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CHI
2011
ACM
13 years 11 days ago
Roboshop: multi-layered sketching interface for robot housework assignment and management
As various home robots come into homes, the need for efficient robot task management tools is arising. Current tools are designed for controlling individual robots independently, ...
Kexi Liu, Daisuke Sakamoto, Masahiko Inami, Takeo ...
CEC
2010
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Evolvable mechanics: Hardware tools for evolutionary robotics
Embodying robot morphologies evolved in simulation can present serious problems for an engineer when translating simplified simulated mechanisms into working devices, often drawing...
Bill Bigge Inman, R. Harvey
CORR
2010
Springer
169views Education» more  CORR 2010»
13 years 9 months ago
Artificial Hormone Reaction Networks: Towards Higher Evolvability in Evolutionary Multi-Modular Robotics
The semi-automatic or automatic synthesis of robot controller software is both desirable and challenging. Synthesis of rather simple behaviors such as collision avoidance by apply...
Heiko Hamann, Jürgen Stradner, Thomas Schmick...
ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A systematic agent framework for situated autonomous systems
We present a formal framework of an autonomous agent as a collection of coordinated control loops, with a recurring sense, plan, act cycle. Our framework manages the information f...
Frederic Py, Kanna Rajan, Conor McGann
ICRA
2008
IEEE
112views Robotics» more  ICRA 2008»
14 years 3 months ago
Speed and height control for a special class of running quadruped robots
— In this work a novel control method is presented for controlling the forward speed and apex height of a special class of running quadruped robot, with a dimensionless inertia o...
Nicholas Cherouvim, Evangelos Papadopoulos