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“Olá, my name is Ana”: A study on Brazilians interacting with a receptionist robot “ol<s:1>，我叫Ana”:一项关于巴西人与接待员机器人互动的研究

2015 International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR) Pub Date : 2015-07-27 DOI: 10.1109/ICAR.2015.7251435

G. Trovato, J. J. G. Ramos, Helio Azevedo, A. Moroni, Silvia Magossi, H. Ishii, R. Simmons, A. Takanishi

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引用次数: 15

Path following with an underactuated self-balancing spherical-wheel mobile robot 欠驱动自平衡球轮移动机器人路径跟踪

2015 International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR) Pub Date : 2015-07-27 DOI: 10.1109/ICAR.2015.7251455

Ali Nail Inal, Ö. Morgül, U. Saranlı

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引用次数: 3

Solving ambiguities in MDS relative localization 解决MDS相对定位中的歧义

2015 International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR) Pub Date : 2015-07-27 DOI: 10.1109/ICAR.2015.7251461

Carmelo Di Franco, Alessandra Melani, Mauro Marinoni

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引用次数: 13

Hierarchical segmentation of manipulation actions based on object relations and motion characteristics 基于对象关系和运动特征的操作动作分层分割

2015 International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR) Pub Date : 2015-07-27 DOI: 10.1109/ICAR.2015.7251510

Mirko Wächter, T. Asfour

{"title":"Hierarchical segmentation of manipulation actions based on object relations and motion characteristics","authors":"Mirko Wächter, T. Asfour","doi":"10.1109/ICAR.2015.7251510","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAR.2015.7251510","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding human actions is an indispensable capability of humanoid robots which acquire task knowledge from human demonstration. Segmentation of such continuous demonstrations into meaningful segments reduces the complexity of understanding an observed task. In this paper, we propose a two-level hierarchical action segmentation approach which considers semantics of an action in addition to human motion characteristics. On the first level, a semantic segmentation is performed based on contact relations between human end-effectors, the scene, and between objects in the scene. On the second level, the semantic segments are further sub-divided based on a novel heuristic that incorporates the motion characteristics into the segmentation procedure. As input for the segmentation, we present an observation method for tracking the human as well as the objects and the environment. 6D pose trajectories of the human's hands and all objects are extracted in a precise and robust manner from data of a marker-based tracking system. We evaluated and compared our approach with a manual reference segmentation and well-known segmentation algorithms based on PCA and zero-velocity-crossings using 13 human demonstrations of daily activities.We show that significantly smaller segmentation errors are achieved with our approach while providing the necessary granularity for representing human demonstrations.","PeriodicalId":432004,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126381463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 39

Robust task execution through experience-based guidance for cognitive robots 基于经验指导的认知机器人鲁棒任务执行

2015 International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR) Pub Date : 2015-07-27 DOI: 10.1109/ICAR.2015.7251527

Sanem Sariel, Petek Yildiz, Sertac Karapinar, Dogan Altan, Melis Kapotoglu

引用次数: 5

Predicting the long-term robustness of visual features 预测视觉特征的长期稳健性

2015 International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR) Pub Date : 2015-07-27 DOI: 10.1109/ICAR.2015.7251497

Benjamin Metka, Annika Besetzny, Ute Bauer-Wersing, M. Franzius

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引用次数: 3

Robust control of a parallel robot 并联机器人的鲁棒控制

2015 International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR) Pub Date : 2015-07-27 DOI: 10.1109/ICAR.2015.7251491

M. Rachedi, M. Bouri, B. Hemici

引用次数: 8

A probabilistic, variable-resolution and effective quadtree representation for mapping of large environments 一个概率，可变分辨率和有效的四叉树表示映射的大环境

2015 International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR) Pub Date : 2015-07-27 DOI: 10.1109/ICAR.2015.7251518

Yingfeng Chen, Wei Shuai, Xiaoping Chen

{"title":"A probabilistic, variable-resolution and effective quadtree representation for mapping of large environments","authors":"Yingfeng Chen, Wei Shuai, Xiaoping Chen","doi":"10.1109/ICAR.2015.7251518","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAR.2015.7251518","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a probabilistic quadtree map is presented instead of traditional grids map which is used widely in robot mapping and localization field yet is confronted with prohibitive storage consumption. A quadtree is a well-known data structure capable of achieving compact and efficient representation of large two-dimensional environments. We extend this basic idea by integrating with probabilistic framework and propose a clamping scheme to update the map occupancy probability value, which eliminates the uncertainty of the system and facilitates data compression. Meanwhile, in order to speed the operation of locating quadtree nodes, a coding rule between a node coordinate and its corresponding access key is adopted. We also discuss a new implementation of the Rao-Blackwellized particle filter simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) based on quadtree representation. Experiments are conducted in different sizes of areas (even in a shopping mall of 23,700 m2) demonstrate that the SLAM algorithm based on quadtree representation works excellently compared to grids map especially in large scale environments.","PeriodicalId":432004,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123173952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 13

On-line collision detection of n-robot industrial manipulators using advanced collision map 基于高级碰撞地图的n机器人工业机械臂在线碰撞检测

2015 International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR) Pub Date : 2015-07-27 DOI: 10.1109/ICAR.2015.7251490

Ahmad Yasser Afaghani, Y. Aiyama

引用次数: 7

Design and implementation of a cognitive-ergonomic navigation interface on an optimized holonomic mechanism 基于优化整体机制的认知人机工程学导航界面的设计与实现

2015 International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR) Pub Date : 2015-07-27 DOI: 10.1109/ICAR.2015.7251466

Mohsen Falahi, B. Beigzadeh, Z. Bank, R. Rajabli

引用次数: 1