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HRI
2009
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
An affective guide robot in a shopping mall
To explore possible robot tasks in daily life, we developed a guide robot for a shopping mall and conducted a field trial with it. The robot was designed to interact naturally wit...
Takayuki Kanda, Masahiro Shiomi, Zenta Miyashita, ...
HRI
2009
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
How search and its subtasks scale in N robots
The present study investigates the effect of the number of controlled robots on performance of an urban search and rescue (USAR) task using a realistic simulation. Participants co...
Huadong Wang, Michael Lewis, Prasanna Velagapudi, ...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Using critical junctures and environmentally-dependent information for management of tightly-coupled cooperation in heterogeneou
— This paper addresses the challenge of forming appropriate heterogeneous robot teams to solve tightly-coupled, potentially multi-robot tasks, in which the robot capabilities may...
Lynne E. Parker, Christopher M. Reardon, Heeten Ch...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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A body joint improves vertical to horizontal transitions of a wall-climbing robot
— Several recently-designed robots are able to scale steep surfaces using animal-inspired strategies for foot attachment and leg kinematics. These designs could be valuable for r...
Kathryn A. Daltorio, Timothy C. Witushynsky, Grego...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Comparison of robotic and clinical motor function improvement measures for sub-acute stroke patients
Abstract— In this paper, preliminary results in motor function improvement for four sub-acute stroke patients that underwent a hybrid robotic and traditional rehabilitation progr...
Ozkan Celik, Marcia Kilchenman O'Malley, Corwin Bo...