7 accepted papers
A novel path planning algorithm, RewardRRT, is proposed to address the challenge of Multi-degree-of-freedom robot path planning in narrow environments. In this approach, RewardRRT conceptualizes the sampling tree of Rapidly-exploring Random Trees (RRT) as an agent, assigning a reward value function
Aotearoa New Zealand has a strong and growing apple industry but struggles to access workers to complete skilled, seasonal tasks such as thinning. To ensure effective thinning and make informed decisions on a per-tree basis, it is crucial to accurately measure the crop load of individual apple trees…
Task-oriented dialogue system has a vital role in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). However, it has been developed based on conventional pipeline approach which has several drawbacks; expensive, time-consuming, and so on. Based on this approach, developers manually define a robot's behaviour such as ge…
A robot cannot be warm and friendly - or can it? To explore whether a robot can be a medical receptionist, we developed a robotic system for interacting with patients at a doctor's clinic, including acting friendly. We designed the robot to interact naturally with patients at the start and finish of…
The motivation of the work presented here is to create a component of a safety system based on 3D lidar sensors, specifically for industrial environments where some rules can be set for people who will be in close proximity to working robots. Specifically, the operating procedure that is put in plac
Growth in world population, increasing urbanization and changing consumption habits mean demand for food production is predicted to increase dramatically over the coming decades. This increased demand for food production must be achieved despite challenges such as climate change, a limited supply of
Mobile service robots have the potential to improve the efficiency of fruit production in orchards. One of the key tasks that such robots must perform is traversing the rows. Many of the past implementations of row following in orchards have been developed for rows where the trees appear like walls…