In the control of autonomous mobile robots there exist two types of control: global control and local control. The requirement to solve global and local tasks arises respectively. This chapter concentrates on local tasks and shows that robots can learn to cope with some local tasks within minutes. The main idea of the chapter is to show that, while creating intelligent control systems for auton...

Autonomous soccer robots should recognize the environment from the captured image from a video camera and plan to proper behavior. Furthermore, when some robots play cooperatively, communication system between robots is important. Because of simple vision and actuator system, the gap between the real world and simulation environment is considered to small. Our research target is to accomplish m...

Learning new knowledge from single instructions and being able to apply it immediately is a highly desirable capability for artificial agents. We provide the first demonstration of spoken instructionbased one-shot object and action learning in a cognitive robotic architecture and discuss the modifications to several architectural components required to enable such fast learning, demonstrating t...

To be sociable, embodied interactive agents like virtual characters or humanoid robots need to be able to engage in mutual coordination of behaviors, beliefs, and relationships with their human interlocutors. We argue that this requires them to be capable of flexible multimodal expressiveness, incremental perception of other’s behaviors, and the integration and interaction of these models in un...

Nowadays, robots and virtual agents become companions for humans. They seem to have distinct roles in the Human-Agent Interaction. Thus, when developing a new application, it is judicious to wonder which the better is. In the Robadom project, a homecare robot has to assist elderly at home. The robot provides cognitive stimulation game. We developed StimCards, a cognitive card-based game. The pr...

Increasingly socially intelligent agents (software or robotic) are used in education, rehabilitation and therapy. This paper discusses the role of inter-active, mobile robots as social mediators in the particular domain of autism therapy. This research is part of the project AURORA that studies how mobile robots can be used to teach children with autism basic interaction skills that are importa...

This paper presents intelligent object distribution architecture to maximize the performance and intelligence of a distributed surgical robotics system and its preliminary implementation in an MR−guided surgical robot system in an open−configuration MRI scanner. The method enables networked integration of a robot control server and multiple clients with minimum engineering overhead but maximum ...

In an attempt to replicate earlier research on intelligent agents for robots, we analysed the effects of the presence and absence of a robot ́s nonverbal behavior on users ́ nonverbal behavior and evaluation with a between subjects experimental study (N = 90). Results demonstrated that when the robot shows nonverbal behavior (head movement and deictic, illustrative and rhythmic gesture) participa...

This paper describes the supervisory control of mobile robots using a biologically inspired short-term memory structure called a Sensory EgoSphere. The EgoSphere is implemented as a virtual geodesic dome upon which sensory data from the surroundings of the robot are written. The EgoSphere is managed by a distinct agent in a distributed agent-based robot control architecture called the Intellige...

This paper provides a brief description of Robo-Erectus Senior (RESr) AdultSize soccer playing humanoid robot developed at Advanced Robotics and Intelligent Control Centre of Singapore Polytechnic. We are currently in the stage of building a new hardware for this year competition. The new robot, RESr Bv-MkI will be used as the platform for competing in RoboCup humanoid league, and for our ongoi...