Sciweavers

AAAI
1998
13 years 7 months ago
Template-Based Recognition of Pose and Motion Gestures On a Mobile Robot
For mobile robots to assist people in everyday life, they must be easy to instruct. This paper describes a gesture-based interface for human robot interaction, which enables peopl...
Stefan Waldherr, Sebastian Thrun, Roseli Romero, D...
MRC
2003
182views Robotics» more  MRC 2003»
13 years 7 months ago
Virtual Synergy: A Human-Robot Interface for Urban Search and Rescue
This paper describes the Virtual Synergy interface, which combines a three dimensional graphical interface with physical robots to allow for collaboration among multiple human res...
Sheila Tejada, Andrew Cristina, Priscilla Goodwyne...
MRC
2003
197views Robotics» more  MRC 2003»
13 years 7 months ago
Blue Swarm 2.5: A Step Toward an Autonomous Swarm of Search and Rescue Robots
Urban search and rescue is a difficult domain for autonomous mobile robots to operate in. The environment can be expected to be highly unstructured, with many obstacles and hazard...
Daniel P. Stormont, Matthew D. Berkemeier
INTERACT
2003
13 years 7 months ago
Vision-Speech System Becoming Efficient and Friendly through Experience
: This paper presents a vision-speech system for service robots that can learn the user’s customs and objects fixed in the environment while helping the user, and can perform the...
Yoshinori Kuno, Mitsutoshi Yoshizaki, Akio Nakamur...
IJCAI
2001
13 years 7 months ago
Heterogeneity in the Coevolved Behaviors of Mobile Robots: The Emergence of Specialists
Many mobile robot tasks can be most efficiently solved when a group of robots is utilized. The type of organization, and the level of coordination and communication within a team ...
Mitchell A. Potter, Lisa Meeden, Alan C. Schultz
CARS
2004
13 years 7 months ago
Robotically assisted ablative treatment guided by freehand 3D ultrasound
Robots can improve the accuracy of image-guided needle placement over traditional free-hand techniques. While many research groups have demonstrated this, widespread clinical adopt...
Emad Boctor, Robert J. Webster III, Michael A. Cho...
AIPS
2004
13 years 7 months ago
Plays as Effective Multiagent Plans Enabling Opponent-Adaptive Play Selection
Coordinated action for a team of robots is a challenging problem, especially in dynamic, unpredictable environments. Robot soccer is an instance of a domain where well defined goa...
Michael H. Bowling, Brett Browning, Manuela M. Vel...
AAAI
2006
13 years 7 months ago
A Multi Agent Approach to Vision Based Robot Scavenging
This paper proposes a design for our entry into the 2006 AAAI Scavenger Hunt Competition and Robot Exhibition. We will be entering a scalable two agent system consisting of off-th...
Kamil Wnuk, Brian Fulkerson, Jeremi Sudol
AAAI
2006
13 years 7 months ago
Action Selection in Bayesian Reinforcement Learning
My research attempts to address on-line action selection in reinforcement learning from a Bayesian perspective. The idea is to develop more effective action selection techniques b...
Tao Wang
AAAI
2006
13 years 7 months ago
The Robot Intelligence Kernel
The Robot Intelligence Kernel (RIK) is a portable, reconfigurable suite of perceptual, behavioral, and cognitive capabilities that can be used across many different platforms, env...
David J. Bruemmer, Douglas A. Few, Miles C. Walton...