This paper introduces a multi-agent system (MAS) approach using the detailed process
provided by Prometheus methodology for the design of a moving robot application for the …

Hospital nurse regularly bring her instrument to the patient using cart. They need to push or
pull the cart to the patient bed and bring it back many times in a day. This can be tiresome for …

Human following is an important feature in various human-mobile-robot collaboration
applications. Vision-based human following approaches employing visual servoing controls …

Mobile robots are nowadays capable of navigating in a semi-structured environment, either
alone or in formations. Dealing with mobile obstacles, eg persons, in everyday environments …

Elderly people need either a caretaker or a cart to carry their belongings in and around their
house or to/from nearby places, like a shopping mall, bus stop etc. This paper reports the …

This brief article describes the highlights of the first two years of activities of ROBOCARE, an
Italian research project aimed at developing intelligent software and robotic agents which …

In this paper, an online self-evolving fuzzy controller is proposed for an autonomous
leader/follower. The self-evolving controller starts with a simple configuration and learns …

The advent of the Kinect depth imager has opened the door to motion capture applications
that would have been much more costly with previous technologies. In part, the Kinect …

This paper proposes a method of tracking an object for a person-following mobile robot by
combining a monocular camera and a laser scanner, where each sensor can supplement …

We have developed a mobile platform based on the principlesof modularity and rapid
development for studies robotics. Through behavior-based robot control and a unified …