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HRI
2009
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
The snackbot: documenting the design of a robot for long-term human-robot interaction
We present the design of the Snackbot, a robot that will deliver snacks in our university buildings. The robot is intended to provide a useful, continuing service and to serve as ...
Min Kyung Lee, Jodi Forlizzi, Paul E. Rybski, Fred...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Safe fall: Humanoid robot fall direction change through intelligent stepping and inertia shaping
—Although fall is a rare event in the life of a humanoid robot, we must be prepared for it because its consequences are serious. In this paper we present a fall strategy which ra...
Seung-kook Yun, Ambarish Goswami, Yoshiaki Sakagam...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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A miniature ceiling walking robot with flat tacky elastomeric footpads
—In this paper, the design, analysis, and development of a sixteen-legged palm-sized climbing robot using flat bulk tacky elastomer adhesives as an attachment method is presente...
Ozgur Unver, Metin Sitti
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Self-adapting modular robotics: A generalized distributed consensus framework
Abstract— Biological systems achieve amazing adaptive behavior with local agents performing simple sensing and actions. Modular robots with similar properties can potentially ach...
Chih-Han Yu, Radhika Nagpal
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Expressive facial speech synthesis on a robotic platform
— This paper presents our expressive facial speech synthesis system Eface, for a social or service robot. Eface aims at enabling a robot to deliver information clearly with empat...
Xingyan Li, Bruce MacDonald, Catherine I. Watson