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ICMI
2009
Springer
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15 years 10 months ago
Dynamic robot autonomy: investigating the effects of robot decision-making in a human-robot team task
Robot autonomy is of high relevance for HRI, in particular for interactions of humans and robots in mixed human-robot teams. In this paper, we investigate empirically the extent t...
Paul W. Schermerhorn, Matthias Scheutz
ROBOCUP
2005
Springer
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15 years 9 months ago
SimRobot - A General Physical Robot Simulator and Its Application in RoboCup
This paper describes SimRobot, a robot simulator which is able to simulate arbitrary user-defined robots in three-dimensional space. It includes a physical model which is based on...
Tim Laue, Kai Spiess, Thomas Röfer
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IWC
2008
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15 years 3 months ago
Robot ethics? Not yet: A reflection on Whitby's "Sometimes it's hard to be a robot"
Science fiction stories seductively portray robots as human. In present reality (early 21st century) robots are machines, even though they can do many things far better than human...
Harold W. Thimbleby
SIMPAR
2010
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15 years 2 months ago
Virtual Robot Experimentation Platform V-REP: A Versatile 3D Robot Simulator
From exploring planets to cleaning homes, the reach and versatility of robotics is vast. The integration of actuation, sensing and control makes robotics systems powerful, but comp...
Marc Freese, Surya P. N. Singh, Fumio Ozaki, Nobut...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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15 years 9 months ago
Operator Engagement Detection and Robot Behavior Adaptation in Human-Robot Interaction
- It has been shown that in human-robot interaction, the effectiveness of a robot varies inversely with the operator engagement in the task. Given the importance of maintaining opt...
Pramila Rani, Nilanjan Sarkar