—Based on a study of the engagement process between humans, we have developed and implemented an initial computational model for recognizing engagement between a human and a huma...
Charles Rich, Brett Ponsleur, Aaron Holroyd, Canda...
The ability of artificial companions (virtual agents or robots) to establish meaningful relationships with users is still limited. In humans, a key aspect of such ability is empath...
— In this paper, an approach to interaction control of a robot manipulator with a partially known environment is proposed. The environment is a rigid object of known geometry but...
Vincenzo Lippiello, Bruno Siciliano, Luigi Villani
In this paper a system, which is driven through natural language, that allows operators to select and manipulate objects in the environment using an industrial robot is proposed. I...
Abstract— For path planning algorithms of robots it is important that the robot does not reach a state of inevitable collision. In crowded environments with many humans or robots...
Daniel Althoff, Matthias Althoff, Dirk Wollherr, M...