Social robots are required to work in daily life environments. The navigation algorithms they need to safely move through these environments require reliable sensor data. We present a novel approach to increase the ...

This paper reviews current research works at the authors’ Institutions to illustrate how mobile robotics and related technologies can be used to enhance economical fruition, control, protection and social impact of the ...

Virtual assistants such as Cortana or Google Assistant are becoming familiar devices in everyday environments, where they are used to control real devices through natural language. This paper extends this application ...

Sensor fusion techniques are able to increase robustness and accuracy over data provided by isolated sensors. Fusion can be performed at a low level, creating shared data representations from multiple sensory inputs, or ...

The Mediterranean basin has an impressive amount of millenarian urban structures which have been modelled along centuries. Unfortunately, they are sometimes damaged due to both the passage of time as well as bad preservation ...

This paper describes a robotics cognitive architecture for social robots named CORTEX. This architecture integrates di fferent levels of abstraction (from basic geometry to high-level predicates) into a unique Deep Space ...

Robots are becoming part of our daily living. The next generation of robots include autonomous cars, context-aware vacuum cleaners, smart house devices, collaborative wheelchairs, etc. Some of these robots are designed ...