The famous experiment by Gal-ileo—one of the founders of modern science—in Pisa's
Cathedral in 1582, was one of the very first examples of a scientific experiment validating a …

The reproducibility of experimental results is a key characteristic of the scientific method.
Despite that, in robotics and artificial intelligence (AI)—maybe for good reason—replicating …

There is, in the robotics community, a growing awareness of the difficulty to compare in a
rigorous quantitative way the many research results obtained in the many different …

How good is a robot? Three challenges arise from this question: first, defining performance
from the robot's observable behavior; second, quantifying performance with an index that is …

Even though research on autonomous robots and human-robot interaction accomplished
great progress in recent years, and reusable soft-and hardware components are available …

As robotics matures and increases in complexity, it is more necessary than ever that robot
autonomy research be reproducible. Compared to other sciences, there are specific …

It is comparatively easy to make computers exhibit adult-level performance on intelligence
tests or playing checkers, and difficult to give them the skills of a one-year-old when it comes …

Scientific experiments and robotic competitions share some common traits that can put the
debate about developing better experimental methodologies and replicability of results in …

Experimental Robotics: The 12th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics Page 1
springer tracts in advanced robotics 79 star Oussama Khatib Vijay Kumar Gaurav Sukhatme …

To design and develop capable, dependable, and affordable intelligent systems, their
performance must be measurable. Scientific methodologies for standardization and …