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Understanding infant development is one of the greatest scientific challenges of contemporary science. A large source of difficulty comes from the fact that the development of skills in infants results from the interactions of multiple…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-01-21 Pierre-Yves Oudeyer

For a robot to be perfect and enter the everyday life of humans,like computers did, it needs to move from special-purpose robots to general-purpose. So, the idea of modularity is considered in this project.Thus, any type of task that falls…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Aymen Rachdi , Fedi Zrelli , Amine Kammmoun

Embodied robots which can interact with their environment and neighbours are increasingly being used as a test case to develop Artificial Intelligence. This creates a need for multimodal robot controllers that can operate across different…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-05 William Hunt , Sarvapali D. Ramchurn , Mohammad D. Soorati

Industrial automation systems (IAS) need to be highly dependable; they should not merely function as expected but also do so in a reliable, safe, and secure manner. Formal methods are mathematical techniques that can greatly aid in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Roopak Sinha , Sandeep Patil , Luis Gomes , Valeriy Vyatkin

Industrial human-robot collaborative systems must be validated thoroughly with regard to safety. The sooner potential hazards for workers can be exposed, the less costly is the implementation of necessary changes. Due to the complexity of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Tom P. Huck , Christoph Ledermann , Torsten Kröger

The transformation towards intelligence in various industries is creating more demand for intelligent and flexible products. In the field of robotics, learning-based methods are increasingly being applied, with the purpose of training…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Xinjie Liu

The concept of random dynamical system is a comparatively recent development combining ideas and methods from the well developed areas of probability theory and dynamical systems. Due to our inaccurate knowledge of the particular physical…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vitor Araujo

The safety of mobile robots in dynamic environments is predicated on making sure that they do not collide with obstacles. In support of such safety arguments, we analyze and formally verify a series of increasingly powerful safety…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Stefan Mitsch , Khalil Ghorbal , David Vogelbacher , André Platzer

As of today, robots exhibit impressive agility but also pose potential hazards to humans using/collaborating with them. Consequently, safety is considered the most paramount factor in human-robot interaction (HRI). This paper presents a…

Recent advances in large-scale machine learning have produced high-capacity foundation models capable of adapting to a broad array of downstream tasks. While such models hold great promise for robotics, the prevailing paradigm still…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Sharmita Dey

Robotics simulation plays an important role in the design, development, and verification and validation of robotic systems. Recent studies have shown that simulation may be used as a cheaper, safer, and more reliable alternative to manual,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Afsoon Afzal , Deborah S. Katz , Claire Le Goues , Christopher S. Timperley

Understanding fault types can lead to novel approaches to debugging and runtime verification. Dealing with complex faults, particularly in the challenging area of embedded systems, craves for more powerful tools, which are now becoming…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Alexander Weiss , Smitha Gautham , Athira Varma Jayakumar , Carl Elks , D. Richard Kuhn , Raghu N. Kacker , Thomas B. Preusser

Robotics research has long sought to give robots the ability to perceive the physical world through touch in an analogous manner to many biological systems. Developing such tactile capabilities is important for numerous emerging…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Shan Luo , Nathan F. Lepora , Wenzhen Yuan , Kaspar Althoefer , Gordon Cheng , Ravinder Dahiya

Contemporary robots have become exceptionally skilled at achieving specific tasks in structured environments. However, they often fail when faced with the limitless permutations of real-world unstructured environments. This motivates…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Weiming Zhi

Creating autonomous, self-supporting, self-replicating, sustainable systems is a great challenge. To some extent, understanding life means not only being able to create it from scratch, but also improving, supporting, saving it, or even…

Robotics · Computer Science 2011-11-07 Serge Kernbach

Soft robotic systems present a variety of new opportunities for solving complex problems. The use of soft robotic grippers, for example, can simplify the complexity in tasks such as the of grasping irregular and delicate objects. Adoption…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-02-03 Ross M. McKenzie , Thomas W. Barraclough , Adam A. Stokes

Robotics simulation has been an integral part of research and development in the robotics area. The simulation eliminates the possibility of harm to sensors, motors, and the physical structure of a real robot by enabling robotics…

The ongoing progress in networking security, together with the growing range of robot applications in many fields of everyday life, makes robotics tangible reality in our near future. Accordingly, new advanced services, depends on the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-05-29 Vibekananda Dutta , Teresa Zielinska

Purpose: Industrial robots allow manufacturing companies to increase productivity and remain competitive. For robots to be used, they must be accepted by operators on the one hand and bought by decision-makers on the other. The roles…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Damian Hostettler

Autonomous systems will play an essential role in many applications across diverse domains including space, marine, air, field, road, and service robotics. They will assist us in our daily routines and perform dangerous, dirty and dull…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Lars Kunze , Nick Hawes , Tom Duckett , Marc Hanheide , Tomáš Krajník