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HICSS
2003
IEEE
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Theory and Evaluation of Human Robot Interactions
Human-robot interaction (HRI) for mobile robots is still in its infancy. Most user interactions with robots have been limited to teleoperation capabilities where the most common i...
Jean Scholtz
HICSS
2003
IEEE
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Linking Perception and Action in a Control Architecture for Human-Robot Domains
Human-robot interaction is a growing research domain; there are many approaches to robot design, depending on the particular aspects of interaction being focused on. In this paper...
Monica N. Nicolescu, Maja J. Mataric
CEC
2003
IEEE
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A note on general adaptation in populations of painting robots
A population of virtual robots is evolved to perform the task of competitively painting the floor of a toroidal room. Two robots are present in any given room and paint using dis...
Dan Ashlock, Elizabeth Blankenship, Jonathan Gandr...
SAB
2004
Springer
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An Overview of Physicomimetics
This paper provides an overview of our framework, called physicomimetics, for the distributed control of swarms of robots. We focus on robotic behaviors that are similar to those s...
William M. Spears, Diana F. Spears, Rodney Heil, W...
ROBOCUP
2004
Springer
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Sharing Belief in Teams of Heterogeneous Robots
This paper describes the joint approach of three research groups to enable a heterogeneous team of robots to exchange belief. The communication framework presented imposes little r...
Hans Utz, Freek Stulp, Arndt Mühlenfeld
PPSN
2004
Springer
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Group Transport of an Object to a Target That Only Some Group Members May Sense
This paper addresses the cooperative transport of a heavy object, called prey, towards a sporadically changing target location by a group of robots. The study is focused on the sit...
Roderich Groß, Marco Dorigo
FAABS
2004
Springer
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Two Formal Gas Models for Multi-agent Sweeping and Obstacle Avoidance
Abstract. The task addressed here is a dynamic search through a bounded region, while avoiding multiple large obstacles, such as buildings. In the case of limited sensors and commu...
Wesley Kerr, Diana F. Spears, William M. Spears, D...
ROBOCUP
2005
Springer
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Cooperative Action Control Based on Evaluating Objective Achievements
This paper deals with a cooperative control method for a multi-agent system in dynamic environment. This method enables a robot to perform flexible cooperation based on the global ...
Hikari Fujii, Masayuki Kato, Kazuo Yoshida
ISRR
2005
Springer
154views Robotics» more  ISRR 2005»
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Session Overview Planning
ys when planning meant searching for a sequence of abstract actions that satisfied some symbolic predicate. Robots can now learn their own representations through statistical infe...
Nicholas Roy, Roland Siegwart
ISRR
2005
Springer
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One Is Enough!
We postulate that multi-wheel statically-stable mobile robots for operation in human environments are an evolutionarydead end. Robots of this class tall enough to interact meaning...
Tom Lauwers, George Kantor, Ralph L. Hollis