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Castañeda, Theophil Spiegeler (author), Horstman, Bart (author), Capsi-Morales, Patricia (author), Della Santina, C. (author), Piazza, Cristina (author)Adopting compliant structures holds the potential to enhance the robustness and interaction capabilities of the next generation of bionic limbs. Although researchers have proficiently explored this approach in the design of artificial hands, they devoted little attention to the development of more proximal joints. This work presents a...conference paper 2024
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Bier, H.H. (author), Hidding, A.J. (author), Khademi, S. (author), van Engelenburg, C.C.J. (author), Prendergast, J.M. (author), Peternel, L. (author)Real-world applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in architecture have been explored more recently at Technical University (TU) Delft by integrating AI in Design-to-Robotic-Production-Assembly and -Operation (D2RPA&O) methods. These embed robotics into building processes and buildings by linking computational design with robotic...conference paper 2024
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Zaga, Cristina (author), Lupetti, M.L. (author), Forster, D. (author), Murray-Rust, D.S. (author), Prendergast, J.M. (author), Abbink, D.A. (author)In Industry 5.0, cognitive robots and workers will engage in evolving and reciprocal relations, which we call worker-robot relationships (WRRs). To enable evidence-based work futures with workers, we must co-develop WRRs and understand their impact on work, workers, management, and society. To this end, we posit that the HRI field should work...conference paper 2024
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Murray-Rust, D.S. (author), Gorbet, Matt (author), Filthaut, L. (author), Lupetti, M.L. (author), van der Helm, A.J.C. (author), Chiu, Adrian (author), Ianniello, A. (author), Beesley, Philip (author)This work illustrates how artistic robotic systems can provide a reservoir of unfamiliarity and a basis for speculation, to open the field toward new ways of thinking about HRI. We reflect on a collaborative project between design students, a media art studio, and design researchers working with the baggage handling department of the Schiphol...conference paper 2024
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Cila, N. (author), Gonzalez Gonzalez, I. (author), Jacobs, Jan (author), Rozendaal, M.C. (author)Using HRI theory to inform robot development is an important, but difficult, endeavor. This paper explores the relationship between HRI theory and HRI practice through a design project on the development of design guidelines for human-robot communication together with a dairy farming robot manufacturer. The design guidelines, a type of...conference paper 2024
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Design of Child-robot Interactions for Comfort and Distraction from Post-operative Pain and DistressFerrari, Oriana Isabella (author), Zhang, Feiran (author), Braam, Ayrton A. (author), Van Gurp, Jules A.M. (author), Broz, F. (author), Barakova, Emilia I. (author)There are numerous strategies for reducing the stress and anxiety associated with pain that children experience before and after surgery. There is a potential communication barrier between hospital staff and the child which may result in inadequate pain management. Social robots may reduce the gap between the support that personnel can...conference paper 2023
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Li, Y. (author), Broz, F. (author), Neerincx, M.A. (author)Assistive robots are expected to contribute to the solution of major societal problems in healthcare, such as the increasing number of elderly who need informal and professional care over a long period of time. Most of the research focuses on the development of humanlike robots to facilitate human-robot interaction and strengthen the social,...conference paper 2023
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Saunders-Smits, Gillian (author), Bossen, R.H. (author), de Winter, J.C.F. (author)The increasing global demand for robotics expertise led the Delft University of Technology to launch a two-year Master of Science programme in Robotics in 2020. The programme was designed to educate versatile robotics engineers capable of overseeing the entire process from conception of robotics systems to implementation. The curriculum...conference paper 2023
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Jovanova, J. (author), Var, S.C.S. (author)Underwater robot tasks pose many challenges for conventional robotic systems. The current rigid robots are limited in their adaptability to the environment and the objects to be manipulated. Soft grasping of objects offers advantages due to the flexibility when dealing with, for example, living organisms, random shaped objects, and coral...conference paper 2023
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van der Niet, A.M. (author), Claij, C.C. (author), Saunders-Smits, Gillian (author)In 2020, a new two-year MSc programme in robotics was launched. Unlike most existing robotics programmes, which approach robotics from a specific discipline, this programme aims to train multi-deployable robot generalists using a cognitive approach (no hardware creation). The field of robotics is multidisciplinary by nature and educating...conference paper 2023
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Zhang, Feiran (author), Broz, F. (author), Ferrari, Oriana (author), Barakova, Emilia (author)There is a growing interest in implementing robotics applications for children in healthcare to provide companionship, comfort, education, and therapy. Parental expectations regarding robotics for young children play a critical role in influencing its development and acceptance. However, parental expectations are widely overlooked in HRI....conference paper 2023
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Sharma, Suryansh (author), Simha, A. (author), Venkatesha Prasad, Ranga Rao (author), Deshmukh, Shubham (author), Saravanan, Kavin Balaji (author), Ramesh, Ravi (author), Mottola, Luca (author)UAVs are becoming versatile and valuable platforms for various applications. However, the main limitation is their flying time. We present BEAVIS, a novel aerial robotic platform striking an unparalleled trade-off between the maneuverability of drones and the long-lasting capacity of blimps. BEAVIS scores highly in applications where drones...conference paper 2023
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Rezende Silva, G. (author), Pasler, Juliane (author), Zwanepol, Jeroen (author), Alberts, E.G. (author), Lizeth Tapia Tarifa, S. (author), Gerostathopoulos, Ilias (author), Johnsen, Einar Broch (author), Hernández, Carlos (author)Once deployed in the real world, autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are out of reach for human supervision yet need to take decisions to adapt to unstable and unpredictable environments. To facilitate research on self-adaptive AUVs, this paper presents SUAVE, an exemplar for two-layered system-level adaptation of AUVs, which clearly...conference paper 2023
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Liberman-Pincu, Ela (author), van Grondelle, E.D. (author), Oron-Gilad, Tal (author)Robots’ visual qualities (VQs) impact people’s perception of their characteristics and affect users’ behaviors and attitudes toward the robot. Recent years point toward a growing need for Socially Assistive Robots (SARs) in various contexts and functions, interacting with various users. Since SAR types have functional differences, the user...conference paper 2023
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Rezende Silva, G. (author), Garcia, Nadia Hammoudeh (author), Bozhinoski, D. (author), Deshpande, Harshavardhan (author), Garzon Oviedo, M.A. (author), Wasowski, Andrzej (author), Montero, Mariano Ramirez (author), Hernández, Carlos (author)Self-adaptation can be used in robotics to increase system robust- ness and reliability. This work describes the Metacontrol method for self-adaptation in robotics. Particularly, it details how the MROS (Metacontrol for ROS Systems) framework implements and pack- ages Metacontrol, and it demonstrate how MROS can be applied in a navigation...conference paper 2023
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Nagavarapu, Sarat Chandra (author), Abraham, Anuj (author), Selvaraj, Nithish Muthuchamy (author), Dauwels, J.H.G. (author)Autonomous vehicles (AV) are one of the greatest technological advancements of this decade and a giant leap in the transportation industry and mobile robotics. Autonomous vehicles face several major challenges in achieving higher levels of autonomy. One of these is to find a fast and reliable algorithm to process the sensor data so that the...conference paper 2023
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Zhou, Y. (author)Robots navigating in social environments inevitably exhibit behavior perceived as inappropriate by people, which they will repeat unless they are aware of them; hindering their social acceptance. This highlights the importance of robots detecting and adapting to the perceived appropriateness of their behavior, in line with what we found in a...conference paper 2023
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Hoggenmueller, Marius (author), Lupetti, M.L. (author), van der Maden, W.L.A. (author), Grace, Kazjon (author)Design fixation, a phenomenon describing designers' adherence to pre-existing ideas or concepts that constrain design outcomes, is particularly prevalent in human-robot interaction (HRI), for example, due to collectively held and stabilised imaginations of what a robot should look like or behave. In this paper, we explore the contribution of...conference paper 2023
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Ghassemian, Mona (author), Vukobratovic, Dejan (author), Papadopoulos, Christos (author), An, Xueli (author), Chatzimisios, Periklis (author), Aijaz, Adnan (author), Li, Peizheng (author), Valenzuela, Andres Meseguer (author), Venkatesha Prasad, Ranga Rao (author)With the increasing usage of robots in numerous vertical industries, the need for standardised solutions has intensified. A number of research and industrial communities and other Standards Developing Organisations (SDOs) have been actively working to identify areas in the robotics and automation sector that are suitable for standardisation. On...conference paper 2023