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6 papers
Teaching Perception
Jonathan Connell
The visual world is very rich and generally too complex to perceive in its entirety. Yet only certain features are typically required to adequately perform some task in a given sit…
Verbal Programming of Robot Behavior
Jonathan Connell
Home robots may come with many sophisticated built-in abilities, however there will always be a degree of customization needed for each user and environment. Ideally this should be…
Where is My Stuff? An Interactive System for Spatial Relations
E. Akin Sisbot, Jonathan H. Connell
In this paper we present a system that detects and tracks objects and agents, computes spatial relations, and communicates those relations to the user using speech. Our system is a…
Structured Differential Learning for Automatic Threshold Setting
Jonathan Connell, Benjamin Herta
We introduce a technique that can automatically tune the parameters of a rule-based computer vision system comprised of thresholds, combinational logic, and time constants. This le…
Extensible Grounding of Speech for Robot Instruction
Jonathan Connell
Spoken language is a convenient interface for commanding a mobile robot. Yet for this to work a number of base terms must be grounded in perceptual and motor skills. We detail the…
Setting Up Pepper For Autonomous Navigation And Personalized Interaction With Users
Vittorio Perera, Tiago Pereira, Jonathan Connell +1
In this paper we present our work with the Pepper robot, a service robot from SoftBank Robotics. We had two main goals in this work: improving the autonomy of this robot by increas…