A long-term human robot interaction (HRI), which involves data storage of personal information, naturally raises ethical issues as a primary concern. This paper is an attempt to rise to this challenge by speculating how to best build and control a “roboethical” memory for a robot companion. We believe that memory is an essential feature in the design of a robot mind for this kind of longterm HR...

This paper is concerned with the passive walking of an underactuated biped robot. First, we present the modelling of the biped robot (that is a 7 DOF robot). Then, we focus on the study of the almost passive dynamic walking. In particular, we show that the application of a nonlinear feedback control to stabilize the torso and knees leads the biped robot to perform a stable almost-passive dynami...

Precise and accurate models of the world are critical to autonomous robot operation. Just as robot navigation typically requires an accurate map of the world, robot manipulation typically requires accurate models of the objects to be grasped. However, the statistical inference tools that enable robot mapping have not yet had the same impact in geometric object modelling. We describe an inferenc...

The paper proposes a feed-forward control strategy for mobile robot control that accounts for a non-linear model of the vehicle with interaction between inputs and outputs. It is possible to include specific model uncertainties in the dynamic model of the mobile robot in order to see how the control problem should be addressed taking into consideration the complete dynamic mobile robot model. B...

in this paper, a new approach to modify cable tension measuring mechanism is described; furthermore, the constructed boards which amplify load cell output are introduced. this approach has some advantages including of providing feedback for motors, evaluating the robot’s ultimate load carrying capacity, improving the motor control system and estimating the vibrating deflections of the end effec...

Received: 11 October 2010 Abstract Accepted: 25 November 2010 This paper analyses the issues of designing software for an autonomous robot, which is perceived as a real-time, multi-stage data processing system. We focus on a functional analysis of the data-driven world-modelling and motion planning tasks performed by the robot, and then we develop a multi-agent software architecture, which guar...

Obtaining mathematical equations to model the kinematics of a hyper-redundant robot is not intuitive and greater difficulty than for traditional robots. Depending on characteristics robot, most appropriate methodology approach modelling may be one or another. This article provides general overview different approaches there are when cable-driven while proposing guide help novel researcher that ...

This paper presents a paradigm for the organizational design of complex robotics missions. A mission with important strategic goals and involving a large number of technological resources and different decision levels, such as complex robotics based missions, can be modelled as an organization. To avoid compromising the strategic goals, organizations modelling principles must account for the ma...

Social robots need to understand the affective state of the humans with whom they interact. Successful interactions require understanding mood and emotion in the short term, and personality and attitudes over longer periods. Social robots should also be able to infer the desires, wishes, and preferences of humans without being explicitly told. We investigate how effectively affective state can ...

The development of mobile robots, capable of interacting with other agents in real-world environments, provides researchers in both Science and Engineering with a large body of theoretical and implementation problems that need to be overcome. One of these is the question of how to construct a complete robot control architecture, which allows the robot to perform different tasks, while processin...