The modelling of use cases in Social Robotics and its formalisation in a control architecture
is a complex and time consuming task, which can be seen as a knowledge engineering …

English We propose to use automatic scheduling in the presence of uncertainty
methodology to analyze the emotional state of a person and possible responses of a social …

The use of Planning, Execution and Monitoring architectures to control robotic platforms is
becoming very popular. In most cases these architectures provide knowledge at two different …

In many highly dynamic environments artificial agents need to follow long-term goals and
therefore are required to reason and to plan far into the future. At the same time, while …

In this thesis, using Markov decision models, we investigate high-level decision-making
(task-level planning) for robotics in two aspects: robot-robot collaboration and human-robot …