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IROS
2008
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
What do people expect from robots?
— The study presented in this paper explores people perception of robots, with a particular focus on domestic use. We addressed issues related to positive and negative attitudes ...
Céline Ray, Francesco Mondada, Roland Siegw...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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13 years 5 months ago
A quadratic regulator-based heuristic for rapidly exploring state space
Abstract— Kinodynamic planning algorithms like RapidlyExploring Randomized Trees (RRTs) hold the promise of finding feasible trajectories for rich dynamical systems with complex...
Elena Leah Glassman, Russ Tedrake
ICMI
2009
Springer
188views Biometrics» more  ICMI 2009»
13 years 5 months ago
Detecting user engagement with a robot companion using task and social interaction-based features
Affect sensitivity is of the utmost importance for a robot companion to be able to display socially intelligent behaviour, a key requirement for sustaining long-term interactions ...
Ginevra Castellano, André Pereira, Iolanda ...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
Auditory mood detection for social and educational robots
— Social robots face the fundamental challenge of detecting and adapting their behavior to the current social mood. For example, robots that assist teachers in early education mu...
Paul Ruvolo, Ian R. Fasel, Javier R. Movellan
ICML
2000
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
Learning Probabilistic Models for Decision-Theoretic Navigation of Mobile Robots
Decision-theoretic reasoning and planning algorithms are increasingly being used for mobile robot navigation, due to the signi cant uncertainty accompanying the robots' perce...
Daniel Nikovski, Illah R. Nourbakhsh