In the last years, considerable research has been carried out to develop robots that can
improve our quality of life during tedious and challenging tasks. In these contexts, robots …

Appropriate human likeness for social robots is said to increase trust and acceptance.
Whether this applies to human communication features like dialog initiative needs to be …

It is natural and efficient to use human natural language (NL) directly to instruct robot task
executions without prior user knowledge of instruction patterns. Currently, NL-instructed …

Demographic developments have challenged our research on how to assist elderly people
by using robots. The KSERA (Knowledgeable SErvice Robots for Aging) project integrates …

Following an introduction to AIMM, this paper investigates the missing links and gaps
between the research and developments efforts and the real‐world application …

We present a novel design framework enabling the development of social robotics
applications by cross-disciplinary teams of programmers and interaction designers. By …

In this work, we propose the first study of a technical validation of an assistive robotic
platform, which has been designed to assist people with neurodevelopmental disorders. The …

Summary Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) brings new challenges to robotics. We focus in this
paper on the decisional issues of HRI enabled robots. We propose a control architecture …

This paper describes a high-level task planner called HATP (for Human Aware Task
Planner). which is designed to synthesize plans for human robot teamwork while respecting …

Human Robot cooperation brings several challenges to autonomous robotics such as
adoption of a pro-active behavior, situation analysis and goal generation, intention …