Intelligent Robotics: Navigation, Planning, and Human-Robot Interaction

Intelligent Human Robot Interaction (iHRI)

Human-Robot Interaction in Service Robotics

Service robots or personal robots are to be used by non-expert users. This requires special attention to the human-robot interaction to provide systems that people are comfortable to use and be around. In this paper a number of different modalities for human-robot interaction are presented and a few systems that exploit such interfaces are outlined. These systems have been used for initial stud...

Visitor Companion Robot: Navigation and Human-Robot Interaction under Uncertainty

In this paper, we describe an indoor robot capable of autonomous localization and navigation that serves as a companion to a human visitor. We contribute a fully-functional robot that can localize itself using static wireless nodes, manage its own uncertainty, and ask humans for help when needed. We define the indoor map as a graph embedded in the Cartesian plane with an associated matrix of le...

Intelligent Adaptive Mobile Robot Navigation

This paper deals with the application of a neuro-fuzzy inference system to a mobile robot navigation in an unknown, or partially unknown environment. The final aim of the robot is to reach some pre-defined goal. For this purpose, a sort of a co-operation between three main sub-modules is performed. These sub-modules consist in three elementary robot tasks: following a wall, avoiding an obstacle...

Special Track on Robotics and Human-Robot Interaction

Robotics is a multidisciplinary area of study that spans computer science, physics, electrical engineering, and mechanical engineering. Robotics covers the study, design, manufacture, and use of robots in various applications. There are many subareas of robotics where computers interface with physical environments that have proven to be major sources of inspiration and provide crucial new insig...