Industry 4.0 is pushing forward the need for symbiotic interactions between physical and
virtual entities of production environments to realize increasingly flexible and customizable …

One of the main challenges of social robots concerns the ability to guarantee robust,
contextualized and intelligent behavior capable of supporting continuous and personalized …

Abstract Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) are facilitating the deployment of
intelligent systems in manufacturing. In Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC), industrial robots …

Given the model of a system with explicit temporal constraints, optimal temporal planning is
the problem of finding a schedule of actions that achieves a certain goal while optimizing an …

A key aspect of robotic assistants is their ability to contextualize their behavior according to
different needs of assistive scenarios. This work presents an ontology-based knowledge …

This paper presents a novel comprehensive framework called ROS-TiPlEx (Timeline-based
Planning and Execution with ROS) to provide a shared environment in which experts in …

A new framework is proposed to analyze the brittleness of task networks with respect to an
arbitrary set of user-specified properties, such as dynamic controllability or minimum battery …

To achieve practical execution, planners must produce temporal plans with some degree of
run-time adaptability. Such plans can be expressed as Simple Temporal Networks (STN) …

In order to ensure the robust actuation of a plan, execution must be adaptable to unexpected
situations in the world and to exogenous events. This is critical in domains in which …

The deployment of autonomous robots capable to both socially interact and proactively offer
support to human users in a common life scenario remains challenging despite the recent …