— Several recently-designed robots are able to scale steep surfaces using animal-inspired strategies for foot attachment and leg kinematics. These designs could be valuable for r...
Kathryn A. Daltorio, Timothy C. Witushynsky, Grego...
Polymorphic, or shape-shifting, robots can normally tackle more types of tasks than non-polymorphic robots due to their flexible morphology. Their versatility adds to the challeng...
Jill L. Drury, Holly A. Yanco, Whitney Howell, Bri...
Why is probabilistic roadmap (PRM) planning probabilistic? How does the probability measure used for sampling a robot’s configuration space affect the performance of a PRM plan...
There is an increasing interest in the concept of intelligent environments where a closed or delimited public space (shopping mall, station, museum, hospital etc) is endowed with ...
Beibei Zhan, Ndedi D. Monekosso, Paolo Remagnino, ...
Abstract— For many tasks in populated environments, robots need to keep track of present and future motion states of people. Most approaches to people tracking make weak assumpti...
Matthias Luber, Johannes Andreas Stork, Gian Diego...