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This paper presents an innovative exploration into the integration of interactive robotic musicianship within a commercial retail environment, specifically through a three-week-long in-store installation featuring a UR3 robotic arm,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Richard Savery , Fouad Sukkar

Variable autonomy equips a system, such as a robot, with mixed initiatives such that it can adjust its independence level based on the task's complexity and the surrounding environment. Variable autonomy solves two main problems in robotic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Georgios Bakirtzis , Manolis Chiou , Andreas Theodorou

Autonomous robotic systems are complex, hybrid, and often safety-critical; this makes their formal specification and verification uniquely challenging. Though commonly used, testing and simulation alone are insufficient to ensure the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Matt Luckcuck , Marie Farrell , Louise Dennis , Clare Dixon , Michael Fisher

Inventory management problems with periodic and controllable resets occur in the context of managing water storage in the developing world and retailing limited-time availability products. In this paper, we consider a set of sequential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-09 Yoon Lee , Yonatan Mintz , Anil Aswani , Zuo-Jun Max Shen , Cong Yang

The problem of self-tuning control of cooperative manipulators forming a closed kinematic chain in the presence of an inaccurate kinematics model is addressed using adaptive machine learning. The kinematic parameters pertaining to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Farhad Aghili

This article addresses the localization problem in robotic autonomous luggage trolley collection at airports and provides a systematic evaluation of different methods to solve it. The robotic autonomous luggage trolley collection is a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Zhirui Sun , Weinan Chen , Jiankun Wang , Max Q. -H. Meng

Agile control of mobile manipulator is challenging because of the high complexity coupled by the robotic system and the unstructured working environment. Tracking and grasping a dynamic object with a random trajectory is even harder. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Cong Wang , Qifeng Zhang , Qiyan Tian , Shuo Li , Xiaohui Wang , David Lane , Yvan Petillot , Ziyang Hong , Sen Wang

There are few industries which use manually controlled robots for carrying material and this cannot be used all the time in all the places. So, it is very tranquil to have robots which can follow a specific human by following the unique…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Sai Nikhil Gona , Prithvi Raj Bandhakavi

Reinforcement learning (RL) has shown promise in solving various combinatorial optimization problems. However, conventional RL faces challenges when dealing with complex, real-world constraints, especially when action space feasibility is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Jaike van Twiller , Yossiri Adulyasak , Erick Delage , Djordje Grbic , Rune Møller Jensen

The problem of searching for an unknown object occurs in important applications ranging from security, medicine and defense. Sensors with the capability to process information rapidly require adaptive algorithms to control their search in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-18 Huanyu Ding , David A. Castañón

The realm of AIOps is transforming IT landscapes with the power of AI and ML. Despite the challenge of limited labeled data, supervised models show promise, emphasizing the importance of leveraging labels for training, especially in deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Thorsten Wittkopp , Alexander Acker , Odej Kao

This paper considers deployment problems where a mobile robotic network must optimize its configuration in a distributed way in order to minimize a steady-state cost function that depends on the spatial distribution of certain probabilistic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-08-20 Jerome Le Ny , George J. Pappas

This paper considers the problem of robot motion planning in a workspace with obstacles for systems with uncertain 2nd-order dynamics. In particular, we combine closed form potential-based feedback controllers with adaptive control…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Christos K. Verginis , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

Autonomous Vehicles are currently being tested in a variety of scenarios. As we move towards Autonomous Vehicles, how should intersections look? To answer that question, we break down an intersection management into the different conundrums…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-10 Shravan Krishnan , Govind Aadithya R , Rahul Ramakrishnan , Vijay Arvindh , Sivanathan K

Solving complex optimal control problems have confronted computational challenges for a long time. Recent advances in machine learning have provided us with new opportunities to address these challenges. This paper takes model predictive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-21 Weinan E , Jiequn Han , Jihao Long

Soft robots manufactured with flexible materials can be highly compliant and adaptive to their surroundings, which facilitates their application in areas such as dexterous manipulation and environmental exploration. This paper aims at…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Renjie Ma , Ziyao Qu , Zhijian Hu , Dong Zhao , Marios M. Polycarpou

Cloud robotics is a field of robotics that attempts to invoke Cloud technologies such as Cloud computing, Cloud storage, and other Internet technologies centered around the benefits of converged infrastructure and shared services for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-01-16 Lei Zhang , Huaxi , Zhang , Zheng Fang , Xianbo Xiang , Marianne Huchard , Rene Zapata

Testing and code reviews are known techniques to improve the quality and robustness of software. Unfortunately, the complexity of modern software systems makes it impossible to anticipate all possible problems that can occur at runtime,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Moeen Ali Naqvi , Merve Astekin , Sehrish Malik , Leon Moonen

Scalable real-time assortment optimization has become essential in e-commerce operations due to the need for personalization and the availability of a large variety of items. While this can be done when there are simplistic assortment…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Theja Tulabandhula , Deeksha Sinha , Saketh Karra

Object-centric event logs, allowing events related to different objects of different object types, represent naturally the execution of business processes, such as ERP (O2C and P2P) and CRM. However, modeling such complex information…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Alessandro Berti , Urszula Jessen , Wil M. P. van der Aalst , Dirk Fahland