Autonomous robots facing a diversity of open environments and performing a variety of tasks
and interactions need explicit deliberation in order to fulfill their missions. Deliberation is …

Autonomous mobile robots are required to move throughout map the environment, locate
themselves, and plan paths between positions. Vision stands out among the other senses …

This paper describes our experience in designing, developing and deploying systems for
supporting human–robot teams during disaster response. It is based on R&D performed in …

In this work, we consider a scenario in which a human operator physically interacts with a
collaborative robot (CoBot) to perform shared and structured tasks. We assume that …

In this paper, we present the robot programming and planning language Readylog, a Golog
dialect, which was developed to support the decision making of robots acting in dynamic …

A robotic system that interacts with humans is expected to flexibly execute structured
cooperative tasks while reacting to unexpected events and behaviors. In this paper, we face …

In social and service robotics, complex collaborative tasks are expected to be executed
while interacting with humans in a natural and fluent manner. In this scenario, the robotic …

This work proposes a high-level control system designed for an Aerial Service Vehicle
capable of performing complex tasks in close and physical interaction with the environment …

To interact with humans, robots will possess a software architecture much more complete
than current robots and be equipped with new functionalities. The purpose of this chapter is …

The selective attention mechanism is employed by humans and primates to realize a truly
intelligent perception system, which has the cognitive capability of learning and thinking …