Humanoid robot is expected as a rational form of machine to act in the real human environment and support people through interaction with them. Current humanoid robots, however, l...
This paper summarizes ongoing work with a mobile manipulator (Mobipulator). We describe the system architecture of the latest version of the robot, a hierarchy of robot motion com...
Siddhartha S. Srinivasa, Christopher R. Baker, Eli...
This paper presents an approach to the problem of controlling the configuration of a team of mobile agents equipped with cameras so as to optimize the quality of the estimates de...
An omnidirectional platform with an Active Offset Split Caster (ASOC) is described and its ability to operate on non-ideal floors is studied. It is shown that all of its driven wh...
In conversation, people often use spatial relationships to describe their environment, e.g., “There is a desk in front of me and a doorway behind it”, and to issue directives,...
Marjorie Skubic, Dennis Perzanowski, Alan C. Schul...
This paper describes an approach for the fusion of 3D data underwater obtained from multiple sensing modalities. In particular, we examine the combination of imagebased Structure-...
Hanumant Singh, Garbis Salgian, Ryan Eustice, Robe...
Force information from needle insertions was measured and modeled for use in robot-assisted percutaneous therapies. Data was collected on bovine livers using the Johns Hopkins Uni...
—Autonomous mobile robots are constrained in their long-term functionality due to a limited on-board power supply. Typically, rechargeable batteries are utilized that may only pr...
Milo C. Silverman, Dan Nies, Boyoon Jung, Gaurav S...
Task reallocation in a multi-robot organization is a process that distributes a decomposed global task to individual robots. This process must be distributed and dynamic because i...