In recent years, considerable amount of research has been dedicated to the integration of
artificial cognitive functionalities into informatics. With the immense growth in volume of …

Control theory deals with disciplines and methods leading to an automatic decision process
in order to improve the performance of a control system. The evolution of control engineering …

In this paper, VirCA (Virtual Collaboration Arena) is introduced as a Virtual Intelligent Space
that is organically connected to the RT-Middleware framework. The paper presents the …

The rehabilitation robotic systems FRIEND1-I (Martens et al., 2001) and its successor
FRIEND-II have been develo** at the Institute of Automation (IAT), University of Bremen …

Superflexible robot programming reduces the profitable batch sizes of industrial robots. The
paper presents a new way to determine the trajectory for welding robots based on the …

In human-human communication we use verbal, vocal and non-verbal signals to
communicate with others. Facial expressions are a form of non-verbal communication …

The paper presents new research directions both for 3D internet and cognitive info-
communication. It reviews basic concepts and definitions and gives some “historical” view …

Navigation in an unknown environment is a difficult task, because mobile robots need
topological maps in order to operate in the environment. Another fundamental problem is …

Navigation in an unknown environment is still a hard problem, because mobile robots need
topological maps in order to operate in the environment. Building a map of the environment …

The aim of this paper is to place the relation of human and robots on a new, ethologically
inspired base. So far, when designing robot interaction mainly ergonomic and psychological …