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EPIA
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Towards a Spatial Model for Humanoid Social Robots
This paper presents an approach to endow a humanoid robot with the capability of learning new objects and recognizing them in an unstructured environment. New objects are learnt, w...
Dario Figueira, Manuel Lopes, Rodrigo M. M. Ventur...
MRC
2003
197views Robotics» more  MRC 2003»
13 years 9 months ago
Blue Swarm 2.5: A Step Toward an Autonomous Swarm of Search and Rescue Robots
Urban search and rescue is a difficult domain for autonomous mobile robots to operate in. The environment can be expected to be highly unstructured, with many obstacles and hazard...
Daniel P. Stormont, Matthew D. Berkemeier
AAAI
2010
13 years 8 months ago
Task Space Behavior Learning for Humanoid Robots using Gaussian Mixture Models
In this paper a system was developed for robot behavior acquisition using kinesthetic demonstrations. It enables a humanoid robot to imitate constrained reaching gestures directed...
Kaushik Subramanian
KI
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Towards Automatic Manipulation Action Planning for Service Robots
A service robot should be able to automatically plan manipulation actions to help people in domestic environments. Following the classic senseplan-act cycle, in this paper we prese...
Steffen W. Ruehl, Zhixing Xue, Thilo Kerscher, R&u...
IWC
2006
70views more  IWC 2006»
13 years 7 months ago
Exploring the design space of robots: Children's perspectives
Children's perceptions and evaluations of different robot designs are an important unexplored area within robotics research considering that many robots are specifically desi...
Sarah Woods