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AI
1999
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
An Affective Mobile Robot Educator with a Full-Time Job
Sage is a robot that has been installed at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History as a full-time autonomous member of the staff. Its goal is to provide educational content to muse...
Illah R. Nourbakhsh
IJRR
2010
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13 years 4 months ago
Design and field experimentation of a prototype Lunar prospector
Scarab is a prototype rover for Lunar missions to survey resources in polar craters. It is designed as a prospector that would use a deep coring drill and apply soil analysis inst...
David Wettergreen, Scott Moreland, Krzysztof Skoni...
HRI
2010
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Robots asking for directions: the willingness of passers-by to support robots
—This paper reports about a human-robot interaction field trial conducted with the autonomous mobile robot ACE (Autonomous City Explorer) in a public place, where the ACE robot ...
Astrid Weiss, Judith Igelsböck, Manfred Tsche...
ALIFE
2007
13 years 7 months ago
A Synthetic Vision System Using Directionally Selective Motion Detectors to Recognize Collision
: Reliably recognizing objects approaching on a collision course is extremely important. In this paper, a synthetic vision system is proposed to tackle the problem of collision rec...
Shigang Yue, F. Claire Rind
HAIS
2008
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Extraction of Geometrical Features in 3D Environments for Service Robotic Applications
Modeling environments with 3D feature based representations is a challenging issue in current mobile robotics. Fast and robust algorithms are required for applicability to navigati...
Paloma de la Puente, Diego Rodríguez-Losada...