For mobile robots to assist people in everyday life, they must be easy to instruct. This paper describes a gesture-based interface for human robot interaction, which enables peopl...
Stefan Waldherr, Sebastian Thrun, Roseli Romero, D...
The Personal Satellite Assistant (PSA) is a small robot proposed by NASA to assist astronauts who are living and working aboard the space shuttle or space station. To help the ast...
— We introduce the concept of Ecology of Physically Embedded Intelligent Systems, or PEIS-Ecology. This is a network of heterogeneous robotic devices (PEIS) pervasively embedded ...
Mathias Broxvall, Marco Gritti, Alessandro Saffiot...
— As people move through their environments, they do not move randomly. Instead, they are often engaged in typical motion patterns, related to specific locations they might be i...
This article investigates fundamental issues in scaling autonomous personal robots towards open-ended sets of everyday manipulation tasks which involve high complexity and vague j...