Implementation of a human‐aware robot navigation module for cooperative soft‐fruit harvesting operations

L Guevara, M Hanheide, S Parsons - Journal of Field Robotics, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In the last decades, robotic solutions have been introduced in agriculture to improve the
efficiency of tasks such as spraying, plowing, and seeding. However, for a more complex …

Towards long-term autonomy: A perspective from robot learning

Z Yan, L Sun, T Krajnik, T Duckett, N Bellotto - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
In the future, service robots are expected to be able to operate autonomously for long
periods of time without human intervention. Many work striving for this goal have been …

Personalization in Human-Robot Interaction through Preference-based Action Representation Learning

R Wang, D Zhao, D Suh, Z Yuan, G Chen… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Preference-based reinforcement learning (PbRL) has shown significant promise for
personalization in human-robot interaction (HRI) by explicitly integrating human preferences …

Human-like Social Learning for Social Robots: A Systematic Review

D Burkart, B Bruno - 2024 33rd IEEE International Conference …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Social learning is a learning paradigm aiming to make the process of teaching new skills to
an artificial intelligent agent (such as a robot) as close as possible to the process we employ …

Enhancing Museum Visitor Engagement: Personalized Learning with Adaptive Robot Tutor

J Magyar, M Szabóová, P Sinčák - 2024 IEEE 22nd World …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The present study describes the development and evaluation of an adaptive question
selection system for a robot deployed in a museum that aims to test visitors' familiarity with …

Maintaining, Monitoring, and Managing User Engagement in Social Robotics for Short-Term Interactions

A Lindsay, AA Ramirez-Duque, ME Foster… - ICAPS 2024 Workshop …, 2024 - openreview.net
Social robotics has already demonstrated benefits across several areas, including robot-
assisted education and healthcare. The use of plan-based approaches, which underpin the …

Co-creating museum robots with people that are autistic and/or have learning disabilities

H Cameron, M Story, G Reyes-Cruz… - Proceedings of the First …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The integration of robots into everyday life is an increasingly common and mundane
phenomena. Understanding how people regard and interact with these robots is a rapidly …

Lindsey the Tour Guide Robot: Adaptive Long-Term Autonomy in Social Environments

F Del Duchetto - 2023 - repository.lincoln.ac.uk
This project proposes a framework for online adaptation of robot behaviours deployed
autonomously in social settings with the goal of increasing the overall users' engagement …

LCASTOR 2024 Team Description Paper

H Arunachalam, F Del Duchetto, R Polvara, L Guevara… - repository.lincoln.ac.uk
LCASTOR is the team from the Lincoln Centre for Autonomous Systems (LCAS) at the
University of Lincoln, United Kingdom. It comprises academics, researchers and …

LCASTOR 2023 Team Description Paper

F Del Duchetto, R Polvara, L Guevara, M Story… - repository.lincoln.ac.uk
LCASTOR is a new team of the Lincoln Centre for Au tonomous Systems (LCAS) at the
University of Lincoln, United Kingdom. It comprises academics, researchers and …