Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems
17th Annual Conference, TAROS 2016, Sheffield, UK, June 26--July 1, 2016, Proceedings
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The natural world has developed very effective methods for dealing with pathogens that are invading an organism. By taking inspiration from the in-built, innate, response this paper develops a new algorithm th...
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Software systems that rely on ad-hoc networks are becoming increasingly complex and increasingly prevalent. Some of these systems provide vital functionality to military operations, emergency services and disa...
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This position paper describes ongoing work at the Universities of Liverpool, Sheffield and Surrey in the UK on develo** hybrid agent architectures for controlling autonomous systems, and specifically for en...
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Software systems that rely on ad-hoc networks are increasingly complex and prevalent. Some of these systems provide vital functionality to emergency services, military operations, and disaster relief; such sys...
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In this paper we describe a novel scenario, whereby an assistive robot is required to use a lift, and results from a preliminary investigation into floor determination using readily-available information. The ...
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Human-Robot-Interaction (HRI) research is often built around the premise that the robot is serving to assist a human in achieving a human-led goal or shared task. However, there are many circumstances during H...
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17th Annual Conference, TAROS 2016, Sheffield, UK, June 26--July 1, 2016, Proceedings
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The shift towards more collaborative working between humans and robots increases the need for improved interfaces. Alongside robust measures to ensure safety and task performance, humans need to gain the confi...
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We report on experiences in the development of hybrid autonomous systems where high-level decisions are made by a rational agent. This rational agent interacts with other sub-systems via an abstraction engine. We...
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OpenCV is a commonly used computer vision library containing a wide variety of algorithms for the AI community. This paper uses deep parameter optimisation to investigate improvements to face detection using the ...
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Human robot interaction (HRI) often considers the human impact of a robot serving to assist a human in achieving their goal or a shared task. There are many circumstances though during HRI in which a robot may...
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Collaborative robots, or ‘co-bots’, are a transformational technology that bridge traditionally segregated manual and automated manufacturing processes. However, to realize its full potential, human operators ...
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As robots become more ubiquitous, and their capabilities extend, novice users will require intuitive instructional information related to their use. This is particularly important in the manufacturing sector, ...
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Visual odometry can be used to estimate the pose of a robot from current and recent video frames. A problem with these methods is that they drift over time due to the accumulation of estimation errors at each ...
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Simultaneous localisation and map** (SLAM) relies on low-cost on-board sensors such as cameras and inertial measurement units. It is crucial that the surroundings are visible to the cameras to maximise the a...
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Scene Visibility Estimation offers a collection of metrics that give a good indication of the quality of images that are being supplied to a Visual or Visual-Inertial Simultaneous Location and Map** algorith...