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HRI
2010
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Exploring interruption in HRI using wizard of oz
—We are interested in exploring how robots controlled using Wizard of Oz (WoO) should interrupt humans in various social settings. While there is considerable work on interruptio...
Paul Saulnier, Ehud Sharlin, Saul Greenberg
IROS
2007
IEEE
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14 years 3 months ago
A quantitative method for comparing trajectories of mobile robots using point distribution models
— In the field of mobile robotics, trajectory details are seldom taken into account to qualify robot performance. Most metrics rely mainly on global results such as the total ti...
Pierre Roduit, Alcherio Martinoli, Jacques Jacot
ICRA
2003
IEEE
95views Robotics» more  ICRA 2003»
14 years 2 months ago
Bilateral time-scaling for control of task freedoms of a constrained nonholonomic system
— We explore the control of a nonholonomic robot subject to additional constraints on the state variables. In our problem, the user specifies the path of a subset of the state v...
Siddhartha S. Srinivasa, Michael Erdmann, Matthew ...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
154views Robotics» more  ICRA 2007»
14 years 3 months ago
Directional Adhesive Structures for Controlled Climbing on Smooth Vertical Surfaces
— Recent biological research suggests that reliable, agile climbing on smooth vertical surfaces requires controllable adhesion. In nature, geckos control adhesion by properly loa...
Daniel Santos, Sangbae Kim, Matthew Spenko, Aaron ...
BIOADIT
2004
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Movement Generation and Control with Generic Neural Microcircuits
Abstract. Simple linear readouts from generic neural microcircuit models can be trained to generate and control basic movements, e.g., reaching with an arm to various target points...
Prashant Joshi, Wolfgang Maass