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ANTSW
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Negotiation of Goal Direction for Cooperative Transport
In this paper, we study the cooperative transport of a heavy object by a group of robots towards a goal. We investigate the case in which robots have partial and noisy knowledge of...
Alexandre Campo, Shervin Nouyan, Mauro Birattari, ...
HRI
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Human control for cooperating robot teams
Human control of multiple robots has been characterized by the average demand of single robots on human attention or the distribution of demands from multiple robots. When robots ...
Jijun Wang, Michael Lewis
HRI
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Humanoid robots as a passive-social medium: a field experiment at a train station
This paper reports a method that uses humanoid robots as a communication medium. There are many interactive robots under development, but due to their limited perception, their in...
Kotaro Hayashi, Daisuke Sakamoto, Takayuki Kanda, ...
HRI
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Robot expressionism through cartooning
We present a new technique for human-robot interaction called robot expressionism through cartooning. We suggest that robots utilise cartoon-art techniques such as simplified and ...
James Everett Young, Min Xin, Ehud Sharlin
HRI
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
On-line behaviour classification and adaptation to human-robot interaction styles
This paper presents a proof-of-concept of a robot that is adapting its behaviour on-line, during interactions with a human according to detected play styles. The study is part of ...
Dorothée François, Daniel Polani, Ke...
HRI
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Robotic etiquette: results from user studies involving a fetch and carry task
This paper presents results, outcomes and conclusions from a series of Human Robot Interaction (HRI) trials which investigated how a robot should approach a human in a fetch and c...
Michael L. Walters, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Sarah N. W...
FOCS
1994
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
The Power of Team Exploration: Two Robots Can Learn Unlabeled Directed Graphs
We show that two cooperating robots can learn exactly any strongly-connected directed graph with n indistinguishable nodes in expected time polynomial in n. We introduce a new typ...
Michael A. Bender, Donna K. Slonim
EWLR
1997
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Learning Complex Robot Behaviours by Evolutionary Computing with Task Decomposition
Building robots can be a tough job because the designer has to predict the interactions between the robot and the environment as well as to deal with them. One solution to cope the...
Wei-Po Lee, John Hallam, Henrik Hautop Lund
ROBOCUP
1999
Springer
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Design and Construction of a Soccer Player Robot ARVAND
Arvand is a robot specially designed and constructed for playing soccer according to RoboCup rules and regulations for the medium size robots. This robot consists of three main par...
Mansour Jamzad, Amirali Foroughnassiraei, Ehsan Ch...
ROBOCUP
1999
Springer
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Middle Sized Soccer Robots: ARVAND
Abstract. Arvand is the name of robots specially designed and constructed by sharif CE team for playing soccer according to RoboCup rules and regulations for the middle size robots...
Mansour Jamzad, Amirali Foroughnassiraei, Ehsan Ch...