This paper presents a brief review of affordance research in robotics, with special
concentrations on its applications in gras** and manipulation of objects. The concept of …

This paper describes the Flexible Navigation system that extends the ROS Navigation stack
and compatible libraries to separate computation from decision making, and integrates the …

We rely on our sight when manipulating objects. When objects are occluded, manipulation
becomes difficult. Such occluded objects can be shown via augmented reality to re-enable …

Team ViGIR and Team Hector participated in the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) Finals,
held June 2015 in Pomona, California, along with 21 other teams from around the world …

We propose a formalism for the hierarchical representation of affordances. Starting with a
perceived model of the environment consisting of geometric primitives like planes or …

In this work we present the concept of a pilot interface to control a humanoid robot on an
abstract level in unknown environments. The environment is perceived with a stereo camera …

While recent advances in approaches for control of humanoid robot systems show promising
results, consideration of fully integrated humanoid systems for solving complex tasks, such …

Humanoid robots are created to facilitate many facets of daily life, both in scenarios when
humans and robots collaborate and when robot completely replaces human. One of such …

The performance and flexibility of the latest robotic technologies make it possible to bring
more and more robots into everyday life. However, this also creates a number of challenges …

Motions of a robot interacting with its environment can be described by a set of constraints.
This paper introduces an approach, called motion template, which can quickly program and …