A variety of sensors and positioning methods have been developed over the years. Most methods rely on active sensors (such as sonars or lasers) which have range and power restrict...
David P. Miller, Anne Wright, Randy Sargent, Rob C...
— We explore the capabilities of a robot designed to locate objects underwater through active movement of an electric field emitter and sensor apparatus. The robot is inspired b...
James R. Solberg, Kevin M. Lynch, Malcolm A. MacIv...
Information processing within autonomous robots should follow a biomimetic approach. In contrast to traditional approaches that make intensive use of accurate measurements, numeric...
— The presence of humans should be explicitly taken into account in all steps of robot’s design and particularly for robot motion. The robot should reason about human partner...
Emrah Akin Sisbot, Luis Felipe Marin, Rachid Alami...
Developmental robotics is concerned with the design of algorithms that promote robot adaptation and learning through qualitative growth of behaviour and increasing levels of compe...