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The inversion effect on the cubic humanness-uncanniness relation in humanlike agents

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2023
The uncanny valley describes the typically nonlinear relation between the esthetic appeal of artificial entities and their human likeness. The effect has been attributed to specialized (configural) processing that increases sensitivity to deviations from
Alexander Diel   +4 more
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A motion system for social and animated robots [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This paper presents an innovative motion system that is used to control the motions and animations of a social robot. The social robot Probo is used to study Human-Robot Interactions (HRI), with a special focus on Robot Assisted Therapy (RAT).
goris, Kristof   +4 more
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A Monocular Vision Measurement System of Three-Degree-of-Freedom Air-Bearing Test-Bed Based on FCCSP

open access: yesPhotonic Sensors, 2018
A monocular vision-based pose measurement system is provided for real-time measurement of a three-degree-of-freedom (3-DOF) air-bearing test-bed. Firstly, a circular plane cooperative target is designed. An image of a target fixed on the test-bed is then
Zhanyu Gao   +4 more
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Lower limb motor function assessment based on TensorFlow convolutional neural network and kernel entropy component analysis–local tangent space alignment

open access: yesAdvances in Mechanical Engineering, 2020
Motor function assessment of patients and the elderly is crucial to gait assessment and gait rehabilitation. Accuracy of the assessment is affected by clinician’s experience.
Yan Zhang   +3 more
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Single Low-Dose CT Image Denoising Using a Generative Adversarial Network With Modified U-Net Generator and Multi-Level Discriminator

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2020
Low-dose CT (LDCT) images have been widely applied in the medical imaging field due to the potential risk of exposing patients to X-ray radiations. Given the fact that reducing the radiation dose may result in increased noise and artifacts, methods that ...
Jianning Chi   +4 more
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Simple Obstacle Avoidance Algorithm for Rehabilitation Robots [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The efficiency of a rehabilitation robot is improved by offering record-and-replay to operate the robot. While automatically moving to a stored target (replay) collisions of the robot with obstacles in its work space must be avoided.
Römer, G.R.B.   +2 more
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What is a robot companion - friend, assistant or butler? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
The study presented in this paper explored people's perceptions and attitudes towards the idea of a future robot companion for the home. A human-centred approach was adopted using questionnaires and human-robot interaction trials to derive data from 28 ...
Dautenhahn, K.   +5 more
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Structural Descriptions in Human-Assisted Robot Visual Learning [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
The paper presents an approach to using structural descriptions, obtained through a human-robot tutoring dialogue, as labels for the visual object models a robot learns.
Berginc, Gregor   +3 more
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Master assisted cooperative control of human and robot [PDF]

open access: yes, 1996
A cooperative control approach between human and robot takes an important role to carry out various tasks in hazardous environments or space. In this case, a robot is operated based on the cooperation between direct human control and autonomous robot ...
Inoue, Hiroyuki, Noritsugu, Toshiro
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Development and Field Test of Unmanned Marine Vehicle (USV/UUV) With cable

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2020
This paper presents the system, controller, and field test results of an unmanned marine vehicle (UMV) developed to acquire real-time ocean exploration information. The system consists of an unmanned surface vehicle (USV), an unmanned underwater vehicle (
Sung Min Hong   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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