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Gema Fernández-Blanco Martín, Fernando Matía, Lucía García Gómez-Escalonilla, Daniel Galan, M. Guadalupe Sánchez-Escribano, Paloma de la Puente and Mario Rodríguez-Cantelar
Personal assistants and social robotics have evolved significantly in recent years thanks to the development of artificial intelligence and affective computing. Today?s main challenge is achieving a more natural and human interaction with these systems. ...
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Guoray Cai and Yimu Pan
Room usage semantics in models of large indoor environments such as public buildings and business complex are critical in many practical applications, such as health and safety regulations, compliance, and emergency response. Existing models such as Indo...
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Jyoti Neupane, Joe Mari Maja, Gilbert Miller, Michael Marshall, Matthew Cutulle and Jun Luo
Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) is an important industrial crop. It is a perennial crop and has indeterminate growth habit, however, in most parts of the United States, it is grown as an annual crop with the application of growth regulators. Defoliation i...
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Anirban Chowdhury and Rithvik Ramadas
Insect swarms and migratory birds are known to exhibit something known as a hive mind, collective consciousness, and herd mentality, among others. This has inspired a whole new stream of robotics known as swarm intelligence, where small-sized robots perf...
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Antonio Victor Alencar Lundgren, Matheus Albert Oliveira dos Santos, Byron Leite Dantas Bezerra and Carmelo José Albanez Bastos-Filho
The simultaneous surges in the research on socially assistive robotics and that on computer vision can be seen as a result of the shifting and increasing necessities of our global population, especially towards social care with the expanding population i...
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Janika Leoste, Larissa Jõgi, Tiia Õun, Luis Pastor, José San Martín López and Indrek Grauberg
Emerging technologies (ETs) will most likely have a strong impact on education (starting with higher education), just like they have already had in so many economic and social areas. This paper is based on the results obtained in the project ?My Future C...
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Madeleine E. Bartlett, Cristina Costescu, Paul Baxter and Serge Thill
The last few decades have seen widespread advances in technological means to characterise observable aspects of human behaviour such as gaze or posture. Among others, these developments have also led to significant advances in social robotics. At the sam...
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Stefano Mariani and Andrea Omicini
Multi-agent systems (MAS) are built around the central notions of agents, interaction, and environment. Agents are autonomous computational entities able to pro-actively pursue goals, and re-actively adapt to environment change. In doing so, they leverag...
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Anas Abou Allaban, Maozhen Wang and Taskin Padir
The aging population is growing at an unprecedented rate globally and robotics-enabled solutions are being developed to provide better independent living for older adults. In this study, we report the results from a systematic review of the state-of-the-...
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Francisco Martín, Francisco J. Rodríguez Lera, Jonatan Ginés and Vicente Matellán
This paper presents the evolution of a robotic architecture intended for controlling autonomous social robots. The first instance of this architecture was originally designed according to behavior-based principles. The building blocks of this architectur...
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