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• Introduction Rational Agents Strategic Games Coordination Partial Observability Mechanism Design Learning.
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Multiagent systems is an expanding field that blends classical fields like game theory and decentralized control with modern fields like computer science and machine learning. This monograph provides a concise introduction to the subject, covering the theoretical foundations as well as more recent developments in a coherent and readable manner. The text is centered on the concept of an agent as decision maker. Chapter 1 is a short introduction to the field of multiagent systems. Chapter 2 covers the basic theory of singleagent decision making under uncertainty. Chapter 3 is a brief introduction to game theory, explaining classical concepts like Nash equilibrium. Chapter 4 deals with the fundamental problem of coordinating a team of collaborative agents. Chapter 5 studies the problem of multiagent reasoning and decision making under partial observability. Chapter 6 focuses on the design of protocols that are stable against manipulations by self-interested agents. Chapter 7 provides a short introduction to the rapidly expanding field of multiagent reinforcement learning. The material can be used for teaching a half-semester course on multiagent systems covering, roughly, one chapter per lecture.
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• Aerial Vehicles progress On Pico Air Vehicles.- Perception and Mapping.- Planning.- Systems and Integration.- Control.
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This volume presents a collection of papers presented at the 15th International Symposium of Robotic Research (ISRR). ISRR is the biennial meeting of the International Foundation of Robotic Research (IFRR) and its 15th edition took place in Flagstaff, Arizona on December 9 to December 12, 2011. As for the previous symposia, ISRR 2011 followed up on the successful concept of a mixture of invited contributions and open submissions. Therefore approximately half of the 37 contributions were invited contributions from outstanding researchers selected by the IFRR officers and the program committee, and the other half were chosen among the open submissions after peer review. This selection process resulted in a truly excellent technical program which featured some of the very best of robotic research. The program was organized around oral presentation in a single-track format and included for the first time a small number of interactive presentations. The symposium contributions contained in this volume report on a variety of new robotics research results covering a broad spectrum including perception, manipulation, grasping, vehicles and design, navigation, control and integration, estimation and SLAM. .
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• Swarm and multi-robotic systems.- Human-robot interaction.- Robotic learning and imitation.- Robot navigation, planning and safety.- Humanoid and bio-inspired robots.- Mobile robots and vehicles.- Robot testing and design.- Detection and recognition.- Learning and adaptive behaviours.- Interaction.- Soft and reconfigurable robots.- Service and industrial robots.
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference on Towards Autonomous Robotics, TAROS 2017, held in Guildford, UK, in July 2017. The 43 revised full papers presented together with 13 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 66 submissions. The papers discuss robotics research drawn from a wide and diverse range of topics, such as swarm and multi-robotic systems; human-robot interaction; robotic learning and imitation; robot navigation, planning and safety; humanoid and bio-inspired robots; mobile robots and vehicles; robot testing and design; detection and recognition; learning and adaptive behaviours; interaction; soft and reconfigurable robots; and service and industrial robots.
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• The DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals: Results and Perspectives.- Robot System of DRC-HUBO+ and Control Strategy of Team KAIST in DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals.- Team IHMC's Lessons Learned from the DARPA Robotics Challenge: Finding Data in the Rubble.- Developing a Robust Disaster Response Robot: CHIMP and the Robotics Challenge.- DRC Team NimbRo Rescue: Perception and Control for Centaur-like Mobile Manipulation Robot Momaro.- Team RoboSimian: Semi-autonomous Mobile Manipulation at the 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals.- Director: A User Interface Designed for Robot Operation with Shared Autonomy.- Achieving Reliable Humanoid Robot Operations in the DARPA Robotics Challenge: Team WPI-CMU's Approach.- Team DRC-Hubo@UNLV in 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals.- Team SNU's Control Strategies to Enhancing Robot's Capability: Lessons from the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals 2015.- Team THOR's Entry in the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals 2015.- Collaborative Autonomy Between High-level Behaviors and Human Operators for Control of Complex Tasks with Different Humanoid Robots.- WALK-MAN Humanoid Platform.- An Architecture for Human-Guided Autonomy: Team TROOPER at the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals.- Team VALOR's ESCHER: A Novel Electromechanical Biped for the DARPA Robotics Challenge.- Perspectives on Human-Robot Team Performance from an Evaluation of the DARPA Robotics Challenge.- What Happened at the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals.
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The DARPA Robotics Challenge was a robotics competition that took place in Pomona, California USA in June 2015. The competition was the culmination of 33 months of demanding work by 23 teams and required humanoid robots to perform challenging locomotion and manipulation tasks in a mock disaster site. The challenge was conceived as a response to the Japanese Fukushima nuclear disaster of March 2011. The Fukushima disaster was seen as an ideal candidate for robotic intervention since the risk of exposure to radiation prevented human responders from accessing the site. This volume, edited by Matthew Spenko, Stephen Buerger, and Karl Iagnemma, includes commentary by the organizers, overall analysis of the results, and documentation of the technical efforts of 15 competing teams. The book provides an important record of the successes and failures involved in the DARPA Robotics Challenge and provides guidance for future needs to be addressed by policy makers, funding agencies, and the robotics research community. Many of the papers in this volume were initially published in a series of special issues of the Journal of Field Robotics. We have proudly collected versions of those papers in this STAR volume. .
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, SAB 2018, held in Frankfurt/Main, Germany, in August 2018.The 21 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 39 submissions. They cover the main areas in animat research, including the animat approach and methodology, perception and motor control, action selection and navigation, learning and adaptation, and collective and social behavior.
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• Multi-agent Systems and Distributed Control.- Human-Machine Interaction.- Rehabilitation Robotics.- Industrial Robot and Robot Manufacturing.- Sensors and Actuators.- Robot Grasping and Control.- Mobile Robotics and Path Planning.- Robotic Vision, Recognition and Reconstruction.- Robot Intelligence and Learning.
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The two volume set LNAI 10984 and LNAI 10985 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2018, held in Newcastle, NSW, Australia, in August 2018. The 81 papers presented in the two volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 129 submissions. The papers in the first volume of the set are organized in topical sections on multi-agent systems and distributed control; human-machine interaction; rehabilitation robotics; sensors and actuators; and industrial robot and robot manufacturing. The papers in the second volume of the set are organized in topical sections on robot grasping and control; mobile robotics and path planning; robotic vision, recognition and reconstruction; and robot intelligence and learning.
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• Robotics.- Artificial intelligence.- Environment perception.- State estimation.- Pattern recognition.- Sensor fusion.- Action planning.- Control theory.- Robot learning.- Human-robot interaction.- Multi-agent systems.- Simultaneous localization and mapping.- Object manipulation.- Locomotion.- RoboCup.- Robot competition. .
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This book includes the post-conference proceedings of the 20th RoboCup International Symposium, held in Leipzig, Germany, in July 2016. In addition to the 38 contributions to the symposium, selected from 63 submissions, the book also contains 15 champion papers of teams winning individual leagues of the RoboCup 2016 competition, the Amazon Picking Challenge, and the Harting Open Source Award. The papers present current research in the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence with a special focus to robot hardware and software, environment perception, action planning and control, robot learning, multi-robot systems, and human-robot interaction.
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• Part I Global Robot Path Planning
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• Introduction to Mobile Robot Path Planning
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• Background on Artificial Intelligence Algorithms for Global Path Planning
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• Design and Evaluation of Intelligent Global Path Planning Algorithms 4.
• Integration of Global Path Planners in ROS
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• Robot Path Planning using Cloud Computing for Large Grid Maps
• Part II Multi-Robot Task Allocation
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• General Background on Multi-Robot Task Allocation
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• Different Approaches to Solve the MRTA Problem
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• Performance Analysis of the MRTA Approaches for Autonomous Mobile Robot .
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This book presents extensive research on two main problems in robotics: the path planning problem and the multi-robot task allocation problem. It is the first book to provide a comprehensive solution for using these techniques in large-scale environments containing randomly scattered obstacles. The research conducted resulted in tangible results both in theory and in practice. For path planning, new algorithms for large-scale problems are devised and implemented and integrated into the Robot Operating System (ROS). The book also discusses the parallelism advantage of cloud computing techniques to solve the path planning problem, and, for multi-robot task allocation, it addresses the task assignment problem and the multiple traveling salesman problem for mobile robots applications. In addition, four new algorithms have been devised to investigate the cooperation issues with extensive simulations and comparative performance evaluation. The algorithms are implemented and simulated in MATLAB and Webots.
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• Online Learning of Human Navigational Intentions.- Autonomous Assistance Control based on Inattention of the Driver when Driving a Truck Tract.- The Robotic Archetype: Character Animation and Social Robotics.- A proposed Wizard of OZ architecture for a Human-Robot Collaborative drawing task.- Factors and Development of Cognitive and Affective Trust on Social Robots.- Smiles of Children with ASD May Facilitate Helping Behaviors to the Robot.- If drones could see: investigating evaluations of a drone with eyes.- Validation of the Design of a Robot to Study the Thermo-Emotional Expression.- Training Autistic Children on Joint Attention Skills with a Robot.- Robotic Understanding of Scene Contents and Spatial Constraints.- Social Robots and Wearable Sensors for Mitigating Meltdowns in Autism - A Pilot Test.- Autonomous Control through the Level of Fatigue Applied to the Control of Autonomous Vehicles.- Dialogue Models for Socially Intelligent Robots.- Composable Multimodal Dialogues based on Communicative Acts.- How Should a Robot Interrupt a Conversation between Multiple Humans.- Grasping novel objects with real-time obstacle avoidance.- Augmenting Robot Knowledge Consultants with Distributed Short Term Memory.- 3D Virtual Path Planning for People with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis through Standing Wheelchair.- Physiological differences depending on task performed in a 5-day interaction scenario designed for the elderly: a pilot study.- Character Design and Validation on Aerial Robotic Platforms Using Laban Movement Analysis.- Social Robots in Public Spaces: A Meta-Review.- On the Design of a Full-actuated Robot Hand with Target Sensing Self-adaption and Slider Crank Mechanism.- Towards Dialogue-based Navigation with Multivariate Adaptation driven by Intention and Politeness for Social Robots.- Design and Implementation of Shoulder Exoskeleton Robot.- Cooperative Control of Sliding Mode for Multi-Mobile Manipulators.- When Should a Robot Apologize? Understanding how Timing Affects Human-Robot Trust Repair.- "Let There be Intelligence!"- A Novel Cognitive Architecture for Teaching Assistant Social Robots.- Virtual Social Toys: A Novel Concept to Bring Inanimate Dolls to Life
• Modular Robotic System for Nuclear Decommissioning.- A new model to enhance robot-patient communication: Applying insights from the medical world
• Towards Crossmodal Learning for SmoothMultimodal Attention Orientation.- A Two-step Framework for Novelty Detection in Activities of Daily Living.- Design of Robotic System for the Mannequin-Based Disinfection Training.- Learning to Win Games in a Few Examples: Using Game-Theory and Demonstrations to Learn the Win Conditions of a Connect Four Game.- Semantics Comprehension of Entities in Dictionary Corpora for Robot Scene Understanding.- The CPS-triangle: a suggested framework for evaluating robots in relation to everyday life.- Feature-based Monocular Dynamic 3D Object Reconstruction.- Adaptive Control of Human-interacted Mobile Robots with Velocity Constraint.- Attributing human-likeness to an avatar: the role of time and space in the perception of biological motion.- Dancing Droids: An Expressive Layer for Mobile Robots Developed Within Choreographic Practice.- Semantic-based interaction for teaching robot behavior compositions using spoken language.- Comfortable Passing Distances for Robots.- Reduced Sense of Agency in Human-Robot interaction.- Comparing the Effects of Social Robots and Virtual Agents on Exercising Motivation.- The Relevance of Social Cues in Assistive Training with a Social Robot.- Attitudes of Heads of Education and Directors of Research towards the Need for Social Robotics Education in Universities
• Coordinated and Cooperative Control of Heterogeneous Mobile Manipulators.- Robotic Healthcare Service System to Serve Multiple Patients with Multiple Robots.- Perception of Control in Artificial and Human Systems: A Study of Embodied Performance Interactions.- A Robotic Brush with Surface Tracing Motion Applied to the Face.- MagicHand: In-Hand Perception of Object Characteristics for Dexterous Manipulation.- Robots and Human Touch in Care: Desirable and Non-Desirable Robot Assistance.- The Effects of Gaze Following Behaviours of Driving Agents on Human-Autonomous Car Interaction.- Virtual Reality Social Robot Platform: A Case Study on Arash Social Robot.- Novel Siamese Robot Platform for Multi-Human Robot Interaction.- An Attention-aware Model for Human Action Recognition on Tree-based Skeleton Sequences.- Predicting the Target in Human-Robot Manipulation Tasks.- Imitating Human Movement Using a Measure of Verticality to Animate Low Degree-of-Freedom Non-humanoid Virtual Characters.- Adaptive Neural Control for Robotic Manipulators Under Constrained Task Space.- Multi-pose face registration method for social robot.
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2018, held in Qingdao, China, in November 2018.The 60 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 79 submissions. The theme of the 2018 conference is: Social Robotics and AI. In addition to the technical sessions, ICSR 2018 included 2 workshops:Smart Sensing Systems: Towards Safe Navigation and Social Human-Robot Interaction of Service Robots.
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• Learning Affordances for Assistive Robots.- Initial Design, Implementation and Technical Evaluation of a Context-aware Proxemics Planner for a Social Robot.- An Image based Non-verbal Behaviour analysis of HRI.- Do Social Rewards from Robots Enhance Offline Improvements in Motor Skills?.- How the Timing and Magnitude of Robot Errors Influence Peoples' Trust of Robots in an Emergency Scenarios.- The Iterative Development of the Humanoid Robot Kaspar: An Assistive Robot for Children with Autism.- The Interaction Between Voice and Appearance in the Embodiment of a Robot Tutor.- Shape It - The Influence of Robot Body Shape on Gender Perception in Robots.- A Telepresence Robot in Residential Care: Family Increasingly Present, Personnel Worried about Privacy.- Influence of Robot's Interaction Style on Performance in a Stroop Task.- `Autistic Robots' for Embodied Emulation of Behaviors Typically Seen in Children with Different Autism Severities.- Learning Relationships between Objects and Places by Multimodal Spatial Concept with Bag of Objects.- There once was a Robot Storyteller: Measuring the Effects of Emotion and non-verbal Behaviour.- Field testing of the influence of assistive wear on the physical fitness of nursing-care workers.- Developing Interaction Scenarios with a Humanoid Robot to Encourage Visual Perspective Taking Skills in Children with Autism - Preliminary Proof of Concept Tests.- Human-like Hand Reaching by Motion Prediction using Long Short-Term Memory.- User's Personality and Activity Influence on HRI Comfortable Distances.- A Need for Service Robots among Health Care Professionals in Hospitals and Housing Services.- Do you think I approve of that? Designing facial expressions for a robot.- Robotic Device to Mediate Human-Human Hug-Driven Remote Communication.- RoMa: A Hi-tech Robotic Mannequin for the Fashion Industry.- Walk the talk: Gestures in mobile interaction.- Gaze Behavioral Adaptation towards Group Members for Providing Effective Recommendations.- Subtle Reaction and Response Time Effects in Human-Robot Touch Interaction.- Young EFL learners' attitude towards RALL: an observational study focusing on motivation, anxiety, and interaction.- Design of a Cloud-Based Robotic Platform for Accompanying and Interacting with Humans.- Influence of Environmental Context on Recognition Rates.- Creating lively behaviors in social robots.- What Went Wrong and Why? Diagnosing Situated Interaction Failures in the Wild.- Toward 3D Printed Prosthetic Hands that can Satisfy Psychosocial Needs: Grasping Force Comparisons between a Prosthetic Hand and Human Hands.- Integrating a Humanoid Robot into ECHONET-based Smart Home Environments.- A Robot that Encourages Self-Disclosure by Hug.- Hand Gestures and Verbal Acknowledgments Improve Human-Robot Rapport.- Do Audio-Visual Stimuli Change Hug Impressions?.- Impact of Tutoring Strategies in Grounded Lexicon Learning.- Yes, Of Course? An Investigation on Obedience and Feelings of Shame towards a Robot.- Dance with me! Child-robot interaction in the wild.- Rethinking the Why of Socially Assistive Robotics through Design.- Role-oriented Designing: A Methodology to Designing for Appearance and Interaction Ways of Customized Professional Social Robots
• Exploring Users' Reactions Towards Tangible Implicit Probes for Measuring Human-Robot Engagement.- Gaze-Based Hints During Child - Robot GamePlay.- Gender Difference in Expectation for Domestic Robots: A Survey in Japan.- Motor Actions Predictions and Controls for the NAO Robot when Playing Hand Clapping Games.- The importance of mutual gaze in human-robot interaction.- About Decisions During Human-Robot Shared Plan Achievement: Who Should Act and How?.- Improving User's Performance by Motivation: Matching Robot Interaction Strategy with User's Regulatory State.- Social group motion in robots.- Shopping Mall Robots - Opportunities and Constraints from the Retailer and Manager Perspective.- Dynamic Gesture Recognition for Social Robots.- Embodiment, Privacy and Social Robots: May I remember you?.- A TV Chat Robot with Time-Shifting Function for Daily-Use Communication.- Naturalistic Conversational Gaze Control for Humanoid Robots - A First Step.- Design and Implementation of a Device Management System for Healthcare Assistive Robots: Sensor Manager System Version 2.- Dialogue Design for a Robot-Based Face-Mirroring Game to Engage Autistic Children with Emotional Expressions.- Look but Don't Stare: Mutual Gaze Interaction in Social Robots.- Recognition of Gestural Behaviors Expressed by a Humanoid Robotic Platform for Teaching Affect Recognition to Children with Autism - A Healthy Subjects Pilot Study.- A Visual Environment for Reactive Robot Programming of Macro-level Behaviors.- Hand in Hand with Robots: Differences between Experienced and Naive Users in Human-Robot Handover Scenarios.- Subjective Stress in Hybrid Collaboration.- Development of Control Mechanism for Safety Enhancement in Bilateral Control Robot Applications.- Understanding anthropomorphism: Anthropomorphism is not a reverse process of dehumanization.- An Evaluation Tool of the Effect of Robots in Eldercare on the Sense of Safety and Security.- Becoming Real: An Anthropological Approach to Evaluating Robots in the Real World.- Human Perceptions of the Severity of Domestic Robot Errors.- What Can We Learn from the Long-Term Users of a Social Robot?.- Adaptive Emotional Chatting Behavior to Increase the Sociability of Robots.- Measuring Children's Perceptions of Robots' Social Competence: Design and Validation.- Rule Extraction Method Considering Reliability for Synchronized Behavior of Group Robots in Multi-party Conversations.- Omnidirectional Traveling Instruction for Behavior Navigation.- News Application Adaptation based on User Sensory Profile.- Robot Compliant Behaviour with Mixed-Initiative Interaction in an Obstacle Avoidance Scenario.- "Xylotism": A Tablet-Based Application to Teach Music to Children with Autism.- Starting a Conversation by Multi-Robot Cooperative Behavior.- Adaptive Strategies for Multi-Party Interactions with Robots in Public Spaces.
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2016, held in Tsukuba, Japan, in November 2017.The 74 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 110 submissions. The theme of the 2017 conference is: Embodied Interactive Robots. In addition to the technical sessions, ICSR 2017 included four workshops: 1) Social Robot Intelligence for Social Human-Robot Interaction of Service Robots; 2) Human Safety and Comfort in Human-Robot Interactive Social Environments; 3) Modes of Interaction for Social Robots (MISR 2017): Postures, Gestures and Microinteractions; and 4) Religion in Robotics.
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