Assistive robots introduce a new paradigm for developing advanced personalized services.
At the same time, the variability and stochasticity of environments, hardware and unknown …

A large annotated corpus is critical to the development of robust optical character
recognizers (OCRs). However, creation of annotated corpora is a tedious task. It is laborious …

This chapter explores the application of smart automation and social robots in the hospitality
and tourism industry. There has been much advancement in the field of social robotics but …

This work in the field of developmental cognitive robotics aims to devise a new domain
bridging between reinforcement learning and imitation learning, with a model of the intrinsic …

Integrating robots from multiple vendors into an automation ecosystem is a challenge that
hinders the deployment of industrial automation. The COVID-19 pandemic has added …

The xAAL home automation system has been designed on the basis of distributed systems
principles with messages passing and home network communications over IP. The proposal …

In this work, we set the bases of the integration of ambient intelligence (AmI) with mobile
robot teams (MRT), aiming to enhance ambient assisted living services addressing a variety …

This article describes IOT enhancements in a smart house so as to provide a calm
computing environment. Experimental studies using a portable wireless EEG-casket indicate …

Abstract This paper presents Base Cube One (BCO), an architecture for smart environments
that organizes devices and functionality in a location-addressable service-oriented schema …

Affective human robot interaction (HRI) is quite complex since the robot interacts not only
with the human but also with the environment. Providing robots with emotional intelligence is …