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AI
1999
Springer
14 years 9 months ago
An Affective Mobile Robot Educator with a Full-Time Job
Sage is a robot that has been installed at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History as a full-time autonomous member of the staff. Its goal is to provide educational content to muse...
Illah R. Nourbakhsh
IJRR
2010
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14 years 6 months ago
Design and field experimentation of a prototype Lunar prospector
Scarab is a prototype rover for Lunar missions to survey resources in polar craters. It is designed as a prospector that would use a deep coring drill and apply soil analysis inst...
David Wettergreen, Scott Moreland, Krzysztof Skoni...
HRI
2010
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Robots asking for directions: the willingness of passers-by to support robots
—This paper reports about a human-robot interaction field trial conducted with the autonomous mobile robot ACE (Autonomous City Explorer) in a public place, where the ACE robot ...
Astrid Weiss, Judith Igelsböck, Manfred Tsche...
ALIFE
2007
14 years 9 months ago
A Synthetic Vision System Using Directionally Selective Motion Detectors to Recognize Collision
: Reliably recognizing objects approaching on a collision course is extremely important. In this paper, a synthetic vision system is proposed to tackle the problem of collision rec...
Shigang Yue, F. Claire Rind
HAIS
2008
Springer
14 years 10 months ago
Extraction of Geometrical Features in 3D Environments for Service Robotic Applications
Modeling environments with 3D feature based representations is a challenging issue in current mobile robotics. Fast and robust algorithms are required for applicability to navigati...
Paloma de la Puente, Diego Rodríguez-Losada...