—Although fall is a rare event in the life of a humanoid robot, we must be prepared for it because its consequences are serious. In this paper we present a fall strategy which ra...
This paper presents a novel object recognition approach based on range images. Due to its insensitivity to illumination, range data is well suited for reliable silhouette extracti...
People detection and tracking is a key issue for social robot design and effective human robot interaction. This paper addresses the problem of detecting people with a mobile robo...
— In this paper we present a new system for a mobile robot to generate an articulated scene model by analyzing complex dynamic 3D scenes. The system extracts essential knowledge ...
Agnes Swadzba, Niklas Beuter, Sven Wachsmuth, Fran...
Detection of multiple people is a key element for social robot design and it is a requirement for effective human-robot interaction. However, it is not an easy task, especially in...