Robotic assistants have inspired numerous books and science fiction movies. In the real world, these kinds of devices are a growing need in amongst the elderly, who while life continue requiring more assistance. While ...

Given that human-like robots are finding their place in different areas of our world, research is being carried out in order to improve human-robot interaction. Humanoid robots not only require a human appearance but also ...

[CATALÀ] En aquest Treball Final Grau s'implementa un comportament per a un robot de servei per fer que aquest sigui capaç de cercar i trobar objectes en una sala de la qual en coneix el mapa. La resolució del problema ...

The concept of household robotic servants has been in our mind for ages, and domestic appliances are far more robotised than they used to be. At present, manufacturers are starting to introduce small, household ...

Describimos un proyecto de investigación en el cual exploramos la efectividad de una estrategia de integración de planificación simbólica y geométrica en el área de la robótica. Nos proponemos resolver un problema equiparable ...

The increment of dependant people for the realization of Activities of Daily Living is a fact that comes implicit with the increase of population and their lifespan given by the modern technological progress. For this ...

In this Master Thesis, the supervision and control problem of service robots in unknown anthropic domains has been addressed from the Fault Detection and Diagnosis (FDD) framework, presenting a complete Fault-Tolerant ...

Manipulation planning is a field of study with increasing interest, it combines manipulation skills and an artificial intelligence system that is able to find the optimal sequence of actions in order to solve manipulation ...

Research about tasks that robotic maids should be able to perform is an emerging research area such as cooking and cleaning. Among them, manipulation of clothes is one of the hardest tasks due to the fact that textile is ...