Background Although there is a great deal of success in rehabilitative robotics applied to
patient recovery post stroke, most of the research to date has dealt with providing physical …

This article proposes the concept of basis behaviors as ubiquitous general building blocks
for synthesizing artificial group behavior in multiagent systems and for analyzing group …

Despite more than a decade of experimental work in multi-robot systems, important theoretical
aspects of multi-robot coordination mechanisms have, to date, been largely untreated. To …

This paper describes an incremental deployment algorithm for mobile sensor networks. A
mobile sensor network is a distributed collection of nodes, each of which has sensing, …

This paper discusses why traditional reinforcement learning methods, and algorithms applied
to those models, result in poor performance in situated domains characterized by multiple …

We present a socially assistive robot (SAR) system designed to engage elderly users in
physical exercise. We discuss the system approach, design methodology, and implementation …

This chapter reviews the critical societal issues that have motivated research into socially
assistive robotics ( SAR socially assistive robotics (SAR) ) (Sect. 73.2 ) and describes the …

Work in behavior-based systems focuses on functional modeling, that is, the synthesis of life-like
and/or biologically inspired behavior that is robust, repeatable and adaptive. Inspiration …

This paper describes how the use of behaviors as the underlying control representation
provides a useful encoding that both lends robustness to control and allows abstraction for …

A broadly accessible introduction to robotics that spans the most basic concepts and the
most novel applications; for students, teachers, and hobbyists. The Robotics Primer offers a …