This survey provides the basis for developing research in the area of mobile manipulator
performance measurement, an area that has relatively few research articles when compared …

How good is a robot? Three challenges arise from this question: first, defining performance
from the robot's observable behavior; second, quantifying performance with an index that is …

In this paper, we describe RavenClaw, a plan-based, task-independent dialog management
framework. RavenClaw isolates the domain-specific aspects of the dialog control logic from …

Being part of the RoboCup initiative, the RoboCup@ Home league targets the development
and deployment of autonomous service and assistive robot technology being essential for …

We introduce Olympus, a freely available framework for research in conversational
interfaces. Olympus' open, transparent, flexible, modular and scalable nature facilitates the …

This paper discusses the implementation of the Search and Rescue Game Environment
(SARGE) using the Unity game engine. The paper will explain the key benefits of using Unity …

Abstract Urban Search and Rescue is a growing area of robotic research. The RoboCup
Federation has recognized this, and has created the new Virtual Robots competition to …

Understanding the behavioral dynamics that underline human-robot interactions in groups
remains one of the core challenges in social robotics research. However, despite a growing …

Abstract “Exploration and search” is a typical task for autonomous robots performing in
rescue missions, specifically addressing the problem of exploring the environment and at …

Crawler mobile robots have a large variety of applications, including urban search and
rescue. Before new algorithms and concepts could be integrated into a real robot control …