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Special Issue on Autonomous Robot Systems

This special issue includes extended versions of selected papers presented in the 13th International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems (Robotica 2013), held in Lisbon, Portugal, on April 24th 2013, an international event co-sponsored by IEEE Robotics and Autonomous Society and organized by the Portuguese Society for Robotics together with the Portuguese Robotics Open. The conference had a ...

Special Issue on Robot Learning by Observation, Demonstration, and Imitation

THIS special issue addresses issues in Robot Learning by Observation, Demonstration and Imitation, topics at the heart of an international Symposium on Imitation organised during AISB in Hertforshire in 2005. The special issue contains selected extended contributions both from the symposium participants and the wider academic community following a public call for papers in 2006. In their paper,...

Guest editorial: Special issue on robot learning, Part B

In this Part B of the Autonomous Robots Special Issue on Robot Learning, we complement the preceding Part A. Similar to Part A, we intend to highlight recent successes in the application of domain-driven machine learning methods to robotics. However, the papers selected for Part B have a slightly different focus than in Part A as they focus on more specialized approaches for a variety of differ...

Introduction to the Special Issue on Human-Robot Interaction

Introduction to This Special Issue on Human-Robot Interaction

Human–computer interaction (HCI), as a field, has made great strides toward understanding and improving our interactions with computer-based technologies. From the early explorations of direct interaction with computers, we have reached the point where usability, usefulness, and an appreciation of technology’s social impact, including its risks, are widely accepted goals in computing. HCI resea...