Giving advice to a mobile robot assistant still requires classical user interfaces. A more intuitive way of commanding is achieved by verbal or gesture commands. In this article, we present new approaches and enhancements for established methods that are in use in our laboratory. Our aim is to interact with a robot using natural and direct communication techniques fusioning these communication ...

Major innovations are based on novel input devices, for example, the mouse and its role in revolutionizing the PC world. Some innovations are even over-looked, such as the touch screen, until it made quite a trendy return in the shape of the Apple iPhone. All such specialized devices will dwarf into remote handling applications in the cloud by a generalized device, that is, the camera phone. Th...

NEW YORK (UPI) The New York Times released a presidential election survey yesterday which showed Richard M. Nixon in a commanding lead over both his rivals and George C. Wallace slightly ahead of Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey. The survey, made by Times correspondents o f political leaders in all 50 states, showed that as the campaign entered its final month Nixon was leading in 34 states wi...

squalid houses commanding even the most distant view of the proceedings were full of boys and girls anxious to catch a glimpse of the Prince. His Royal Highness, who passed to the platform amid terrific cheering, was accompanied by various officials of Guy's, and took his seat between Lord Goschen, the Treasurer of the Hospital, and Mr. Herbert Waring, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Londo...

On the basis of the experiments by Carli (1990) on the determinants of persuasion efficiency, we predicted that women are more effective using direct strategies in social influence to address women, and indirect strategies to address men; however, men’s efficiency should not depend on strategy. Two field experiments presented in this article did not confirm these assumptions. Our data suggest t...

This paper compares and contrasts several coordination schemes for a system that continuously plans to control collections of rovers or spacecraft using collective mission goals instead of goals or command sequences for each spacecraft. A collection of self-commanding robotic systems would autonomously coordinate itself to satisfy high level science and engineering goals in a changing partially...

This article discusses a proof-of-concept prototype for ground-based automatic generation of validated rover command sequences from high-level science and engineering activities. This prototype is based on ASPEN, the Automated Scheduling and Planning Environment. This artificial intelligence (AI)-based planning and scheduling system will automatically generate a command sequence that will execu...

UAVs are becoming indispensable assets for military command and control applications such as surveillance, reconnaissance, search and rescue operations because of their superiorities over manned vehicles. Nevertheless, humans are still needed for high-level guidance and commanding of UAVs in those operations for their intelligence and higher level of flexibility in decision making. Within this ...