Gesturing is an important activity in social interaction, but how will different types of robot gesture be interpreted by people? Understanding how humans interpret robot gestures will aid design of effective social robots. We examine the generation and interpretation of gestures in a simple social robot capable of head and arm movement using two studies. In the first study, four participants c...

Authors: Dennis L. Chao1,2,*,† , Carissa A. Sanchez1,2,*, Patricia C. Galipeau1,2, Patricia L. Blount1,2,3, Thomas G. Paulson1,2, David S. Cowan1,2, Kamran Ayub6,7,8, Robert D. Odze9, Peter S. Rabinovitch2, 4, and Brian J. Reid1, 2, 3, 5 1Division of Human Biology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington 2Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Ce...

Robotic soccer is a new challenging multi-agentdomain, in which agents need to collaborate in an adversarial environment to achieve specific objectives. In this paper, we describe CMUnited-97, our team of robotic agents that we developed to enter the RoboCup-97 competition. We first discuss the challenges underlying the robotic soccer domain as a multi-agent system. We then introduce our team a...

The video shows a robotic wheelchair autonomously driven by a sensor-based navigation system in an office scenario. The objective of the experiment displayed is to reach a location out of a room. This is achieved by a sensor-based motion system composed of three different modules: a modeler of the environment, a tactical planner and an obstacle avoidance method. The integration of these modules...

Autonomous intelligent robotic systems that can survive in dynamic changing environments have yet to be realized. The robot must process incoming information, make decisions, and learn from previous actions concurrently and in real time. Reliance on one all-encompassing system with one overburdened processor, no matter how fast, makes this goal unreachable. One of the primary reasons the goal i...

Manipulating natural objects of irregular shapes, such as rocks, is an essential capability of robots operating in outdoor environments. Physics-based simulators are commonly used to plan stable grasps for man-made objects. However, planning is an expensive process that is based on simulating hand and object trajectories in different configurations, and evaluating the outcome of each trajectory...

Robotic soccer is a challenging research domain that can be used to explore new problems and to demonstrate new techniques. We participated in RoboCup'98 in order to explore the problems of cooperation in multi-robot-systems and to demonstrate our self-localization techniques based on laser range nders. In this paper we sketch the main technical points of our team, give a description of the pro...

There are two main trends in the area of home and service robotics. The classical one aims at the development of a single skilled servant robot, able to perform complex tasks in a passive environment. The second, more recent trend aims at the achievement of complex tasks through the cooperation of a network of simpler robotic devices pervasively embedded in the domestic environment. This paper ...

Recently there has been growing interest in creating large-scale simulations of certain areas in the brain. The areas that are receiving the overwhelming focus are visual in nature, which may provide a means to compute some of the complex visual functions that have plagued AI researchers for many decades; robust object recognition, for example. Additionally, with the recent introduction of chea...

Space Tethered Autonomous Robotic Satellite I (STARS-I) project has carried since January 2005 under the leadership of Kagawa University. The main objective of STARS-I project is technical verification for Tethered Space Robot (TSR). TSR is a new type of space robot system proposed in the previous work. STARS-I consists of two small cubic satellites, one satellite has a function of tether deplo...