— To provide personal and location-dependent services in public spaces such as shopping malls, it is important to be able to estimate the positions and identities of people in th...
Tetsushi Ikeda, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Dylan F. Glas, M...
—Robots are poised to enter our everyday environments such as our homes and offices, contexts that present unique questions such as the style of the robot’s actions. Style-orie...
James Everett Young, Kentaro Ishii, Takeo Igarashi...
Service robots which should perform human-like operation will penetrate into a great number of applications in the future. Requirements for this is high flexibility, autonomy and ...
— Communication skill is essential for social robots in various environments such as homes, offices, and hospitals, where the robots are expected to interact with humans. In thi...
— While the Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) provides a formal framework for the problem of robot control under uncertainty, it typically assumes a known and ...