The ability to represent knowledge about space and its position therein is crucial for a mobile robot. To this end, topological and semantic descriptions are gaining popularity fo...
This paper describes a programming language extension of C++, called CES, specifically targeted towards mobile robot control. CES’s design is motivated by a recent series of su...
This paper reports our novel approach to developing a social robot. Such a robot reads human relationships from their physical behavior. We have developed an interactive humanoid r...
Autonomous robots, such as robot office couriers, need navigation routines that support flexible task execution and effective action planning. This paper describes XFRMLEARN, a s...
How an internal observer, that is not given any a priori knowledge or interpretation of what its sensors receives, learn to imitate seems a formidable issue from a viewpoint of a c...