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Motion Planning and Inertia Based Control for Impact Aware Manipulation
In this paper, we propose a metric called hitting flux which is used in the motion generation and controls for a robot manipulator to interact with the environment through a hitting or a striking motion. Given the task of placing a known object outside of ...
2023Computational Models of Mutual Understanding for Human-Robot Collaborative Learning
There is a growing trend towards designing learning activities featuring robots as collaborative exercises where children work together to achieve the activity objectives, generating interactions that can trigger learning processes. Witnessing such activit ...
EPFL2023Piecewise Affine Curvature model: a reduced-order model for soft robot-environment interaction beyond PCC
Josephine Anna Eleanor Hughes, Francesco Stella, Qinghua Guan
Soft robot are celebrated for their propensity to enable compliant and complex robot-environment interactions. Soft robotic manipulators, or slender continuum structure robots have the potential to exploit these interactions to enable new exploration and m ...
IEEE2023Participatory design of a social robot and robot-mediated storytelling activity to raise awareness of gender inequality among children
Gender inequality is a widespread problem in our society. It can manifest itself in many ways and contexts, and starting as early as primary school. While an increasing number of initiatives aim at tackling gender biases and inequalities, few of them are a ...
New York2023Learning to Guide Online Multi-Contact Receding Horizon Planning
Sylvain Calinon, Teguh Santoso Lembono
In Receding Horizon Planning (RHP), it is critical that the motion being executed facilitates the completion of the task, e.g. building momentum to overcome large obstacles. This requires a value function to inform the desirability of robot states. However ...
IEEE2022The role of feedback and guidance as intervention methods to foster computational thinking in educational robotics learning activities for primary school
Francesco Mondada, Jean-Philippe Pellet, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Christian Giang, Vaios Papaspyros, Evgeniia Bonnet, Bernard Baumberger
Computational thinking (CT) is considered an emerging competence domain linked to 21st-century competences, and educational robotics (ER) is increasingly recognised as a tool to develop CT competences. This is why researchers recommend developing intervent ...
2022Questioning Wizard of Oz: Effects of Revealing the Wizard behind the Robot
Pierre Dillenbourg, Pierre Pravin Oppliger, Barbara Bruno, Jauwairia Nasir
Wizard of Oz, a very commonly employed technique in human-robot interaction, faces the criticism of being deceptive as the humans interacting with the robot are told, if at all, only at the end of their interaction that there was in fact a human behind the ...
2022A Case for the Design of Attention and Gesture Systems for Social Robots
Daniel Carnieto Tozadore, Barbara Bruno, Utku Norman, Romain Maure, Erik Alessandro Wengle
The success of social robots, even (or, especially) in use cases as simple as "manning" a booth to promote a product in a shopping mall, depends on their ability of interacting with humans in a timely, effective and enjoyable way. In this paper we present ...
SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2022The Neurorobotic Platform: A simulation environment for brain-inspired robotics
Marc-Oliver Gewaltig, Paul Levi
The aim of the neurorobotic platform of the Human Brain Project is to offer scientists and technology developers a soft - ware and hardware infrastructure that allows them to connect pre-validated brain models to detailed simulations of ro- bot bodies and ...
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