Social robots may soon be able to play an important role in expanding communication with
the deaf. Based on the literature, adaptive user interfaces lead to greater user acceptance …

A novel approach to visual self-localization in completely unknown environment with a fully
unsupervised and computationally efficient algorithm is proposed in this paper. It is based …

This paper presents an investigation on the characteristics of Microsoft Kinect depth camera
for door detection in an indoor environment. Autonomous vehicles usually have to rely on …

Extending metric space representations of an environment with other high level information,
such as semantic and topological representations enable a robotic device to efficiently …

Emerging assistive technologies, such as assistive domotics and socially assistive robots
have considerable potential for enhancing the lives of many elderly and physically …

The capability of identifying physical structures in an unknown environment is important for
autonomous mobile robot navigation and scene understanding. A methodology for detecting …

One of the main advantages of fuzzy systems is their ability to design comprehensible
models of real-world systems, thanks to the use of a fuzzy rule structure easily interpretable …

Crossing a door is usually a necessary action for autonomous patrol of an indoor
surveillance robot. However, it is difficult for a large robot to cross narrow doors. In this …

As swarm of robots from different domains works together in a system of systems, the need
arises for inter-swarm communication. This paper presents a viable solution for robotic …

Human beings use doors to access rooms and corridors, to know where they are, to know
where they have to go, etc. Similarly, it would be quite useful for robots to be able to detect …