In this paper we present the evaluation results of an exploratory study performed in an open environment with the robot receptionist Olivia. The main focus of the study was to analyze relationships between the robot's social skills and the perceived overall interaction quality, as well as to...

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Key Terms and Definitions; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Chapter 1: Introduction and Background; 1.1 Overview; 1.2 Reliability Engineering; 1.3 Complex Systems; Chapter 2: Fault Tree Analysis and Reliability Block Diagram;...

This paper presents an efficient approach for a vision based localization of multiple mobile robots in an indoor environment by using a low cost vision sensor. The proposed vision sensor system that uses a single camera mounted over the mobile robots field takes advantages of small size, low...

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