In: Machines, 2020, vol. 8, no. 4, p. 17
Industrial robots are commonly used to perform interaction tasks (such as assemblies or polishing), requiring the robot to be in contact with the surrounding environment. Such environments are (partially) unknown to the robot controller. Therefore, there is the need to implement interaction controllers capable of suitably reacting to the established contacts. Although standard force controllers...
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In: Autonomous Robots, 2015, vol. 39, no. 1, p. 87-100
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In: Biological Invasions, 2015, vol. 17, no. 5, p. 1407-1423
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In: Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 2020, vol. 11, p. 881–897
Expanding the debate about empathy with human beings, animals, or fictional characters to include human-robot relationships, this paper proposes two different perspectives from which to assess the scope and limits of empathy with robots: the first is epistemological, while the second is normative. The epistemological approach helps us to clarify whether we can empathize with artificial...
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This paper analyzes the impact of one of the leading automation technologies of the last decades, industrial robots, on the declining labor force participation in the US. Exploiting exogenous variation in the adoption of robots across local labor markets and over time, I find that, on average, one additional robot drives two workers out of the labor force. Despite the adverse impact of robots,...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2020 ; 2020INFO004.
Human-robot interaction (HRI) is an active area of research and an essential component for the effective integration of mobile robots in everyday environments. In this PhD work, we studied, designed, implemented, and experimentally validated new efficient interaction modalities between humans and robots that share the same workspace. The core of the work revolves around deictic (pointing)...
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Mémoire de bachelor : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2019 ; TDIBM 63.
In a not too distant future, autonomous vehicles might be part of our life, offering us a new type of mobility with promising benefits. Nevertheless, they are also expected to disrupt our environment in all kind of manners and potentially threaten sectors related to transports and mobility. The main objective of this thesis was to understand and find out the different effects that those could...
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In: it - Information Technology, 2015, vol. 57, no. 4, p. 231-242
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2018 ; 2018INFO010.
Autonomous robots in real-world environments face a number of challenges even to accomplish apparently simple tasks like moving to a given location. We present four realistic scenarios in which robot navigation takes into account partial information, hierarchical structures, and multiple objectives. We start by discussing navigation in indoor environments shared with people, where routes are...
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In: Algorithmica, 2013, vol. 65, no. 1, p. 43-59
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