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ICRA
1999
IEEE
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14 years 25 days ago
An Effective Method to Reduce Inventory in Job Shops
Inventory plays a major role in deciding the overall manufacturing costs, and a good scheduling system should balance the on-time delivery of products versus low work-in-process (W...
Peter B. Luh, Xiaohui Zhou, Robert N. Tomastik
ICRA
1998
IEEE
142views Robotics» more  ICRA 1998»
14 years 24 days ago
Lagrangian Relaxation Neural Networks for Job Shop Scheduling
Abstract--Manufacturing scheduling is an important but difficult task. In order to effectively solve such combinatorial optimization problems, this paper presents a novel Lagrangia...
Peter B. Luh, Xing Zhao, Yajun Wang
HRI
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
How to approach humans?: strategies for social robots to initiate interaction
This paper proposes a model of approach behavior with which a robot can initiate conversation with people who are walking. We developed the model by learning from the failures in ...
Satoru Satake, Takayuki Kanda, Dylan F. Glas, Mich...
HRI
2007
ACM
14 years 13 days ago
Robots as interfaces to haptic and locomotor spaces
Research on spatial cognition and navigation of the visually impaired suggests that vision may be a primary sensory modality that enables humans to align the egocentric (self to o...
Vladimir A. Kulyukin, Chaitanya Gharpure, Cassidy ...
IROS
2009
IEEE
151views Robotics» more  IROS 2009»
14 years 3 months ago
Simultaneous people tracking and localization for social robots using external laser range finders
—Robust localization of robots and reliable tracking of people are both critical requirements for the deployment of service robots in real-world environments. In crowded public s...
Dylan F. Glas, Takayuki Kanda, Hiroshi Ishiguro, N...