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ATAL
2008
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Teaching sequential tasks with repetition through demonstration
For robots to become prevalent in human environments, the robots need to be able to perform complex tasks often involving sequential repetition of actions. In this work, we presen...
Harini Veeraraghavan, Manuela M. Veloso
GECCO
2010
Springer
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Coevolution of heterogeneous multi-robot teams
Evolving multiple robots so that each robot acting independently can contribute to the maximization of a system level objective presents significant scientific challenges. For e...
Matt Knudson, Kagan Tumer
ANTSW
2008
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Modeling Phase Transition in Self-organized Mobile Robot Flocks
We implement a self-organized flocking behavior in a group of mobile robots and analyze its transition from an aligned state to an unaligned state. We briefly describe the robot an...
Ali Emre Turgut, Cristián Huepe, Hande &Cce...
ALGOSENSORS
2008
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Simple Robots in Polygonal Environments: A Hierarchy
With the current progress in robot technology and related areas, sophisticated moving and sensing capabilities are at hand to design robots capable of solving seemingly complex tas...
Jan Brunner, Matús Mihalák, Subhash ...
AAAI
2007
14 years 2 months ago
The UBC Semantic Robot Vision System
This report describes the robot, Curious George, that took part in, and won, the robot league of the 2007 Semantic Robot Vision Challenge (SRVC), held at the AAAI’07 conference ...
Scott Helmer, David Meger, Per-Erik Forssén...
AAAI
2008
14 years 2 months ago
Anticipatory Perceptual Simulation for Human-Robot Joint Practice: Theory and Application Study
With the aim of fluency and efficiency in human-robot teams, we have developed a cognitive architecture based on the neuro-psychological principles of anticipation and perceptual ...
Guy Hoffman, Cynthia Breazeal
AAAI
2007
14 years 2 months ago
Spatial Representation and Reasoning for Human-Robot Collaboration
How should a robot represent and reason about spatial information when it needs to collaborate effectively with a human? The form of spatial representation that is useful for robo...
William G. Kennedy, Magdalena D. Bugajska, Matthew...
ICRA
1995
IEEE
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14 years 4 months ago
Learning to predict Resistive Forces During Robotic Excavation
— Few robot tasks require as forceful an interaction with the world as excavation. In order to effectively plan its actions, our robot excavator requires a method that allows it ...
Sanjiv Singh
ICCV
1995
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Real-Time Obstacle Avoidance Using Central Flow Divergence and Peripheral Flow
The lure of using motion vision as a fundamental element in the perception of space drives this effort to use flow features as the sole cues for robot mobility. Real-time estimat...
David Coombs, Martin Herman, Tsai-Hong Hong, Maril...
MICCAI
2000
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
MR Compatible Surgical Assist Robot: System Integration and Preliminary Feasibility Study
A magnetic resonance (MR) compatible surgical assist robot system under preclinical evaluation is described. It is designed to coexist, and cooperate, with a surgeon, and to positi...
Kiyoyuki Chinzei, Nobuhiko Hata, Ferenc A. Jolesz,...