The Visual Neuroscience of Robotic Gras**
Achieving Sensorimotor Skills through Dorsal-Ventral Stream Integration
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Benchmarking Variable-Stiffness Grippers
Designs for grippers using variable-stiffness principles have become common in recent years. Researchers have developed various tests and setups to measure and validate the properties of their designs. However...
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Deep learning model based on expectation-confirmation theory to predict customer satisfaction in hospitality service
Customer satisfaction is one of the most important measures in the hospitality industry. Therefore, several psychological and cognitive theories have been utilized to provide appropriate explanations of custom...
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Multiple Path Planner Integration for Obstacle Avoidance: MoveIt! and Potential Field Planner Synergy
Nowadays, robots are more and more autonomous, they are able to investigate autonomously the surrounding environment, take decisions, and, of course, accomplish elaborated tasks receiving simple inputs by user...
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Gras** Strategies for Picking Items in an Online Shop** Warehouse
The purpose of this study is to investigate the most effective methodologies for the gras** of items in an environment where success, robustness and time of the algorithmic computation and its implementation...
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Multi-robot User Interface for Cooperative Transportation Tasks
In this research we attempt to build a user interface for controlling a group of omnidirectional robots to realize the transportation of convex shape edge objects. Our method establishes a manual guidance to t...
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Analysis of Variable-Stiffness Soft Finger Joints
This paper addresses the problem of designing an artificial finger with variable stiffness in its joints. Our approach is based on the principle of combining different means of actuation. Two different version...
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Personal Robot Assistants for Elderly Care: An Overview
The world’s population is ageing and, with that, new social issues arise, especially in terms of healthcare and daily activities. Despite the preference for human professional healthcare, the new socio-economi...
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An RGB-D Visual Application for Error Detection in Robot Gras** Tasks
The ability to grasp is a fundamental requirement for service robots in order to perform meaningful tasks in ordinary environments. However, its robustness can be compromised by the inaccuracy (or lack) of tac...
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Discovering the Relationship Between the Morphology and the Internal Model in a Robot System by Means of Neural Networks
Supervised machine learning techniques have proven very effective to solve the problems arising from model learning in robotics. A significant limitation of such approaches is that internal models learned for ...
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Open AccessDeterminants for the success of regional ICT ventures: a close examination of South Korea
This study identifies the key motivational factors in enhancing economic performance and increasing new job opportunities for information and communication technology ventures (ICTVs) in South Korea and examin...
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Introduction
This book introduces a full framework of the sequence of sensorimotor transformations required to plan and execute hand movements suitable to grasp nearby objects. Present day research on robotic vision-based ...
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The Neuroscience of Action and Perception
The visual cortex of humans and other primates is composed of two main information pathways, called ventral stream and dorsal stream in relation to their location in the brain. The traditional distinction (Ungerl...
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Vision-Based Gras**, Where Robotics Meets Neuroscience
This chapter describes how we model the integration of on-line, action-oriented visual information (dorsal pathway) with knowledge about the target object and memories of previous gras** experiences and obje...
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The Robot Programming Network
The Robot Programming Network (RPN) is an initiative for creating a network of robotics education laboratories with remote programming capabilities. It consists of both online open course materials and online ...
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Visuomotor Transformations for Grasp Planning and Execution
This chapter deals with the tasks of transforming object properties, relevant for gras** purposes, into suitable hand configurations, and executing an appropriate gras** action on the target object. Analyt...
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Intelligent Robotic Gras**?
Mutual interest between the fields of robotics and cognitive sciences has been steadily growing in the recent years, especially through the bridging of artificial intelligence research. Nevertheless, the diffe...
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Extraction of Grasp-Related Visual Features
This chapter describes how we model the integration of on-line, action-oriented visual information (dorsal pathway) with knowledge about the target object and memories of previous gras** experiences and obje...
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A Model of Artificial Genotype and Norm of Reaction in a Robotic System
The genes of living organisms serve as large stores of information for replicating their behavior and morphology over generations. The evolutionary view of genetics that has inspired artificial systems with a ...
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An Ever-Develo** Research Framework
This chapter presents a number of issues and developments related to possible extensions of the model in Chaps. 4, 5 and ...
