Joachim Hertzberg

Michael Beetz

Roman Englert

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 30th Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, KI 2007, held in Osnabrück, Germany, September 2007. The papers are organized in topical sections on cognition and emotion, semantic Web, analogy, natural language, reasoning, ontologies, spatio-temporal reasoning, machine learning, spatial reasoning, robot learning, classical AI problems, and agents.

30th Annual German Conference on AI, KI 2007, Osnabrück, Germany, September 10-13, 2007, Proceedings

KI 2007: Advances in Artificial Intelligence

Benjamin Johnston

Mary-Anne Williams

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2014, held in Sydney, NSW, Australia, in October 2014. The 41 revised full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. Amongst others, topics covered are such as interaction and collaboration among robots, humans, and environments; robots to assist the elderly and persons with disabilities; socially assistive robots to improve quality of life; affective and cognitive sciences for socially interactive robots; personal robots for the home; social acceptance and impact in the society; robot ethics in human society and legal implications; context awareness, expectation, and intention understanding; control architectures for social robotics; socially appealing design methodologies; safety in robots working in human spaces; human augmentation, rehabilitation, and medical robots; robot applications in education, entertainment, and gaming; knowledge representation and reasoning frameworks for robot social intelligence; cognitive architectures that support social intelligence for robots; robots in the workplace; human-robot interaction; creative and entertaining robots.

6th International Conference, ICSR 2014, Sydney, NSW, Australia, October 27-29, 2014. Proceedings

Social Robotics

In der sozialen Welt wimmelt es nur so von Phänomenen, die auf die eine oder andere Weise symbolischen Charakter tragen. Ihr symbolischer Gehalt wird dabei oft ganz intuitiv erfasst. Im Alltag wird in der Regel kein Zusammenhang hergestellt zwischen so unterschiedlichen Dingen wie Geburtstagssträußen und Grabmälern, Hundemarken und Eheringen, Burkas und Bikinis. Es werden die Gemeinsamkeiten schnell übersehen, die zwischen so verschiedenen Aktionsformen wie Sport und Krieg, Tanz und Sex, Menschenketten und politischen Wahlen bestehen. Mit der hier vorgelegten Publikation wird nun der Anspruch verfolgt, diese vielfältigen Formen des Symbolischen zu einem ebenso bunten wie scharfen Panoramabild zu gruppieren. Dies soll es nicht zuletzt auch einem breiteren Publikum gestatten, die Welt fortan mit dem Blick eines mikrosoziologisch geschulten Auges zu betrachten. Michael Beetz führt die Wirkungsweise von Status-, Gemeinschafts- und Sexsymbolen facettenreich vor. Er weist die ungebrochene Bedeutung nach, die symbolische Formen nicht nur für die Strukturierung von öffentlichen Räumen und von Weltbildern, sondern bereits für die Entwicklung von Grundhaltungen gegenüber der Welt haben. Als Form der kulturphilosophischen Animation und als soziologische Gedankenstütze stellt dieses Buch somit ein unvergleichlich geistreiches intellektuelles Unterhaltungsangebot dar.

Wie wir uns von der Gesellschaft leiten lassen und dabei die Wirklichkeit selbst mitgestalten

Kraft der Symbole

Bruno Siciliano

Luigi Villani

Ciro Natale

This book aims at sharing knowledge about the technological opportunities and the main research challenges regarding robotics for logistics in supermarkets and retail stores, from the perspectives of the end-users, logistic companies, technology providers, and robotic researchers. The authors have been involved into the H2020 project Robotics Enabling Fully Integrated Logistics Lines for Supermarkets (REFILLS), aimed at improving logistics in supermarkets thanks to mobile robotic systems in close and smart collaboration with humans. The readers will find a comprehensive analysis of the main logistic processes in retail stores with possible robotized solutions, involving mechanical design, perception, and control. These technologies have been validated in realistic environments, and some of them have been tested into real supermarkets. The book is intended for a broad academic and industrial readership, including operators in the field of logistics, distribution, and retail.

Robotics for Intralogistics in Supermarkets and Retail Stores

Martha E. Pollack

Malik Ghallab

Leonidas Guibas

Joachim Herztberg

In recent years, autonomous robots, including Xavier, Martha [1], Rhino [2,3], Minerva,and Remote Agent, have shown impressive performance in long-term demonstrations. In NASA’s Deep Space program, for example, an - tonomous spacecraft controller, called the Remote Agent [5], has autonomously performed a scienti?c experiment in space. At Carnegie Mellon University, Xavier [6], another autonomous mobile robot, navigated through an o?ce - vironment for more than a year, allowing people to issue navigation commands and monitor their execution via the Internet. In 1998, Minerva [7] acted for 13 days as a museum tourguide in the Smithsonian Museum, and led several thousand people through an exhibition. These autonomous robots have in common that they rely on plan-based c- trol in order to achieve better problem-solving competence. In the plan-based approach, robots generate control actions by maintaining and executing a plan that is e?ective and has a high expected utility with respect to the robots’ c- rent goals and beliefs. Plans are robot control programs that a robot can not only execute but also reason about and manipulate [4]. Thus, a plan-based c- troller is able to manage and adapt the robot’s intended course of action — the plan — while executing it and can thereby better achieve complex and changing tasks.

International Seminar, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, October 21-26, 2001, Revised Papers

Advances in Plan-Based Control of Robotic Agents

American Association for Artificial Intelligence

Papers from the AAAI Workshop (WS-11-11)

Human Computation

In this book, the author presents a new computational model of forestalling common flaws in autonomous robot behavior. To this end, robots are equipped with structured reactive plans (SRPs) which are concurrent control programs that can not only be interpreted but also be reasoned about and manipulated. The author develops a representation for SRPs in which declarative statements for goals, perceptions, and beliefs make the structure and purpose of SRPs explicit and thereby simplify and speed up reasoning about SRPs and their projections; furthermore a notation is introduced allowing for transforming and manipulating SRPs. Using this notation, a planning system can diagnose and forestall common flaws in robot plans that cannot be dealt with in other planning representations. Finally the language for writing SRPs is extended into a high-level language that can handle both planning and execution actions.

Anticipating and Forestalling Execution Failures

Concurrent Reactive Plans

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 30th Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, KI 2007, held in Osnabrück, Germany, September 10-13, 2007. The 26 revised full papers presented together with 6 invited contributions and 21 posters were carefully reviewed and selected from 81 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on cognition and emotion, semantic Web, analogy, natural language, reasoning, ontologies, spatio-temporal reasoning, machine learning, spatial reasoning, robot learning, classical AI problems, and agents.

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