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ATAL
2000
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Multiagent Bidding Mechanisms for Robot Qualitative Navigation
This paper explores the use of bidding mechanisms to coordinate the actions requested by a group of agents in charge of achieving the task of guiding a robot towards a specified t...
Carles Sierra, Ramon López de Mántar...
HICSS
2000
IEEE
149views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2000»
14 years 2 months ago
CMC and the Question of Democratisation: A University Field Study
The potential of Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) to enable new forms of social interaction and foster democratisation of decision making has raised much interest but has bee...
Dubravka Cecez-Kecmanovic, Lesley Treleaven, Debra...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
142views Robotics» more  ICRA 2010»
13 years 8 months ago
Toward automated tissue retraction in robot-assisted surgery
—Robotic surgical assistants are enhancing physician performance, enabling physicians to perform more delicate and precise minimally invasive surgery. However, these devices are ...
Sachin Patil, Ron Alterovitz
ICAS
2006
IEEE
117views Robotics» more  ICAS 2006»
14 years 4 months ago
A Reflective Database-Oriented Framework for Autonomic Managers
The trend towards autonomic systems emphasizes the need for implementation frameworks for autonomic features. In this paper we describe a general framework for the development of ...
Wendy Powley, Patrick Martin
ATAL
2004
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Teaching and Working with Robots as a Collaboration
New applications for autonomous robots bring them into the human environment where they are to serve as helpful assistants to untrained users in the home or office, or work as ca...
Cynthia Breazeal, Guy Hoffman, Andrea Lockerd