For mobile robots to assist people in everyday life, they must be easy to instruct. This paper describes a gesture-based interface for human robot interaction, which enables peopl...
Stefan Waldherr, Sebastian Thrun, Roseli Romero, D...
This paper describes the Virtual Synergy interface, which combines a three dimensional graphical interface with physical robots to allow for collaboration among multiple human res...
Sheila Tejada, Andrew Cristina, Priscilla Goodwyne...
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...
: This paper presents a vision-speech system for service robots that can learn the user’s customs and objects fixed in the environment while helping the user, and can perform the...
Many mobile robot tasks can be most efficiently solved when a group of robots is utilized. The type of organization, and the level of coordination and communication within a team ...
Robots can improve the accuracy of image-guided needle placement over traditional free-hand techniques. While many research groups have demonstrated this, widespread clinical adopt...
Emad Boctor, Robert J. Webster III, Michael A. Cho...
Coordinated action for a team of robots is a challenging problem, especially in dynamic, unpredictable environments. Robot soccer is an instance of a domain where well defined goa...
Michael H. Bowling, Brett Browning, Manuela M. Vel...
This paper proposes a design for our entry into the 2006 AAAI Scavenger Hunt Competition and Robot Exhibition. We will be entering a scalable two agent system consisting of off-th...
My research attempts to address on-line action selection in reinforcement learning from a Bayesian perspective. The idea is to develop more effective action selection techniques b...
The Robot Intelligence Kernel (RIK) is a portable, reconfigurable suite of perceptual, behavioral, and cognitive capabilities that can be used across many different platforms, env...
David J. Bruemmer, Douglas A. Few, Miles C. Walton...