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IBERAMIA
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Detection of Multiple People by a Mobile Robot in Dynamic Indoor Environments
Detection of multiple people is a key element for social robot design and it is a requirement for effective human-robot interaction. However, it is not an easy task, especially in...
José Alberto Méndez-Polanco, Ang&eac...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
130views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
14 years 4 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
ICRA
2002
IEEE
91views Robotics» more  ICRA 2002»
14 years 3 months ago
Tactile Tracking of Arteries in Robotic Surgery
Locating arteries hidden beneath superficial tissue can be a difficult task in minimally invasive surgery. This paper reports the development of a system that finds the paths of a...
Ryan A. Beasley, Robert D. Howe
HRI
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
On using mixed-initiative control: a perspective for managing large-scale robotic teams
Prior work suggests that the potential benefits of mixed initiative management of multiple robots are mitigated by situational factors, including workload and operator expertise....
Benjamin Hardin, Michael A. Goodrich
JFR
2006
88views more  JFR 2006»
13 years 10 months ago
Discovering natural kinds of robot sensory experiences in unstructured environments
We derive categories directly from robot sensor data to address the symbol grounding problem. Unlike model-based approaches where human intuitive correspondences are sought betwee...
Daniel H. Grollman, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins, Frank...