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Are Autonomous Mobile Robots Able to Take Over Construction? A Review

Francesco Mondada, Hadi Ardiny, Stefan John Witwicki

Although construction has been known as a highly complex application field for autonomous robotic systems, recent advances in this field offer great hope for using robotic capabilities to develop automated construction. Today, space research agencies seek ...

2015

Construction Automation with Autonomous Mobile Robots: A Review

Francesco Mondada, Hadi Ardiny, Stefan John Witwicki

We review state-of-the-art research into automated construction by autonomous mobile robots. Today, space research agencies seek to build infrastructure without human intervention; and construction companies look to robots with the potential to improve in ...

2015

Decentralized multi-robot coordination in crowded workspaces

Laleh Makarem

The coordination of multi-robot systems is becoming one of the most important areas of research in robotics, mostly because it is required by numerous complex applications. These applications range from intelligent transportation systems, search and rescue ...

EPFL2015

Learning Optimal Controllers in Human-robot Cooperative Transportation Tasks with Position and Force Constraints

Sylvain Calinon

Human-robot collaboration seeks to have humans and robots closely interacting in everyday situations. For some tasks, physical contact between the user and the robot may occur, originating significant challenges at safety, cognition, perception and control ...

2015

Experimental validation of a bio-inspired controller for dynamic walking with a humanoid robot

Auke Ijspeert, Jesse van den Kieboom, Renaud Ronsse, Nicolas Benoît Dominique Van der Noot, Luca Colasanto, Allan Barrea

Bipedal walking with humanoid robots requires efficient real-time control. Nowadays, most bipedal robots require to ensure local stability at every instant in time, preventing them from achieving the impressive human walking skills. At the same time, bio-i ...

IEEE2015

Distributed Particle Swarm Optimization using Optimal Computing Budget Allocation for Multi-Robot Learning

Alcherio Martinoli, Inaki Navarro Oiza, Ezequiel Leonardo Di Mario

Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is a population-based metaheuristic that can be applied to optimize controllers for multiple robots using only local information. In order to cope with noise in the robotic performance evaluations, different re-evaluation ...

2015

Human-Robot Interaction: Tackling the AI Challenges

Séverin Lemaignan

Human-Robot interaction is an area full of challenges for artificial intelligence: dynamic, partially unknown environments that are not originally designed for autonomous machines; a large variety of situations and objects to deal with, with possibly compl ...

2014

Triggering social interactions: chimpanzees respond to imitation by a humanoid robot and request responses from it

Aude Billard

Even the most rudimentary social cues may evoke affiliative responses in humans and promote socialcommunication and cohesion. The present work tested whether such cues of an agent may also promotecommunicative interactions in a nonhuman primate species, by ...

Springer Verlag2014

The Cognitive Correlates of Anthropomorphism

Pierre Dillenbourg, Séverin Lemaignan, Julia Fink

While anthropomorphism in human-robot interaction is often discussed, it still appears to lack formal grounds. We recently proposed a first model of the dynamics of anthropomorphism that reflects the evolution of anthropomorphism in the human-robot interac ...

2014

Cognitive mechanism in synchronized motion: An internal predictive model for manual tracking control

Aude Billard, Mahdi Khoramshahi, Ashwini Shukla

Many daily tasks involve spatio-temporal coordination between two agents. Study of such coordinated actions in human-human and human-robot interaction has received increased attention of late. In this work, we use the mirror paradigm to study coupling of h ...

2014

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