Common sense knowledge can be efficiently collected from non-experts over the web in a similar fashion to the Open Mind family of distributed knowledge capture projects. We descri...
Abstract— Finite-range sensing and communication are factors in the connectivity of a dynamic mobile robot network. State estimation becomes a difficult problem when communicati...
Keith Yu Kit Leung, Timothy D. Barfoot, Hugh H. T....
—The aim of this paper is to enable a programmer to easily employ external sensors for flexible robot manipulation. We describe a general approach to determine the relation betwe...
Abstract— Today most robots interact with the surroundings only with their end-effectors. However there are many benefits to utilizing contact along the entire length of robot b...
Abstract— Imitation learning, or programming by demonstration (PbD), holds the promise of allowing robots to acquire skills from humans with domain-specific knowledge, who nonet...