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Use of a Socially Assistive Robot as a Online Shopping Digital Skills Assistan
Scott Macleod, Mauro Dragone
This work proposes and analyses the application of a robotic platform as an digital skills assistant. analysing the ethical issues relating to the decision making process in the us…
Efficient quantitative assessment of robot swarms: coverage and targeting Lévy strategies
Siobhan Duncan, Gissell Estrada-Rodriguez, Jakub Stocek +3
Biologically inspired strategies have long been adapted to swarm robotic systems, including biased random walks, reaction to chemotactic cues and long-range coordination. In this p…
Co-Design of Assistive Robotics with Additive Manufacturing and Cyber-Physical Modularity to Improve Trust
Alexandre Colle, Ronnie Smith, Scott Macleod +1
Robotics and automation have the potential to significantly improve quality of life for people with assistive needs and their carers. Adoption of such technologies at this point in…
A Communication Layer for Integrated Sensors and Robotic ecology Solutions to Ambient Intelligence
Giuseppe Amato, Stefano Chessa, Mauro Dragone +2
This paper presents a communication framework built to simplify the construction of robotic ecologies, i.e., networks of heterogeneous computational nodes interfaced with sensors,…
Closing the Gap in Swarm Robotics Simulations: An Extended Ardupilot/Gazebo plugin
Hugo R. M. Sardinha, Mauro Dragone, Patricia A. Vargas
This work provides an extension of Ardupilot's capabilities to allow researchers to develop swarm robotics applications in Robot Operating System(ROS)/Gazebo simulations. Ardupilot…
An Agent-Based Approach to Component Management
David Lillis, Rem Collier, Mauro Dragone +1
This paper details the implementation of a software framework that aids the development of distributed and self-configurable software systems. This framework is an instance of a no…