Autonomous robots combine a variety of skills to form increasingly complex behaviors called
missions. While the skills are often programmed at a relatively low level of abstraction, their …

Autonomous robots combine skills to form increasingly complex behaviors, called missions.
While skills are often programmed at a relatively low abstraction level, their coordination is …

Assistive robotic systems are quickly becoming a core technology for the service sector as
they are understood capable of supporting people in need of assistance in a wide variety of …

With many applications across domains as diverse as logistics, healthcare, and agriculture,
service robots are in increasingly high demand. Nevertheless, the designers of these robots …

Robot application development is gaining increasing attention both from the research and
industry communities. Robots are complex cyber-physical and safety-critical systems with …

Abstract Service robots are increasingly being used to perform missions comprising
dangerous or tedious tasks previously executed by humans. However, their users—who …

To facilitate continuous development of novel HRI systems, it is beneficial to have tools that
enable quick adjustments, flexibility, or re-invention of the human interfaces when system …

Efficiently coordinating different types of robots is an important enabler for many commercial
and industrial automation tasks. Here, we present a distributed framework that enables a …

We present a formal tasK AllocatioN and scheduling apprOAch for multi-robot missions
(KANOA). KANOA supports two important types of task constraints: task ordering, which …

Mobile robots are becoming increasingly important in society. Fulfilling complex missions in
different contexts and environments, robots are promising instruments to support our …