Finding the best spatial formation of stationary gas sensors in detection of odor clues is the first step of searching for olfactory targets in a given space using a swarm of robots. Considering no movement for a network of gas sensors, this paper formulates the problem of odor plume detection and analytically finds the optimal spatial configuration of the sensors for plume detection, given a s...

Imagine an agent that performs tasks according to different strategies. The goal of Behavioral Recognition (BR) is to identify which of the available strategies is the one being used by the agent, by simply observing the agent's actions and the environmental conditions during a certain period of time. The goal of Behavioral Cloning (BC) is more ambitious. In this last case, the learner must be ...

It has been recognized that long-term effects exist in the interaction with robotic technologies. Despite this recognition, we still know little about how the temporal effects are associated with domestic robots. To bridge this gap, we undertook a long-term field study. We distributed Roomba vacuuming robots to 30 households, and observed the use over six months. During this study, which spans ...

Some of the acute technological challenges of the near future may relate to the coexistence of intelligent robots and humans. Robotic technology is quickly advancing and some believe that this rapid progress will have a huge effect on people and societies in the coming few decades (Moravec, 1999). Norman (Norman, 2004) suggests that we are already surrounded by simple robots, such as computeris...

It has been recognized that long-term effects exist in the interaction with robotic technologies. Despite this recognition, we still know little about how the temporal effects are associated with domestic robots. To bridge this gap, we undertook a long-term field study. We distributed Roomba vacuuming robots to 30 households, and observed the use over six months. During this study, which spans ...

The constraints of a low-cost consumer product pose a major challenge for designing a localization system. In previous work, we introduced Vector Field SLAM [5], a system for simultaneously estimating robot pose and a vector field induced by stationary signal sources present in the environment. In this paper we show how this method can be realized on a low-cost embedded processing unit by apply...

This work combines hardware, software, and curricula in order to create robots capable enough to advance the field of AI yet inexpensive enough to be widely accessible. Costs are kept low by pairing iRobot’s roombas with existing laptop or palmtop computers and their accessories. The result is a sub-$200 untethered physical platform capable of running and testing state-of-the-art AI algorithms....

A major barrier to advancing modern wireless networking research is the lack of an effective wireless network simulation platform that simultaneously offers high fidelity, scalability, reproducibility and ease of use. MiNT [8], [7] is an innovative wireless network emulation platform that is specifically designed to satisfy all these desirable properties. To support reconfigurable network topol...

From a design perspective, there are two ways in robot design approach: biologically inspired and functionally designed. It has been proved that the two robot design types could be perceived differently by the cultural background. This study explored the impact of robot design types in Korean and Japanese culture on product evaluation, product usefulness, and purchase intention. We conducted an...

A primary challenge to large-scale data integration is creating semantic equivalences between elements from different data sources that correspond to the same real-world entity or concept. Dataspaces propose a pay-as-you-go approach: automated mechanisms such as schema matching and reference reconciliation provide a initial correspondences, termed candidate matches, and then user feedback is us...