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Jonathon Taufatofua

2 accepted papers

2018

Designing for Robust Movement in a Child-Friendly Robot

IROS 2018poster

Motion is a critical aspect of communication, required to create natural interactions between humans and robots. Robots for the classroom pose several constraints on motion, which make them challenging to design, including maintaining the safety of the child and the robot, responding in a timely fas…

Cited by 5SourceScholar
2018

PiRat: An Autonomous Framework for Studying Social Behaviour in Rats and Robots

IROS 2018poster

The use of robots, as a social stimulus, provides several advantages over using another animal. In particular, for rat-robot studies, robots can produce social behaviour that is reproducible across trials. In the current work, we outline a framework for rat-robot interaction studies, that consists o…

Cited by 18SourceScholar