Young children are remarkably prosocial towards humans. However, it is less clear what drives children’s prosociality towards non-human others. Here we explore the possibility that children’s moral regard stems from their understanding of others as autonomous beings. To investigate this possibility, we asked five and seven-yearold children to interact with a robot dog that appeared to be either...

Here in this paper we present a snake robot which can autonomously change its gait depending on the terrain. Also we present the design and construction details for the same. Here a custom simulator for the robot and an API for the same was developed which reduced the design and development time. For controlling the Snake robot manually a data glove using accelerometers was developed. The Snake...

A key challenge in developing engaging social robots is creating convincing, autonomous and responsive agents, which users perceive, and treat, as social beings. As a part of the collaborative project: Expressive Agents for Symbiotic Education and Learning (EASEL), this study examines the impact of autonomous response to children’s speech, by the humanoid robot Zeno, on their interactions with ...

A flexible manufacturing cell for the autonomous welding of large steel structures was developed in the European Commission’s Fifth Framework Programme “Growth”. The system consists of a mobile robot platform (robot transport vehicle or RTV), which carries all components for autonomous welding and the key technology of optical 3-D metrology, which determines the location of the robot platform a...

As a robot formation increases in size or explores places where it is difficult for a human operator to interact, autonomous control becomes critical. We propose a distributed autonomous method for evaluating properties of multi-robot systems, and then discuss how this information can be applied to improve performance with respect to a given operation. We present this as an extension of our pre...

One of the major components for the creation of autonomous robots is the ability of a robot to ‘plan its path’ that gives the robot much necessary capability of being autonomous. Though desirable, ‘pre-programming’ a robot for all possible cases or conditions will be impossible due to the fact that the number of motion combinations can be large or infinite. In this paper, we have enhanced a rob...

This paper addresses the local terrain mapping process for an autonomous robot. Building upon an onboard range measurement sensor and an existing robot pose estimation, we formulate a novel elevation mapping method from a robot-centric perspective. This formulation can explicitly handle drift of the robot pose estimation which occurs for many autonomous robots. Our mapping approach fully incorp...

Autonomous robot navigation with the capability to perceive the surrounding environment of the robot enhances the efficiency and safety of the robot. A technique for terrain classification for traversability assessment of mobile robot navigating in natural terrain by extracting the textural features from visual sensing of terrain data using co-occurrence matrix is presented in this paper. The a...

Within the HRI community, Wizard-of-Oz (WoZ) methods have been extensively used to explore robot interactions. However, their wide usage has also been criticized as not giving good representation of how real, autonomous robots can interact. In this paper, I argue that thoughtfully designed Wizard-of-Oz control interfaces can enable robot designers to explore the interaction design space fur hum...

Autonomous driving of mobile robot is important in various working environment. For its autonomous driving, mobile robot utilized ultrasonic sensor to detect obstacles and avoid them. Also, there has been researched on supplementing function of avoiding crash by using control methods based on adoption of intellectual system. This research has designed type-2 fuzzy selftuning PID controller whic...