The ability of artificial companions (virtual agents or robots) to establish meaningful relationships with users is still limited. In humans, a key aspect of such ability is empath...
— In this paper, an approach to interaction control of a robot manipulator with a partially known environment is proposed. The environment is a rigid object of known geometry but...
Vincenzo Lippiello, Bruno Siciliano, Luigi Villani
In this paper a system, which is driven through natural language, that allows operators to select and manipulate objects in the environment using an industrial robot is proposed. I...
Abstract— For path planning algorithms of robots it is important that the robot does not reach a state of inevitable collision. In crowded environments with many humans or robots...
Daniel Althoff, Matthias Althoff, Dirk Wollherr, M...
Division of labour in multi-robot systems or multi-robot task allocation (MRTA) is a challenging research issue. We propose to solve this MRTA problem using a set of previously pub...