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ICRA
2008
IEEE
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14 years 3 months ago
Towards a personal robotics development platform: Rationale and design of an intrinsically safe personal robot
—The most critical challenge for Personal Robotics is to manage the issue of human safety and yet provide the physical capability to perform useful work. This paper describes a n...
Keenan A. Wyrobek, Eric H. Berger, H. F. Machiel V...
RAS
2007
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13 years 8 months ago
Virtual sensors for human concepts - Building detection by an outdoor mobile robot
Abstract— In human-robot communication it is often important to relate robot sensor readings to concepts used by humans. We suggest to use a virtual sensor (one or several physic...
Martin Persson, Tom Duckett, Achim J. Lilienthal
IROS
2007
IEEE
165views Robotics» more  IROS 2007»
14 years 2 months ago
A bayesian conceptualization of space for mobile robots
Abstract— The future of robots, as our companions is dependent on their ability to understand, interpret and represent the environment in a human compatible manner. Towards this ...
Shrihari Vasudevan, Roland Siegwart
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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14 years 3 months ago
Qualitative robot localisation using information from cast shadows
— Recently, cognitive psychologists and others have turned their attention to the formerly neglected study of shadows, and the information they purvey. These studies show that th...
Paulo Santos, Hannah M. Dee, Valquiria Fenelon
HRI
2010
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Cooperative gestures: effective signaling for humanoid robots
Abstract—Cooperative gestures are a key aspect of humanhuman pro-social interaction. Thus, it is reasonable to expect that endowing humanoid robots with the ability to use such g...
Laurel D. Riek, Tal-Chen Rabinowitch, Paul Bremner...