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Offline Skill Generalization via Task and Motion Planning
Shin Watanabe, Geir Horn, Jim Tørresen +1
This paper presents a novel approach to generalizing robot manipulation skills by combining a sampling-based task-and-motion planner with an offline reinforcement learning algorith…
Robotics in Elderly Healthcare: A Review of 20 Recent Research Projects
Weria Khaksar, Diana Saplacan, Lee Andrew Bygrave +1
Studies show dramatic increase in elderly population of Western Europe over the next few decades, which will put pressure on healthcare systems. Measures must be taken to meet thes…
Reinforcement Learning-based Switching Controller for a Milliscale Robot in a Constrained Environment
Abbas Tariverdi, Ulysse Côté-Allard, Kim Mathiassen +4
This work presents a reinforcement learning-based switching control mechanism to autonomously move a ferromagnetic object (representing a milliscale robot) around obstacles within…
Differences of Human Perceptions of a Robot Moving using Linear or Slow in, Slow out Velocity Profiles When Performing a Cleaning Task
Trenton Schulz, Patrick Holthaus, Farshid Amirabdollahian +3
We investigated how a robot moving with different velocity profiles affects a person's perception of it when working together on a task. The two profiles are the common linear prof…
Environmental Adaptation of Robot Morphology and Control through Real-world Evolution
Tønnes F. Nygaard, Charles P. Martin, David Howard +2
Robots operating in the real world will experience a range of different environments and tasks. It is essential for the robot to have the ability to adapt to its surroundings to wo…
Two-Stage Transfer Learning for Heterogeneous Robot Detection and 3D Joint Position Estimation in a 2D Camera Image using CNN
Justinas Miseikis, Inka Brijacak, Saeed Yahyanejad +3
Collaborative robots are becoming more common on factory floors as well as regular environments, however, their safety still is not a fully solved issue. Collision detection does n…
Evolving Robots on Easy Mode: Towards a Variable Complexity Controller for Quadrupeds
Tønnes Frostad Nygaard, Charles Patrick Martin, Jim Torresen +1
The complexity of a legged robot's environment or task can inform how specialised its gait must be to ensure success. Evolving specialised robotic gaits demands many evaluations -…
Animation Techniques in Human-Robot Interaction User Studies: a Systematic Literature Review
Trenton Schulz, Jim Torresen, Jo Herstad
There are many different ways a robot can move in Human-Robot Interaction. One way is to use techniques from film animation to instruct the robot to move. This article is a systema…
Transfer Learning for Unseen Robot Detection and Joint Estimation on a Multi-Objective Convolutional Neural Network
Justinas Miseikis, Inka Brijacak, Saeed Yahyanejad +3
A significant problem of using deep learning techniques is the limited amount of data available for training. There are some datasets available for the popular problems like item r…
Multi-Objective Convolutional Neural Networks for Robot Localisation and 3D Position Estimation in 2D Camera Images
Justinas Miseikis, Inka Brijacak, Saeed Yahyanejad +3
The field of collaborative robotics and human-robot interaction often focuses on the prediction of human behaviour, while assuming the information about the robot setup and configu…
Real-World Evolution Adapts Robot Morphology and Control to Hardware Limitations
Tønnes F. Nygaard, Charles P. Martin, Eivind Samuelsen +2
For robots to handle the numerous factors that can affect them in the real world, they must adapt to changes and unexpected events. Evolutionary robotics tries to solve some of the…
Exploring Mechanically Self-Reconfiguring Robots for Autonomous Design
Tønnes F. Nygaard, Charles P. Martin, Jim Torresen +1
Evolutionary robotics has aimed to optimize robot control and morphology to produce better and more robust robots. Most previous research only addresses optimization of control, an…
Self-Modifying Morphology Experiments with DyRET: Dynamic Robot for Embodied Testing
Tønnes F. Nygaard, Charles P. Martin, Jim Torresen +1
If robots are to become ubiquitous, they will need to be able to adapt to complex and dynamic environments. Robots that can adapt their bodies while deployed might be flexible and…
Robot Localisation and 3D Position Estimation Using a Free-Moving Camera and Cascaded Convolutional Neural Networks
Justinas Miseikis, Patrick Knobelreiter, Inka Brijacak +4
Many works in collaborative robotics and human-robot interaction focuses on identifying and predicting human behaviour while considering the information about the robot itself as g…
Multi 3D Camera Mapping for Predictive and Reflexive Robot Manipulator Trajectory Estimation
Justinas Miseikis, Kyrre Glette, Ole Jakob Elle +1
With advancing technologies, robotic manipulators and visual environment sensors are becoming cheaper and more widespread. However, robot control can be still a limiting factor for…
Automatic Calibration of a Robot Manipulator and Multi 3D Camera System
Justinas Miseikis, Kyrre Glette, Ole Jakob Elle +1
With 3D sensing becoming cheaper, environment-aware and visually-guided robot arms capable of safely working in collaboration with humans will become common. However, a reliable ca…