This work is about the relevance of Gibson’s concept of affordances [1] for visual perception in interactive and autonomous robotic systems. In extension to existing functional ...
Gerald Fritz, Lucas Paletta, Ralph Breithaupt, Eri...
We propose a method for learning using a set of feature representations which retrieve different amounts of information at different costs. The goal is to create a more efficient ...
Anelia Angelova, Larry Matthies, Daniel M. Helmick...
This paper describes the control of a human-like robotic neck actuated with tendons. The controller regulates the length of the tendons to achieve a desired orientation of the neck...
Lorenzo Jamone, Matteo Fumagalli, Giorgio Metta, L...
In mobile robotics, there are often features that, while potentially powerful for improving navigation, prove difficult to profit from as they generalize poorly to novel situations...
Boris Sofman, Ellie Lin, J. Andrew Bagnell, John C...
Autonomous robots that can adapt to novel situations has been a long standing vision of robotics, artificial intelligence, and cognitive sciences. Early approaches to this goal du...