way that their presence is accep...
Seth J. Teller, Matthew R. Walter, Matthew E. Anto...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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Soft-tissue injury in robotics
— Up to now, mostly blunt human-robot impacts were investigated in the robotics literature. In this context, the influence of robot mass and velocity during rigid impacts with a...
Sami Haddadin, Alin Albu-Schäffer, Gerd Hirzi...
IBERAMIA
2010
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Robotic Orientation towards Speaker for Human-Robot Interaction
Abstract. The orientation of conversational robots to face their interlocutors is essential for natural and efficient Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). In this paper, progress towards...
Caleb Rascón, Héctor H. Avilé...
HRI
2010
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
Robots asking for directions: the willingness of passers-by to support robots
—This paper reports about a human-robot interaction field trial conducted with the autonomous mobile robot ACE (Autonomous City Explorer) in a public place, where the ACE robot ...
Astrid Weiss, Judith Igelsböck, Manfred Tsche...
CORR
2010
Springer
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Imitation learning of motor primitives and language bootstrapping in robots
Abstract— Imitation learning in robots, also called programing by demonstration, has made important advances in recent years, allowing humans to teach context dependant motor ski...
Thomas Cederborg, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer
ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
On events in multi-robot patrol in adversarial environments
The problem of multi-robot patrol in adversarial environments has been gaining considerable interest during the recent years.In this problem, a team of mobile robots is required t...
Noa Agmon