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...
Abstract--Mapping and localization for indoor robotic navigation is a well-studied field. However, existing work largely relies on long range perceptive sensors in addition to the ...
Ying Zhang, Juan Liu, Gabriel Hoffmann, Mark Quill...
This paper describes a new model for understanding natural language commands given to autonomous systems that perform navigation and mobile manipulation in semi-structured environ...
Stefanie Tellex, Thomas Kollar, Steven Dickerson, ...
The control of robot swarming in a distributed manner is a difficult problem because global behaviors must emerge as a result of many local actions. This paper uses a bio-inspired ...
Wei-Min Shen, Peter M. Will, Aram Galstyan, Cheng-...
This article describes the software architecture of an autonomous, interactive tour-guide robot. It presents a modular, distributed software architecture, which integrates localiz...
Wolfram Burgard, Armin B. Cremers, Dieter Fox, Dir...