This paper introduces the Laparobot, a tele-operated surgical robot designed specifically for training surgeons in advanced laparoscopic techniques. The Laparobot allows a student...
Brian F. Allen, Brett Jordan, William Pannell, Cat...
— We investigate the use of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), and compare with Genetic Algorithms (GA), for a particular robot behavior-learning task: the training of an animat ...
— Automatically synthesizing behaviors for robots with articulated bodies poses a number of challenges beyond those encountered when generating behaviors for simpler agents. One ...
Reinforcement Learning is commonly used for learning tasks in robotics, however, traditional algorithms can take very long training times. Reward shaping has been recently used to ...
Ana C. Tenorio-Gonzalez, Eduardo F. Morales, Luis ...
—We are concerned with enabling truly large scale autonomous navigation in typical human environments. To this end we describe the acquisition and modeling of large urban spaces ...
Gabe Sibley, Christopher Mei, Ian D. Reid, Paul M....