ICRA
2005
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2005
IEEE
- Using the Darwin2k development software, a genetic algorithm (GA) was used to design and optimize a pipecrawling robot for parameters such as mass, power consumption, and joint e...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2005
IEEE
— This paper studies the effects of the geometry of a mobile robot formation on the accuracy of the robots’ localization. The general case of heterogeneous (in terms of sensor ...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2005
IEEE
— In swarm robotics research, instead of using large size robots, it is often desirable to have multiple small size robots for saving valuable work space and making the maintaina...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2005
IEEE
Abstract— This paper presents a novel approach to mapping for mobile robots that exploits user interaction to semiautonomously create a labelled map of the environment. The robot...
HRI
2006
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2006
ACM
This paper presents a robot search task (social tag) that uses social interaction, in the form of asking for help, as an integral component of task completion. We define socially...
HRI
2006
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2006
ACM
Robot programmers are faced with the challenging problem of understanding the robot’s view of its world, both when creating and when debugging robot software. As a result tools ...
HRI
2006
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2006
ACM
This paper reports on a study of human participants with a robot designed to participate in a collaborative conversation with a human. The purpose of the study was to investigate ...
HRI
2006
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2006
ACM
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...
HRI
2006
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2006
ACM
Humanoid robots offer many physical design choices such as voice frequency and head dimensions. We used hierarchical statistical mediation analysis to trace differences in people...
HRI
2006
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2006
ACM
This paper investigates human behavior around an interactive robot at a science museum. To develop a communication robot that works in daily environments, it is important to inves...