Polonius is a robot control interface designed for running Wizard of Oz style experiments. It
is designed to be easy enough to be used by the non-programmer collaborators of …

Abstract Wizard-of-Oz (WoZ) is a common technique enabling HRI researchers to explore
aspects of interaction not yet backed by autonomous systems. A standardized, open, and …

Wizard-of-Oz experiments play a vital role in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), as they allow
for quick and simple hypothesis testing. Still, a publicly available general tool to conduct …

Player/Stage/Gazebo is an Open-Source Software project designed for robotics research
that provides infrastructure for distributed access to robotics equipment both real and …

Simulators are useful for developing robotic software modules. We have developed RT
components for using a realistic simulator for robotics, MORSE. Adopting the interface …

Abstract The Robot Operating System (ROS) has been steadily gaining popularity among
robotics researchers as an open source framework for robot control. The Unified System for …

Setting up robot environments to quickly test newly developed algorithms is still a difficult
and time consuming process. This presents a significant hurdle to researchers interested in …

The primary goal of the robot operating system (ROS) is to enable researchers around the
world to share code and replicate the results of other laboratories. The ROS build system …

The Robot Operating System (ROS) is steadily gaining popularity among robotics
researchers as an open source framework for robot control. Additionally, the Unified System …

This paper evaluates the usability of the robot middleware, ROS (Robot Operating System),
and the robot simulation environment, Gazebo, with the help of experimental testing on a …