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ISCAS
2006
IEEE
103views Hardware» more  ISCAS 2006»
14 years 3 months ago
Towards autonomous adaptive behavior in a bio-inspired CNN-controlled robot
— This paper describes a general approach for the unsupervised learning of behaviors in a behavior-based robot. The key idea is to formalize a behavior produced by a Motor Map dr...
Paolo Arena, Luigi Fortuna, Mattia Frasca, Luca Pa...
ICRA
2003
IEEE
106views Robotics» more  ICRA 2003»
14 years 2 months ago
Development of a Hot Gas Actuator for Self-Powered Robots
This paper describes the design of a liquid-propellantpowered hot-gas actuator appropriate for human-scale power-autonomous robots. A prototype of the actuation system is describe...
Michael Goldfarb, Eric J. Barth, Michael A. Gogola...
CORR
2000
Springer
81views Education» more  CORR 2000»
13 years 8 months ago
Safe cooperative robot dynamics on graphs
This paper initiates the use of vector fields to design, optimize, and implement reactive schedules for safe cooperative robot patterns on planar graphs. We consider Automated Gui...
Robert Ghrist, Daniel E. Koditschek
CANDC
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Children's storytelling and programming with robotic characters
We introduce mixed physical and digital authoring environments for children, which invite them to create stories with enriched drawings that are programmed to control robotic char...
Kimiko Ryokai, Michael Jongseon Lee, Jonathan Mica...
SIGCSE
2005
ACM
125views Education» more  SIGCSE 2005»
14 years 2 months ago
Efficient use of robots in the undergraduate curriculum
In this paper we describe how a single Khepera II robot was used for an assignment in a senior level course on graphical user interface implementation. The assignment required eac...
Judith Challinger