Socially assistive robots: a comprehensive approach to extending independent living

DO Johnson, RH Cuijpers, JF Juola, E Torta… - International journal of …, 2014 - Springer
Demographic developments have challenged our research on how to assist elderly people
by using robots. The KSERA (Knowledgeable SErvice Robots for Aging) project integrates …

Design of a parametric model of personal space for robotic social navigation

E Torta, RH Cuijpers, JF Juola - International Journal of Social Robotics, 2013 - Springer
The design of socially acceptable behaviours is becoming one major issue for the
development of robots that are able to interact with humans in unconstrained environments …

Legibility of robot approach trajectories with minimum jerk path planning

RH Cuijpers, PAM Ruijten, VJP Goor - … , CO, USA, November 14–18, 2020 …, 2020 - Springer
When a robot approaches a person, the chosen trajectory ideally informs the person not only
about the robot's intended target location, but also its intended orientation. However …

A neural field approach to obstacle avoidance

CK Tan, PG Plöger, TP Trappenberg - KI 2016: Advances in Artificial …, 2016 - Springer
Cognitive robotics aims at understanding biological processes, though it has also the
potential to improve future robotics systems. Here we show how a biologically inspired …

[PDF][PDF] Approaching independent living with robots

E Torta - 2014 - research.tue.nl
The past years have seen the first attempts to introduce robots in elderly people's homes in
the forms of animal–like robots, mobile remote presence robots or autonomous robots …