In this paper, an overview of human–robot interactive communication is presented, covering
verbal as well as non-verbal aspects. Following a historical introduction, and motivation …

This chapter surveys some of the principal research trends in Social Robotics and its
application to human–robot interaction (HRI). Social (or Sociable) robots are designed to …

The role of robots in society keeps expanding and diversifying, bringing with it a host of
issues surrounding the relationship between robots and humans. This introduction to human …

The division of floor plans or navigation maps into single rooms or similarly meaningful
semantic units is central to numerous tasks in robotics such as topological mapping …

The past decade has seen the growing popularity of Bag of Features (BoF) approaches to
many computer vision tasks, including image classification, video search, robot localization …

Human–Robot Interaction in Social Robotics explores important issues in designing a robot
system that works with people in everyday environments. Edited by leading figures in the …

Vision systems are used more and more in'personal'robots interacting with humans, since
semantic information about objects and places can be derived from the rich sensory …

Robots designed for social interaction are predicted to be employed in a wide range of
environments including homes, schools, and workplaces (Bartneck & Forlizzi, 2004; Fong …

This paper reports about a human-robot interaction field trial conducted with the
autonomous mobile robot ACE (Autonomous City Explorer) in a public place, where the ACE …

Truly universal helper robots capable of coping with unknown, unstructured environments
must be capable of spatial reasoning, ie establishing geometric relations between objects …