Recent technological advances enabled modern robots to become part of our daily life. In
particular, assistive robotics emerged as an exciting research topic that can provide …

Having accurate knowledge of the positions of people around a robot provides rich,
objective and quantitative data that can be highly useful for a wide range of tasks, including …

Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology is now becoming the main tool in many
applications such as autonomous driving and human–robot collaboration. Point-cloud …

Acquiring the accurate three-dimensional (3-D) position of a target person around a robot
provides valuable information that is applicable to a wide range of robotic tasks, especially …

Registration, identification, and re-creation of an indoor occupant's actions are challenges in
the field of building energy performance. Commonly used measurement technologies are …

Falling is a common problem in the growing elderly population, and fall-risk assessment
systems are needed for community-based fall prevention programs. In particular, the timed …

A methodology for acquisition and preprocessing of measurement data from infrared depth
sensors, when applied for fall detection, combined with several approaches to the …

Human detection and tracking is an essential component in several robotics applications,
especially in indoor built environments where humans and robots are expected to coexist or …

People detection and tracking is an essential capability for mobile robots in order to achieve
natural human–robot interaction. In this article, a human detection and tracking system is …

In this paper, a robust, real-time object tracking approach capable of dealing with multiple
symmetric and non-symmetric objects in a real-time requirement setting is proposed. The …