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On the Integration of Adaptive and Interactive Robotic Smart Spaces [PDF]
, 2015 © 2015 Mauro Dragone et al.. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License. (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)Enabling robots to seamlessly operate as part of smart spaces is an important and extended challenge for ...
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RoCKIn@Home: Domestic Robots Challenge
, 2017 Service robots performing complex tasks involving people in houses or public environments are becoming more and more common, and there is a huge interest from both the research and the industrial point of view. The RoCKIn@Home challenge has been designed to compare and evaluate different approaches and solutions to tasks related to the development of ...
Iocchi, Luca +6 more
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The impact of peoples' personal dispositions and personalities on their trust of robots in an emergency scenario [PDF]
, 2018 Humans should be able to trust that they can safely interact with their home companion robot. However, robots can exhibit occasional mechanical, programming or functional errors.
Dautenhahn, Kerstin +3 more
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Simulation Competitions on Domestic Robots [PDF]
, 2013 This paper reports a series of simulation competitions on domestic robots. All of these five competitions were based on a simulation platform focused on evaluating high-level functions of a domestic robot, including task planning and dialogue understanding.
Jianmin Ji +4 more
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Optimization Beyond the Convolution: Generalizing Spatial Relations with End-to-End Metric Learning
, 2019 To operate intelligently in domestic environments, robots require the ability to understand arbitrary spatial relations between objects and to generalize them to objects of varying sizes and shapes. In this work, we present a novel end-to-end approach to
Abdo, Nichola +3 more
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Smart Computing and Sensing Technologies for Animal Welfare: A Systematic Review [PDF]
, 2016 Animals play a profoundly important and intricate role in our lives today. Dogs have been human companions for thousands of years, but they now work closely with us to assist the disabled, and in combat and search and rescue situations.
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Technology and the Appearance of the Good: Carebots, Virtual Virtue, and the Best Possible Life [PDF]
, 2008 Growth of the elderly population and nursing shortage place increased pressure on our health care systems. One possible response is to let care robots or carebots take over care tasks.
Coeckelbergh, Mark
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"The fridge door is open" : temporal verification of a robotic assistant's behaviours [PDF]
, 2014 Robotic assistants are being designed to help, or work with, humans in a variety of situations from assistance within domestic situations, through medical care, to industrial settings. Whilst robots have been used in industry for some time they are often
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Glyphosate (GLY) and its primary metabolite, aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA), are photodegraded using a poly(vinylidene fluoride) membrane with immobilized titanium dioxide (PVDF‐TiO2) in a continuous flow‐through operation under solar light. At optimized conditions, the PVDF‐TiO2 membrane achieved 95% GLY and 80% AMPA removal with •O2− as the ...
Phuong B. Trinh +4 more
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Video prototyping of dog-inspired non-verbal affective communication for an appearance constrained robot [PDF]
, 2010 Original article can be found at: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org “This material is presented to ensure timely dissemination of scholarly and technical work. Copyright and all rights therein are retained by authors or by other copyright holders.
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