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AGENTS
1997
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Story-Making with Improvisational Puppets
"Improv Puppets'' is an interaction paradigm modeled after traditional puppet play. With physical puppets, children move their puppets' bodies and speak their ...
Barbara Hayes-Roth, Robert van Gent
AGENTS
1997
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Adaptable Local Level Arbitration of Behaviors
During the last few years, and in an attempt to provide an ecient alternative to classical methods to designing robot control structures, the behavior-based approach has emerged....
Mohamed Salah Hamdi, Karl Kaiser
AGENTS
1997
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
High-Level Planning and Low-Level Execution: Towards a Complete Robotic Agent
We have been developing Rogue, an architecture that integrates high-level planning with a low-level executing robotic agent. Rogue is designed as the oce gofer task planner for X...
Karen Zita Haigh, Manuela M. Veloso
AGENTS
1997
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Creatures: Artificial Life Autonomous Software Agents for Home Entertainment
This paper gives a technical description of Creatures, a commercial home-entertainment software package. Creatures provides a simulated environment in which exist a number of synt...
Stephen Grand, Dave Cliff, Anil Malhotra
AGENTS
1997
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Software Agents and User Autonomy
: Software agents comprise a new area for research and soon will be embedded and ubiquitous in modern computing systems. In this formative phase, it is important to develop compreh...
Batya Friedman, Helen Nissenbaum
AGENTS
1997
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Learning View Graphs for Robot Navigation
Abstract. We present a purely vision-based scheme for learning a topological representation of an open environment. The system represents selected places by local views of the surr...
Matthias O. Franz, Bernhard Schölkopf, Philip...
AGENTS
1997
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Integrating Range and Object Data for Robot Navigation
Most sensors used for robot navigation fall into one of two broad categories: range sensors that give approximate distances to obstacles, and object-based sensors that detect and ...
David Franklin, R. James Firby
AGENTS
1997
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Yenta: A Multi-Agent, Referral-Based Matchmaking System
Many important and useful applications for software agents require multiple agents on a network that communicate with each other. Such agents must find each other and perform a u...
Leonard N. Foner
AGENTS
1997
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Integrated Premission Planning and Execution for Unmanned Ground Vehicles
Fielding robots in complex applications can stress the human operators responsible for supervising them, particularly because the operators might understand the applications but n...
Edmund H. Durfee, Patrick G. Kenny, Karl C. Kluge