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ACMSE
2004
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Distributed robotic target acquisition using Bluetooth communication
This paper presents a distributed multi-robot system designed to solve a team-based search and destroy task. The project was divided into two phases. The initial phase was used to...
J. T. McClain, Bradley J. Wimpey, D. H. Barnhard, ...
ICRA
2002
IEEE
82views Robotics» more  ICRA 2002»
14 years 3 months ago
Trajectory Design for Formations of Robots by Kinetic Energy Shaping
We develop a method for generating smooth trajectories for a set of mobile robots. Given two end configurations, by tuning one parameter, the user can choose an interpolating tra...
Calin Belta, Vijay Kumar
ICRA
2002
IEEE
113views Robotics» more  ICRA 2002»
14 years 3 months ago
Inverse Kinematics of Gel Robots made of Electro-Active Polymer Gel
This paper proposes an inverse kinematic model for deformable robots made entirely of electro-active polymer gel. The required method is to control higher degrees of freedom than ...
Mihoko Otake, Yoshiharu Kagami, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, M...
IJACTAICIT
2010
163views more  IJACTAICIT 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
Modified Vector Field Histogram with a Neural Network Learning Model for Mobile Robot Path Planning and Obstacle Avoidance
In this work, a Modified Vector Field Histogram (MVFH) has been developed to improve path planning and obstacle avoidance for a wheeled driven mobile robot. It permits the detecti...
Bahaa I. Kazem, Ali H. Hamad, Mustafa M. Mozael
HRI
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Robots in the wild: understanding long-term use
It has long been recognized that novelty effects exist in the interaction with technologies. Despite this recognition, we still know little about the novelty effects associated wi...
Ja-Young Sung, Henrik I. Christensen, Rebecca E. G...