— Human interaction with a service robot requires a shared representation of the environment for spoken dialogue and task specification where names used for particular locations...
In this paper, we demonstrate the use of qualitative spatial modelling as the foundation for the conceptual representation of route instructions, to enable robust humanrobot intera...
—Robot imitation is a useful and promising alternative to robot programming. Robot imitation involves two crucial issues. The first is how a robot can imitate a human whose phys...
Ryunosuke Yokoya, Tetsuya Ogata, Jun Tani, Kazunor...
The style in which a robot moves, expressed through its gait or locomotion, can convey effective messages to people. For example, a robot could move aggressively in reaction to a ...
James Everett Young, Kentaro Ishii, Takeo Igarashi...
— This paper proposes adapting human jumping dynamics to humanoid robotic structures. Data obtained from human jumping phases and decomposition together with ground reaction forc...