"Improv Puppets'' is an interaction paradigm modeled after traditional puppet play. With physical puppets, children move their puppets' bodies and speak their ...
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....
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...
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...
: 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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Fielding robots in complex applications can stress the human operators responsible for supervising them, particularly because the operators might understand the applications but n...