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ICRA
2009
IEEE
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13 years 6 months ago
Robot basketball: A comparison of ball dribbling with visual and force/torque feedback
Ball dribbling is a central element of basketball and one main challenge for realizing basketball robots is to achieve the stability of the periodic dribbling task. In this paper t...
Georg Batz, Kwang-Kyu Lee, Dirk Wollherr, Martin B...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Physical parameter optimization in swarms of ultra-low complexity agents
Physical agents (such as wheeled vehicles, UAVs, hovercraft, etc.) with simple control systems are often sensitive to changes in their physical design and control parameters. As s...
Ryan Connaughton, Paul W. Schermerhorn, Matthias S...
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
The role of choice and customization on users' interaction with embodied conversational agents: effects on perception and perfor
We performed an empirical study exploring people's interactions with an embodied conversational agent (ECA) while performing two tasks. Conditions varied with respect to 1) w...
Jun Xiao, John T. Stasko, Richard Catrambone
ISVC
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
A Control Architecture for Long-Term Autonomy of Robotic Assistants
A major challenge in deploying service robots into the real world is to design a framework that provides effective, long-term interactions with people. This includes interacting w...
Christopher King, Xavier Palathingal, Monica N. Ni...
ROBIO
2006
IEEE
129views Robotics» more  ROBIO 2006»
14 years 2 months ago
Learning Utility Surfaces for Movement Selection
— Humanoid robots are highly redundant systems with respect to the tasks they are asked to perform. This redundancy manifests itself in the number of degrees of freedom of the ro...
Matthew Howard, Michael Gienger, Christian Goerick...