The robotics is one of the most active areas. We also need to join a large number of disciplines to create robots. With these premises, one problem is the management of information from multiple heterogeneous sources. Each component, hardware or software, produces data with different nature: temporal frequencies, processing needs, size, type, etc. Nowadays, technologies and software engineering...

The robotics is one of the most active areas. We also need to join a large number of disciplines to create robots. With these premises, one problem is the management of information from multiple heterogeneous sources. Each component, hardware or software, produces data with different nature: temporal frequencies, processing needs, size, type, etc. Nowadays, technologies and software engineering...

Augmented Reality (AR) can provide to a Human Operator (HO) a real help in achieving complex tasks, such as remote control of robots and cooperative teleassistance. Using appropriate augmentations, the HO can interact faster, safer and easier with the remote real world. In this paper, we present an extension of an existing distributed software and network architecture for collaborative teleoper...

In recent years, researchers have been building home robots able to interact and work with people. However, due to the complexity and diversity of the environments for developing robots, it is difficult to share and reuse robot code created by different providers. In this work we present a servicebased approach that exploits the standard web interface to develop reusable robotic services. Our a...

Robots depend on captured images for perceiving the environment. A robot can replace a human in capturing quality photographs for publishing. In this paper, we employ an iterative photo capture by robots (by repositioning itself) to capture good quality photographs. Our image quality assessment approach is based on few high level features of the image combined with some of the aesthetic guideli...

Intelligent Autonomous Robots deployed in human environments must have understanding of the wide range of possible semantic identities associated with the spaces they inhabit – kitchens, living rooms, bathrooms, offices, garages, etc. We believe robots should learn this information through their own exploration and situated perception in order to uncover and exploit structure in their environme...

Service robots will have to accomplish more and more complex, open-ended tasks and regularly acquire new skills. In this work, we propose a new approach to generating plans for such household robots. Instead composing them from atomic actions, we propose to transform task descriptions on web sites like ehow.com into executable robot plans. We present methods for automatically converting the ins...

Sympa was designed to manage multiple mailing lists built on a common base, rather than being only side-byside mailing lists without any link between them. The system's architecture puts the virtual mailing list servers under the control of the various listmasters, each of which manages its own set of mailing lists. Like Apache’s virtual host, Sympa can manage numerous mailing list services (ca...

The web graph is a commonly-used network representation of the hyperlink structure of a website. A network of similar structure to the web graph, which we call the session graph has properties that reflect the browsing habits of the agents in the web server logs. In this paper, we apply session graphs to compare the activity of humans against web robots or crawlers. Understanding these properti...

Developing soft circuits from individual logic gates poses a unique challenge: with increasing numbers of gates, the design and implementation lead to inefficiencies due mathematically unoptimized wiring mistakes during assembly. It is therefore practically important introduce tools that support development circuits. We developed web-based graphical user interface, <italic xmlns:mml="http://www...