In this paper, we present a new method based on the Aerial Social Force Model (ASFM) to allow human-drone side-by-side social navigation in real environments. To tackle this problem, the present work proposes a new ...

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in enabling autonomous social robots to interact with people. However, many questions remain unresolved regarding the social capabilities robots should have in order to ...

Focussed on application-oriented research and development, ECHORD++ (E++) is being funded by the European Comission in the 7PM for five years to improve and increase the innovation in robotic technology. Activities include ...

The use of autonomous technologies for last-mile logistics has the potential to reduce operation costs, cut emissions from the delivery sector, improve safety levels in communities, and provide efficient delivery solutions ...

Se presenta un nuevo método para localizar a personas en entornos urbanos usando robots móviles sociales que trabajan de manera cooperativa, el cual supera las limitaciones de enfoques ya existentes, que se adaptan a ...

In this article, scale and orientation invariant object detection is performed by matching intensity level histograms. Unlike other global measurement methods, the present one uses a local feature description that allows ...

Presentation of the progress of the European's project URUS: Ubiquitous Networking Robotics for Urban Settings

This paper shows results on outdoor vision-based loop closing for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping. Our experiments show that for loops of over 50m, the pose estimates maintained with a Delayed-State Extended Information ...

The development of systems that allow multimodal interpretation of human-machine interaction is crucial to advance our understanding and validation of theoretical models of user behavior. In particular, a system capable ...