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Foundational Models for Manipulation Activity Parsing
Human demonstrations of everyday activities are an important resource to learn the particularities of the corresponding control strategies that are needed to perform such activities with ease and competence. H...
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Robotizing the Sterility Testing Process: Scientific Challenges for Bringing Agile Robots into the Laboratory
This article provides a detailed description of the membrane-based sterility testing process, the use case selected in the Horizon Europe project TraceBot for demonstrating the benefit of agile robotics in a l...
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Ein interaktives strategisches Missionsmanagementsystem für intuitive Mensch-Roboter-Kooperation
Um die kooperative Aufgabenplanung und Koordination zwischen dem menschlichen Bediener und Roboterteams zu ermöglichen, werden neue Arten von Schnittstellen benötigt. Wir präsentieren ein interaktives strategi...
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Trustworthiness and Well-Being: The Ethical, Legal, and Social Challenge of Robotic Assistance
If a technology lacks social acceptance, it cannot realize dissemination into society. The chapter thus illuminates the ethical, legal, and social implications of robotic assistance in care and daily life. It ...
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Cognition-Enabled Robots Assist in Care and Everyday Life: Perspectives, Challenges, and Current Views and Insights
The chapter focuses on research on robotic assistants and the involved challenge of their manipulating the physical world. It describes the state of the art in this regard and outlines directions for future re...
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Robots Collecting Data: Modelling Stores
Retail stores are a promising application domain for autonomous robotics. Unlike other domains, such as households, the environments are more structured, products are designed to be easily recognizable, and it...
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Robotic Clerks: Autonomous Shelf Refilling
Nowadays, robots are used in the retail market mostly for warehousing, while they could be of great help in different in-store logistics processes as discussed in previous chapters. The present chapter deals w...
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Knowledge-Enabled Generation of Semantically Annotated Image Sequences of Manipulation Activities from VR Demonstrations
This work presents a cloud-to-edge framework capable of collecting and annotating synthetic images from human performances in virtual environments with the purpose of enabling the training and deployment of ro...
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Semantic Digital Twins for Retail Logistics
As digitization advances, stationary retail is increasingly enabled to develop novel retail services aiming at enhancing efficiency of business processes ranging from in-store logistics to customer shop** ex...
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An Ontology for Failure Interpretation in Automated Planning and Execution
Autonomous indoor robots are supposed to accomplish tasks, like serve a cup, which involve manipulation actions, where task and motion planning levels are coupled. In both planning levels and execution phase, ...
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An Interactive Strategic Mission Management System for Intuitive Human-Robot Cooperation
To enable cooperative task planning and coordination between the human operator and robot teams, new types of interfaces are needed. We present an interactive strategic mission management system (ISMMS) for un...
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Data-Driven Synthesis of Perception Pipelines via Hierarchical Planning
Robotic systems in production environments have to adapt quickly to new situations and products to enable customization and short product cycles. This is especially true for the robot perception, which is sens...
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Information System for Storage, Management, and Usage for Embodied Intelligent Systems
Embodied intelligent agents that are equipped with sensors and actuators have unique characteristics and requirements regarding the storage, management, and usage of information. The goal is to perform intenti...
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From Research to Market: Building the Perception Systems for the Next Generation of Industrial Robots
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Episodic Memories for Safety-Aware Robots
In the factories and distribution centers of the future, humans and robots shall work together in close proximity and even physically interact. This shift to joint human–robot teams raises the question of how ...
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Special Issue on Smart Production
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Perception-Guided Mobile Manipulation Robots for Automation of Warehouse Logistics
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Dempster-Shafer theoretic resolution of referential ambiguity
Robots designed to interact with humans in realistic environments must be able to handle uncertainty with respect to the identities and properties of the people, places, and things found in their environments....
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Open AccessSolvatochromic covalent organic frameworks
Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are an emerging class of highly tuneable crystalline, porous materials. Here we report the first COFs that change their electronic structure reversibly depending on the surro...
