Intelligent robot companions contribute significantly in improving living standards in the
modern society. Therefore, human-like decision making skills are sought after during the …

Pedestrians will increasingly have to share their space with autonomous vehicles (AVs), at
pedestrian crossings, and in urban shared spaces where segregation between pedestrians …

As service robots are envisioned to provide decision-making support (DMS) in public places,
it is becoming essential to design the robot's manner of offering assistance. For example …

Terrain analysis is of paramount importance for the safe navigation of autonomous robots. In
this study, we introduce GATA, a probabilistic real-time graph-based method for …

Social robots should be able to search and track people in order to help them. In this paper
we present two different techniques for coordinated multi-robot teams for searching and …

Robots must develop the ability to socially navigate in uncontrolled urban environments to
be able to be included in our daily lives. This paper presents a new robot navigation …

During the past 15 years, an increasing amount of works have investigated proactive robotic
behavior in relation to Human–Robot Interaction (HRI). The works engage with a variety of …

This study describes and evaluates two new methods for finding and following people in
urban settings using a humanoid service robot: the Continuous Real-time POMCP method …

Creativity, in one sense, can be seen as an effort or action to bring novelty. Following this,
we explore how a robot can be creative by bringing novelty in a human–robot interaction …

The rise of robots and robotics has proved to be a benefaction to humankind in different
aspects. Robotics evolved from a simple button, has seen massive development over the …