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ICRA
2000
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Enhancing Randomized Motion Planners: Exploring with Haptic Hints
In this paper, we investigate methods for enabling a human operator and an automatic motion planner to cooperatively solve a motion planning query. Our work is motivated by our ex...
O. Burçhan Bayazit, Guang Song, Nancy M. Am...
ICRA
2002
IEEE
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13 years 12 months ago
An Experiment in Internet-Based, Human-Assisted Robotics
: This paper describes an experimental exploration in Internet-based control of robots. The motivation of this work is that Internet communications can be exploited to achieve grea...
Lung Ngai, Wyatt S. Newman, Vincenzo Liberatore
AROBOTS
2007
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13 years 7 months ago
Behavioral overlays for non-verbal communication expression on a humanoid robot
This research details the application of non-verbal communication display behaviors to an autonomous humanoid robot, including the use of proxemics, which to date has been seldom ...
Andrew G. Brooks, Ronald C. Arkin
IJCNN
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Adaptive curiosity for emotions detection in speech
— Exploratory activities seem to be crucial for our cognitive development. According to psychologists, exploration is an intrinsically rewarding behaviour. The developmental robo...
Alexis Bondu, Vincent Lemaire
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
Robotic Discovery of the Auditory Scene
- In this work, we describe an autonomous mobile robotic system for finding and investigating ambient noise sources in the environment. Motivated by the large negative effect of am...
Eric Martinson, Alan C. Schultz