Autonomous robots facing a diversity of open environments and performing a variety of tasks
and interactions need explicit deliberation in order to fulfill their missions. Deliberation is …

In human-robot collaborative assembly, robots are often required to dynamically change
their pre-planned tasks to collaborate with human operators in a shared workspace …

Abstract The Robot Operating System (ROS) is a set of software libraries and tools used to
build robotic systems. ROS is known for a distributed and modular design. Given a model of …

Develo** autonomous systems that operate successfully in dynamic environments entails
many challenges. Researchers introduce the concept of adjustable autonomy to mitigate …

This paper describes the open-source software toolchain developed by the Underwater
Systems and Technology Laboratory (LSTS) for supporting networked heterogeneous air …

Humans use signs, eg, sentences in a spoken language, for communication and thought.
Hence, symbol systems like language are crucial for our communication with other agents …

Robotic sampling is attractive in many field robotics applications that require persistent
collection of physical samples for ex-situ analysis. Examples abound in the earth sciences in …

Efficient sampling of coastal ocean processes, especially mechanisms such as upwelling
and internal waves and their influence on primary production, is critical for understanding …

Underwater installations require regular inspection and maintenance. We are exploring the
idea of performing these tasks using an autonomous underwater vehicle, achieving …

This paper presents a novel planning framework, called PLATINUm that advances the state
of the art with the ability of dealing with temporal uncertainty both at planning and plan …