— Robots’ interaction with humans raises new issues for geometrical reasoning where the humans must be taken explicitly into account. We claim that a human-aware motion system ...
Emrah Akin Sisbot, Luis Felipe Marin, Rachid Alami
— Robot assisted heart surgery allows surgeons to operate on a heart while it is still beating as if it had been stopped. The robot actively cancels heart motion by closely follo...
Timothy J. Franke, Ozkan Bebek, Murat Cenk Cavusog...
— This paper presents a software component, the plan database, which provides the needed services to define plans, execute them and more importantly adapt them during execution....
—Wheeled-mobile robots operating in human environments typically encounter small steps. Surmounting steps is normally not considered when determining peak torque needs, yet it ca...
Alexander Wilhelm, William W. Melek, Jan Paul Huis...
— Affordances represent the behavior of objects in terms of the robot’s motor and perceptual skills. This type of knowledge plays a crucial role in developmental robotic system...
Luis Montesano, Manuel Lopes, Alexandre Bernardino...