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Deceptive robots
Plan recognition in cooperative or adversarial situations requires the ability to reason with beliefs. The problem is complicated in adversarial situations because an opponent may employ deception. In this case, an agent must also be able to reason about an opponent's beliefs (nested beliefs) as …
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Towards realising multimodal robots
… this area, it is still not possible to generate robots that perform better than conventional manual designs, even for simple tasks. This thesis describes steps undertaken to improve the co-evolution process. The investigation concerns two key areas of co-evolutionary robotics. The first is in …
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Mapping with mobile robots
… to generate maps of RFID tags with mobile robots. We present <br>a sensor model that allows us to compute the likelihood of tag <br>detections given the relative position of the tag with respect to the <br>robot. Additionally we describe how to compute a posterior about the <br>position of …
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Towards expressive mobile robots
Given the increase in robotic systems for the household, it is imperative to design the expressive modes of these systems, that in turn engender likability, animacy, acceptance, trust and adoption. This paper approaches this problem by proposing a design methodology that can be used to abstract …
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Natural communication with robots
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1994.
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Ambivalence in attitudes towards robots
… topic of ambivalent attitudes towards robots from an experimental social psychological perspective. While ambivalence has been a research topic for almost a hundred years, it is often overlooked in the context of attitude research. When an attitude towards an attitude object is not …
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Tactile perception of cognitive robots
Compared to other modalities like vision, tactile sensing has been so far neglected by robotic researchers. At the time of writing, tactile sensing devices that can just approach the performance of the human sense of touch seem out of reach. Despite this fact the use and exploitation of available …
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Design Of Proprioceptive Legged Robots
… the advent of the first power-autonomous legged robots, yet they have still not yet been deployed at scale. One fundamental challenge in legged machines is that actuators must perform work at relatively high speed in swing but also at high torque in stance. Legged machines must also be able to …
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Improving Interactions with Healthcare Robots
Background and Purpose: Social robots are currently being developed for use in healthcare environments. To date, little research has investigated how healthcare robots should behave in order to promote positive patient outcomes. Research on physician behaviour may inform the design of healthcare …
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Geodesic Problems for Mobile Robots
… computing optimal coordination of two polygonal robots without differential constraints. Each robot has a reference point that must lie on a network of paths called a roadmap. Each robot wants to move from its given initial location to its goal location without colliding with the other one. …
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Towards adaptive voice-controlled robots
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-03-28 without embargo terms
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Magnbots : actively controlled magnetic robots
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1997.
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Task level strategies for robots
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1994.
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Towards gestural understanding for intelligent robots
… is getting increasing attention are intelligent robots. Instead of offering a smartphone touch screen to select actions, these systems are intended to offer a more natural human-machine interface to their users. Out of the large range of actions performed by humans, gestures performed with the …
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Modelling, simulation, and control of robots
The continuous dynamic model of a robot is represented by nonlinear coupled differential equations. These can be discretized using first or second order Taylor's series approximations. One such model, the Greenspan Discrete Mechanics model appears to be the best for control applications. Global …
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Controlling Contact Transitions for Dynamic Robots
Legged robots, robotic manipulators, and their combined embodiment as humanoid robots have received considerable attention across both academia and industry. However, with few notable exceptions, state-of-the-art demonstrations are significantly less dynamic than their biological counterparts. A …
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Biomedical robots. Application to transnational medicine
Esta tesis trata sobre el análisis y diseño de robots biomédicos y su aplicación a la medicina traslacional. Se define un robot biomédico como el conjunto de técnicas provenientes de la matemática aplicada, estadística y ciencias de la computación capaces de analizar datos biomédicos de …
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Precision Navigation for Indoor Mobile Robots
… a precision navigation system for indoor mobile robots, developed to address deficiencies in the ROS navigation stack when used for precision navigation. It includes a precision localization subsystem, based on a planar laser scanner, wheel encoders, a gyroscope and an <em>a priori</em> map, and …
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