Human factors and human-centered design philosophy are highly desired in today's robotics applications such as human-robot interaction (HRI). Several studies showed that endowing robots of human-like skills can not only make them more likeable but also improve their performance. In particular, skill transfer by imitation learning increase the usability acceptability users without computer progr...

The navigation of a humanoid robot is essential because it the basic requirement any assigned task. Singly used motion planning techniques may take long path to reach target and increase computational cost. Therefore, in this article, hybrid controller employed NAO for assignment. Eagle strategy (ES) with Ant colony optimization (ACO) introduced article evaluating precise steering angles robots...

Simultaneous identification of both structural parameters and ground motion of an earthquake-excited structure by using measured structural response time histories only has received great interests in recent years. A hybrid identification method is proposed in this paper for the problem concerned. The hybrid identification method first identifies the structural parameters above the first floor ...

Based on a nonlinear hybrid dynamical systems model a new planning method for optimal coordination and control of multiple unmanned vehicles is investigated. The time dependent hybrid state of the overall system consists of discrete (roles, actions) and continuous (e.g. position, orientation, velocity) state variables of the vehicles involved. The evolution in time of the system’s hybrid state ...