The anthropomorphization of human-robot interactions is a fundamental aspect of the
design of social robotics applications. This article describes how an interaction model based …

In robotics, perception is usually oriented at understanding what is happening in the external
world, while few works pay attention to what is occurring in the robot's body. In this work, we …

Nowadays there is a growing interest in the design and implementation of robots capable of
exhibiting sophisticated behaviours, taking part in social interactions, expressing and …

The primary aim of this paper is to give to a humanoid robot the sense of pain. That because
the pain is one of the ways to which we protect our body. Thus, we consider that a humanoid …

The Mobile Robot Self-Localization is always a crucial aspect of the autonomous navigation
task. The challenge of self-locating become complicated when the robot has sensors having …

The paper proposes an artificial somatosensory system loosely inspired by human beings'
biology and embedded in a cognitive architecture (CA). It enables a robot to receive the …

The capability of a robot being aware of its internal status is a step forward to the
enhancement of human–robot interaction. The possibility of feeling either pleasant or …

In this paper we illustrate the architecture of an intelligent advisor agent aimed at limiting, or
as far as possible preventing, the damages caused by catastrophic events, such as floods …

The challenge faced in this work is to design and implement an artificial so-matosensory
system for a humanoid robot, able to produce somatic sensations and emotions starting from …

This paper shows the application of a soft sensor network for the detection of meteorological
events. A set of hard (real) sensor are placed in a territory, where they measure …