Abstract Behavior Trees (BTs) were invented as a tool to enable modular AI in computer
games, but have received an increasing amount of attention in the robotics community in the …

The connected automated vehicle has been often touted as a technology that will become
pervasive in society in the near future. One can view an automated vehicle as having …

Behavior Trees are a promising approach to model the autonomous behaviour of robots in
dynamic environments. Behavior Trees represent action selection decisions as a tree of …

In this paper, we present an experiment, designed to investigate and evaluate the scalability
and the robustness aspects of mobile manipulation. The experiment involves performing …

This paper presents a software architecture to implement a task-motion planning system that
can improve human-robot interactions by including social behavior when social robots …

This paper presents a software architecture for robots providing manipulation services
autonomously in human environments. In an unstructured human environment, a service …

Pervasive applications are revolutionizing the perception that users have towards the
environment. Indeed, pervasive applications perform resource-intensive computations over …

Although the mobile manipulation capability is crucial for a service robot to perform physical
work without human support, the long-term autonomous operation of such a mobile …

Performing versatile mobile manipulation actions in human-centered environments requires
highly sophisticated software frameworks that are flexible enough to handle special use …

In the not too distant future, assistive humanoid robots will provide versatile assistance for
coping with everyday life. In their interactions with humans, not only safety, but also security …