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This paper investigates approaches capable of inducing sensations of tele-presence in robotic tele-operations. Operator's control actions are simpler, if he feels being in the remote environment. The goal is to replicate some conditions of the remote environment to let operator's perception behaviours approximate to the natural ones. Since immersion aims at providing stimulus to trick the sensory...
Flying insects are capable of a wide-range of flight and cognitive behaviors which are not currently understood. The replication of these capabilities is of interest to miniaturized robotics, because they share similar size, weight, and energy constraints. Currently, embodiment of insect behavior is primarily done on ground robots which utilize simplistic sensors and have different constraints to...
This paper presents a framework that enables a robot to discover various object categories through interaction. The categories are described using action-effect relations, i.e., sensorimotor contingencies rather than more static shape or appearance representation. The framework provides a functionality to classify objects and the resulting categories, associating a class with a specific module. We...
One of the major obstacles in the study of human-robot interaction with social robots is the lack of platforms to allow for tests with large user groups. Often, the price of these robots prohibits using more than a handful of robots. Another factor is that with commercial platforms, the robots do not possess all the necessary features to perform an experiment and due to the closed nature of the platform,...
The novel deep learning paradigm offers a highly biologically plausible way to train neural network architectures with many layers, inspired by the hierarchical organization of the human brain. Indeed, deep learning gives a new dimension to research modeling human cognitive behaviors, and provides new opportunities for applications in cognitive robotics. In this paper, we present a novel deep neural...
Tele-operation can enable an operator to control a robot remotely in inaccessible and hazardous environments. However, controlling a robot remotely via a conventional monitor and control panel can be difficult and slow. To achieve faster and more dexterous operation of the robot, enhanced 3D perception and some form of tactile or neural feedback is needed to achieve some degree of embodiment within...
This paper is an introduction to the Mobiligence Program by MEXT (the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology) from 2005 through 2009. The concept, subject, methodology, and results regarding the Mobiligence Program are discussed. Next, the future of mobiligence research is proposed with respect to a research target (the methodology focusing on embodiment) and research...
Autonomous robots need to learn intelligent behaviour by interacting with the real world and adapting to changing environments. In order to study the adaptive behaviour of intelligent systems, an autonomous humanoid robot has been developed which understands goals, senses its environment in context with the goal and operates independently by means of experience gathering and a self-generating will.
This paper describes the design and initial evaluation of Dewey, a do-it-yourself (DIY) robot prototype aimed to help users manage break-taking in the workplace. We describe the application domain, prototyping and technical implementation, and evaluation of Dewey in a real office environment to show how research using simple prototypes can provide valuable insights into user needs and practices at...
Recent discussions in cognitive robotics have emphasised the role of embodiment and developmental learning. A novel developmental memory-based cognitive framework, and its associated computational architecture, is presented. This framework emphasises the low level sensory-motor aspects of developmental learning as a basis upon which higher-order cognitive functions can be bootstrapped autonomously...
HRI researchers interested in social robots have made large investments in humanoid robots. There is still sparse evidence that peoples' responses to robots differ from their responses to computer agents, suggesting that agent studies might serve to test HRI hypotheses. To help us understand the difference between people's social interactions with an agent and a robot, we experimentally compared people's...
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