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HRI
2006
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
The art of designing robot faces: dimensions for human-robot interaction
As robots enter everyday life and start to interact with ordinary people the question of their appearance becomes increasingly important. A user’s perception of a robot can be s...
Mike Blow, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Andrew Appleby, Chr...
HRI
2006
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Challenges to grounding in human-robot interaction
We report a study of a human-robot system composed of a science team (located in Pittsburgh), an engineering team (located in Chile), and a robot (located in Chile). We performed ...
Kristen Stubbs, Pamela J. Hinds, David Wettergreen
GRAPHITE
2006
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Methodologies for immersive robot programming in an augmented reality environment
—Advancements in robotics have gained much momentum in recent years. Industrial robotic systems are increasingly being used outside the factory floor, evident by the growing pres...
Soh-Khim Ong, J. W. S. Chong, Andrew Y. C. Nee
ROBIO
2006
IEEE
139views Robotics» more  ROBIO 2006»
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Biologically Inspired Reflex Based Stabilization Control of a Humanoid Robot with Artificial SMA Muscles
- Suddenly occurring collisions or unintentional motions represent a high safety risk in robotics and must be prevented. Especially for humanoid robots, the influence of disturbanc...
Robert Kratz, Sebastian Klug, Maximilian Stelzer, ...
ROBIO
2006
IEEE
217views Robotics» more  ROBIO 2006»
14 years 6 months ago
Modular software architecture for teams of cooperating, heterogeneous robots
— For teams of cooperating autonomous lightweight robots with challenging dynamical locomotion properties a platform independent modular software architecture and platform indepe...
Martin Friedmann, Jutta Kiener, Sebastian Petters,...
IROS
2006
IEEE
168views Robotics» more  IROS 2006»
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An Entropy-Based Measurement of Certainty in Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filter Mapping
– In Bayesian based approaches to mobile robot simultaneous localization and mapping, Rao-Blackwellized particle filters (RBPF) enable the efficient estimation of the posterior b...
Jose-Luis Blanco, Juan-Antonio Fernandez-Madrigal,...
IROS
2006
IEEE
152views Robotics» more  IROS 2006»
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Integrating Active Mobile Robot Object Recognition and SLAM in Natural Environments
Abstract— Linking semantic and spatial information has become an important research area in robotics since, for robots interacting with humans and performing tasks in natural env...
Staffan Ekvall, Patric Jensfelt, Danica Kragic
IROS
2006
IEEE
103views Robotics» more  IROS 2006»
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Planning and Executing Navigation Among Movable Obstacles
Abstract— This paper explores autonomous locomotion, reaching, grasping and manipulation for the domain of Navigation Among Movable Obstacles (NAMO). The robot perceives and cons...
Mike Stilman, Koichi Nishiwaki, Satoshi Kagami, Ja...
IROS
2006
IEEE
122views Robotics» more  IROS 2006»
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Team-Driven Multi-Model Motion Tracking with Communication
— Interactions are frequently seen between the robot and the targets being tracked within the robotics community. Modeling the interactions using knowledge of robot cognition imp...
Yang Gu, Manuela M. Veloso
IROS
2006
IEEE
153views Robotics» more  IROS 2006»
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RFID Technology-based Exploration and SLAM for Search And Rescue
— Robot search and rescue is a time critical task, i.e. a large terrain has to be explored by multiple robots within a short amount of time. The efficiency of exploration depend...
Alexander Kleiner, Johann Prediger, Bernhard Nebel