Human-Aware Autonomous Navigation of a Care Robot in Domestic Environments

A major societal challenge in occidental countries nowadays is the continuously increasing ageing population. Due to this ageing society, solutions are needed to alleviate the limited care personnel and the ever increasing healthcare costs. To this end, service robots are proposed to meet this demand by assisting the elderly with their daily...

Learning Autonomous Grasping Strategies for a Care Robot: A Machine Learning approach

Autonomous grasping is a key requisite for the autonomy of robots.<br/>However, grasping of unknown objects in domestic environments is difficult due to the presence of unpredictability and clutter.<br/>In this paper, a novel algorithm capable of finding an unobstructed grasping pose on unknown regular object shapes in cluttered environments is...