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JUCS
2002
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Scheduling Tasks to a Team of Autonomous Mobile Service Robots in Indoor Enviroments
Abstract: This paper presents a complete system for scheduling transportation orders to a fleet of autonomous mobile robots in service environments. It consists of the autonomous m...
Hartmut Surmann, Antonio Morales
AAI
1998
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Toward Socially Intelligent Service Robots
In the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory (IRL) at Vanderbilt University we seek to develop service robots with a high level of social intelligence and interactivity. In order to ach...
Mitchell Wilkes, W. Anthony Alford, Robert T. Pack...
AEI
2006
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Design issues for assistive robotics for the elderly
The worldwide population of elderly people is growing rapidly and in the coming decades the proportion of older people in the developed countries will change significantly. This d...
Qinggang Meng, Mark H. Lee
CSREAESA
2008
14 years 27 days ago
Real-time Embedded Architecture for Advanced Service Robots
In most advanced real-time control applications such as service robots, the tasks have different criticality, flexible timing constraints and variable execution time. For instance...
David Ramada, Carlos Domínguez, Houcine Has...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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14 years 5 months ago
A Hierarchical Bayesian Network for Mixed-Initiative Human-Robot Interaction
– The service robot supports people in their daily activities, while the interaction between humans and robots seems to be an important part of its performance. Dialogue may be b...
Jin-Hyuk Hong, Youn-Suk Song, Sung-Bae Cho
GRAPHITE
2006
ACM
14 years 5 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
SMC
2007
IEEE
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Decision-making under severe uncertainty for autonomous mobile robots
— The field of robotics is on a growth curve, with most of the growth expected in the areas of personal and service robots. As robots become more prevalent in chaotic home and in...
Daniel Berleant, Gary T. Anderson
ROMAN
2007
IEEE
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Study on Behavioral Personality of a Service Robot to make more Convenient to Customer
— In recent years, a lot of companies and laboratories start to announce their various prototype service robots. As we could know in that point, the market for intelligent servic...
Jangwon Lee, Dong-Wook Shin, Hun-Sue Lee, Sukhan L...
IROS
2009
IEEE
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14 years 6 months ago
3D mapping for urban service robots
— We present an approach to the problem of 3D map building in urban settings for service robots, using threedimensional laser range scans as the main data input. Our system is ba...
Rafael Valencia, Ernesto Homar Teniente Avil&eacut...
IROS
2009
IEEE
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Simultaneous people tracking and localization for social robots using external laser range finders
—Robust localization of robots and reliable tracking of people are both critical requirements for the deployment of service robots in real-world environments. In crowded public s...
Dylan F. Glas, Takayuki Kanda, Hiroshi Ishiguro, N...