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Chapter and Conference Paper
Digital Avatars: An Application to eHealth
The development of digital health technologies allows, among other advantages, the remote monitoring of patients’ state of health. In this context, smartphones have become Telemedicine tools, as they have a hi...
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Article
Open AccessVision-based techniques for automatic marine plankton classification
Plankton are an important component of life on Earth. Since the 19th century, scientists have attempted to quantify species distributions using many techniques, such as direct counting, sizing, and classificat...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Inner Speech: A Mechanism for Self-coordinating Decision Making Processes in Robotics
The experience of inner speech is a common one for humans, playing a relevant role in generating spontaneous responses to the context but also in regulating how we think and behave. Intimately tied to our sens...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Lightweight Cosmetic Contact Lens Detection System for Iris Recognition at a Distance
The deployment of an iris recognition framework highlighted the relevance of develo** a presentation attack detection (PAD) approach. The objective of this approach is to verify whether the acquired iris pat...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
QoS Metrics-in-the-Loop for Better Robot Navigation
Navigation is an essential capability in most robotic solutions, being basic in scenarios such as inspection and maintenance, or factory intralogistics. Moreover, with the advance of service robotics and its i...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
\(DSR_d\) : A Proposal for a Low-Latency, Distributed Working Memory for CORTEX
Robotics Cognitive Architectures (RCA) are becoming a key element in the design of robots that need to be aware of its surrounding space and of their role in it. This is especially important for robots that i...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Integration of the Alexa Assistant as a Voice Interface for Robotics Platforms
Virtual assistants such as Cortana or Google Assistant are becoming familiar devices in everyday environments, where they are used to control real devices through natural language. This paper extends this appl...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Design and Implementation of a Low Cost 3D Printed Adaptive Hand
Service robot are acquiring significant importance on everyday scenarios. They are able to provide relevant services to human beings like household tasks or hel** senior people to live independently. Neverth...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Visual Attention Mechanisms Revisited
Currently robots are evolving into an increasing complexity and have to support a large workload that directly affects their functions. To compensate this situation they must make a better use of their availab...
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Article
Special issue on cognitive robotics
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Chapter and Conference Paper
LifeBots I: Building the Software Infrastructure for Supporting Lifelong Technologies
The goal of the LifeBots project is the study and development of long-life mechanisms that facilitate and improve the integration of robotics platforms in smart homes to support elder and handicapped people. S...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
CLARC: A Cognitive Robot for Hel** Geriatric Doctors in Real Scenarios
Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) is an integrated clinical process to evaluate the frailty of elderly persons in order to create therapy plans that improve their quality of life. For robotizing these t...
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Article
Evaluating the Child–Robot Interaction of the NAOTherapist Platform in Pediatric Rehabilitation
NAOTherapist is a cognitive robotic architecture whose main goal is to develop non-contact upper-limb rehabilitation sessions autonomously with a social robot for patients with physical impairments. In order t...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A New Cognitive Architecture for Bidirectional Loop Closing
This paper presents a novel attention-based cognitive architecture for a social robot. This architecture aims to join perception and reasoning considering a double interplay: the current task biases the percep...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Navigation Agent for Mobile Manipulators
Robot navigation and manipulation in partially known indoor environments is usually organized as two complementary activities, local displacement control and global path planning. Both activities have to be co...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Unified Internal Representation of the Outer World for Social Robotics
Enabling autonomous mobile manipulators to collaborate with people is a challenging research field with a wide range of applications. Collaboration means working with a partner to reach a common goal and it in...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Segmentation and Classification of Geoenvironmental Zones of Interest in Aerial Images Using the Bounded Irregular Pyramid
The goal of this work is to automatically detect and classify a set of geoenvironmental zones of interest in panchromatic aerial images. Focused on a specific area, the zones to be detected are vegetation/mang...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Deep Representations for Collaborative Robotics
Collaboration is an essential feature of human social interaction. Briefly, when two or more people agree on a common goal and a joint intention to reach that goal, they have to coordinate their actions to eng...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Toward the Development of Cognitive Robots
With the aim of endowing robots with the ability to engage people in real social interactions, it is currently typical that novel architectures for robot control take into account in its internal design concep...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Merging Attention and Segmentation: Active Foveal Image Representation
Research on the brain information processing has focused on the interrelationships among cognitive processes. Thus, it is currently well-established that the units of attention on human vision are not merely s...
