The aim of the study was to investigate the effectiveness of a brief robot-mediated intervention based on Lego(®) therapy on improving collaborative behaviors (i.e., interaction initiations, responses, and play together) between children with ASD and their siblings during play sessions, in a therapeutic setting. A concurrent multiple baseline design across three child-sibling pairs was in effec...

To achieve efficient search performance for the multi-robot system which carries out the goal search task with consideration of timeliness, a multi-robot collaborative path planning system is designed to guide the robots during the search process. In the system, a planning method based on an Improved Ant Colony Optimization (IACO) algorithm is proposed. In the solution procedure, the path cost ...

The efficient and safe performance of collaborative robots requires advancements in perception, control, design and algorithms, among other factors. With regard to algorithms, representing the structure of collaborative tasks and reasoning about progress toward task completion in an on-line fashion enables a robot to be a fluent and safe collaborator based on its ability to predict the next act...

We propose an approach for the integration of collaborative observation and localization within a separate multi-robot mission. The proposed approach will allow individual robots within a team to evaluate and choose a task based on the needs of the mission and the needs, capabilities, and task choices of teammates. Tasks will include mission-related tasks as well as task for self-localization, ...

Many works in collaborative robotics and humanrobot interaction focuses on identifying and predicting human behaviour while considering the information about the robot itself as given. This can be the case when sensors and the robot are calibrated in relation to each other and often the reconfiguration of the system is not possible, or extra manual work is required. We present a deep learning b...

We introduce the Beam, a collaborative autonomous mobile service robot, based on SuitableTech’s Beam telepresence system. We present a set of enhancements to the telepresence system, including autonomy, human awareness, increased computation and sensing capabilities, and integration with the popular Robot Operating System (ROS) framework. Together, our improvements transform the Beam into a low...

This paper presents several novel interactive human-robot systems which were recently developed at IPK. These systems were designed for direct physical interaction between humans and robots. The principal structures and functions of the following robotic systems are briefly presented: ROBOPED, an advanced parallel robot for orthopedic diagnostics and rehabilitation, STRING-MAN, a wire robot for...

There is a worldwide need for tools to assist young children who learn English as a second language (ESL). The authors have been implementing two approaches to designing robot/child interaction activities for ESL children: one-on-one learning in play and smallgroup learning in play. In the former approach, a child interacted with an embodied robot individually to develop vocabulary and early li...