Nowadays, many robotic applications require robots making their own decisions and
adapting to different conditions and users. This work presents a biologically inspired …

Nowadays, robots and humans coexist in real settings where robots need to interact
autonomously making their own decisions. Many applications require that robots adapt their …

Autonomy is a prime issue on robotics field and it is closely related to decision making. Last
researches on decision making for social robots are focused on biologically inspired …

Modelling the biology behind animal behaviour has attracted great interest in recent years.
Nevertheless, neuroscience and artificial intelligence face the challenge of representing and …

The decisions made by social robots while they fulfill their tasks have a strong influence on
their performance. In these contexts, autonomous social robots must exhibit adaptive and …

In the last years, considerable research has been carried out to develop robots that can
improve our quality of life during tedious and challenging tasks. In these contexts, robots …

In this study, an autonomous social robot is living in a laboratory where it can interact with
several items (people included). Its goal is to learn by itself the proper behaviors in order to …

We describe the design and implementation of a socially assistive robot that is able to
monitor the performance of a user during a combined mental and physical task, with the …

One of the main challenges of social robots concerns the ability to guarantee robust,
contextualized and intelligent behavior capable of supporting continuous and personalized …

A robust perception system is crucial for natural human–robot interaction. An essential
capability of these systems is to provide a rich representation of the robot's environment …