A5062992824- Social Robot Interaction and HRI
- Robotics and Automated Systems
- Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems
- Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation
- Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence
- Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services
- Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies
- IoT and Edge/Fog Computing
- Reinforcement Learning in Robotics
- Robotic Path Planning Algorithms
- Energy Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks
- Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems
- Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing
- AI in Service Interactions
- Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems
- Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies
- Human Motion and Animation
- Robot Manipulation and Learning
- Mobile Agent-Based Network Management
- Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing
- Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
- Underwater Acoustics Research
- Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks
- Speech and dialogue systems
- Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
Heriot-Watt University
2016-2024
Sensors (United States)
2020
University of Stirling
2020
Trinity College Dublin
2015-2016
University College Dublin
2005-2014
Clarity Centre for Sensor Web Technologies
2009-2013
The Internet of Robotic Things is an emerging vision that brings together pervasive sensors and objects with robotic autonomous systems. This survey examines how the merger technologies will advance abilities both current systems, thus enabling creation new, potentially disruptive services. We discuss some new technological challenges created by this conclude a truly holistic view needed but currently lacking.
Worldwide demographic projections point to a progressively older population. This fact has fostered research on Ambient Assisted Living, which includes developments smart homes and social robots. To endow such environments with truly autonomous behaviours, algorithms must extract semantically meaningful information from whichever sensor data is available. Human activity recognition one of the most active fields within this context. Proposed approaches vary according input modality...
Abstract Enabling robots to seamlessly operate as part of smart spaces is an important and extended challenge for robotics R&D a key enabler range advanced robotic applications, such AmbientAssisted Living (AAL) home automation. The integration these technologies currently being pursued from two largely distinct view-points: On the one hand, people-centred initiatives focus on improving user’s acceptance by tackling human-robot interaction (HRI) issues, often adopting social approach,...
In this paper, we present the results of deploying first test prototype USMART low cost underwater sensor network in sea trials Fort William, United Kingdom, on 29 June 2018 and 3 July 2018. We demonstrate ever hardware implementation Transmit Delay Allocation MAC (TDA-MAC) protocol for data gathering acoustic networks (UASNs). The show a successful application TDA-MAC to remote environmental monitoring, integrating range nodes developed by universities Heriot-Watt, York, Newcastle...
Endowing robots with a social interface is often costly and difficult. Virtual characters on the other hand are comparatively cheap well equipped but suffer from difficulties, most notably their inability to interact physical world. This paper details our wearable solution combining virtual into mixed reality agent (MiRA) through visualisation. It describes pilot study demonstrating system, showing how such technique can offer viable alternative cost effective approach enabling rich for...
Addressing the obesity epidemic that plagues many societies remains an outstanding public health issue. One innovative approach to addressing this problem is Exergaming. A combination of "Exercise" and "Gaming", objective motivate people participate in exercise regimes, usually their home environment. In paper a more holistic interpretation paradigm proposed. Freegaming augments Exergaming number key dimensions but especially through promotion games outdoor mobile contexts within social The...
Service robots employed in public spaces need to be equipped with specific sensing, reasoning and human-robot interaction capabilities adapt their style thus effectively engage a variety of users. In this paper we present method used by an ubiquitous robotic system gather 3D body metrics use them robustly estimate age gender previously unseen participants real-world multi-party situations. We evaluate system's performance on 428 children volunteers compare those obtainable state the art...
Modern computing systems require powerful software frameworks to ease their development and manage complexity. These issues are addressed within both Component-Based Software Engineering Agent-Oriented Engineering, although few integrated solutions exist. This paper discusses a novel integration strategy, which builds upon paradigms address shortcomings while leveraging different characteristics define complete framework.
In order to inform the design of robotic applications for children, in this paper we describe and report results an experiment conducted a primary school. Our work investigates effects robot's perceived gender age on levels engagement acceptance robot by children across different groups. show that ages relate differently toward gender.
Biologically inspired strategies have long been adapted to swarm robotic systems, including biased random walks, reaction chemotactic cues and long-range coordination. In this paper we apply analysis tools developed for modeling biological such as continuum descriptions, the efficient quantitative characterization of robot swarms. As an illustration, both Brownian L\'{e}vy with a characteristic movement are discussed. result obtain computationally fast methods optimization laws achieve...
This paper contests that Mixed Reality (MR) offers a potential solution in achieving transferability between Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and Robot (HRI). Virtual characters (possibly of robotic genre) can offer highly expressive interfaces are as convincing human, comparably cheap be easily adapted personalized. We introduce the notion mixed reality agent, i.e. an agent consisting physical body virtual avatar displayed upon it. realized augmented interface with Head-Mounted Display...
Ubiquitous robots are integrated with smart environments, where they cooperate networks of heterogeneous sensors to achieve complex tasks. Their successful application opens important research questions for both their engineering and interaction human users, especially in pub lic space scenarios, when need interact a socially acceptable manner multiple previously unknown people. This article presents testbed, named PRIveT, which is purposefully designed support effective human-robot (HRI)...
With the recent development of field social robotics and in particular need to negotiate explicit interaction behaviour between both socially capable robots humans, this work presents a framework which supports coherent real artificial systems. The robot architecture is implemented conjunction with virtual robotic workbench, cohesive integrates physical robots, avatars humans shared space.
Networked robotic applications enable robots to operate in distant, hazardous, or otherwise inaccessible environments, such as search and rescue, surveillance, exploration applications.