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HRI
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Learning about objects with human teachers
A general learning task for a robot in a new environment is to learn about objects and what actions/effects they afford. To approach this, we look at ways that a human partner c...
Andrea Lockerd Thomaz, Maya Cakmak
HRI
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Footing in human-robot conversations: how robots might shape participant roles using gaze cues
During conversations, speakers establish their and others’ participant roles (who participates in the conversation and in what capacity)—or “footing” as termed by Goffman...
Bilge Mutlu, Toshiyuki Shiwa, Takayuki Kanda, Hiro...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
179views Robotics» more  ICRA 2008»
15 years 3 months ago
How can human motion prediction increase transparency?
—A major issue in the field of human-robot interaction for assistance to manipulation is transparency. This basic feature qualifies the capacity for a robot to follow human mov...
Nathanaël Jarrassé, Jamie Paik, Vivian...
PRDC
2005
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Development of Dependable Real-Time Systems with Zerberus
Although the main fault-tolerance techniques are known for a long time, there exists no consistent approach for implementing dependable applications in the sense that the fault-to...
Christian Buckl, Alois Knoll, Gerhard Schrott
SAB
2004
Springer
289views Optimization» more  SAB 2004»
15 years 2 months ago
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...