no code implementations • 15 Jan 2023 • Leonardo Lamanna, Luciano Serafini, Mohamadreza Faridghasemnia, Alessandro Saffiotti, Alessandro Saetti, Alfonso Gerevini, Paolo Traverso
Autonomous agents embedded in a physical environment need the ability to recognize objects and their properties from sensory data.
no code implementations • 11 May 2022 • Sera Buyukgoz, Jasmin Grosinger, Mohamed Chetouani, Alessandro Saffiotti
One way is to recognize humans' intentions and to act to fulfill them, like opening the door that you are about to cross.
no code implementations • 25 Feb 2022 • Peter Schüller, João Paolo Costeira, James Crowley, Jasmin Grosinger, Félix Ingrand, Uwe Köckemann, Alessandro Saffiotti, Martin Welss
Progress in several areas of computer science has been enabled by comfortable and efficient means of experimentation, clear interfaces, and interchangable components, for example using OpenCV for computer vision or ROS for robotics.
no code implementations • 29 Dec 2021 • Luciano Serafini, Raul Barbosa, Jasmin Grosinger, Luca Iocchi, Christian Napoli, Salvatore Rinzivillo, Jacques Robin, Alessandro Saffiotti, Teresa Scantamburlo, Peter Schueller, Paolo Traverso, Javier Vazquez-Salceda
The burgeoning of AI has prompted recommendations that AI techniques should be "human-centered".
no code implementations • 2 Feb 2021 • Andre Potenza, Andrey Kiselev, Alessandro Saffiotti, Amy Loutfi
This work presents a modular mobile robot for telepresence and disinfection with UVC lamps.
Robotics
no code implementations • 20 Nov 2020 • Mohamadreza Faridghasemnia, Daniele Nardi, Alessandro Saffiotti
Entities are described by their attributes, and entities that share attributes are often semantically related.
no code implementations • 1 Aug 2019 • Stevan Tomic, Federico Pecora, Alessandro Saffiotti
Future robots should follow human social norms in order to be useful and accepted in human society.
no code implementations • 5 Jun 2019 • Oscar Thörn, Peter Fögel, Peter Knudsen, Luis de Miranda, Alessandro Saffiotti
We present a case study of such a system in the domain of musical improvisation.
no code implementations • WS 2019 • Ozan Arkan Can, Pedro Zuidberg Dos Martires, Andreas Persson, Julian Gaal, Amy Loutfi, Luc De Raedt, Deniz Yuret, Alessandro Saffiotti
Therefore, we further propose Bayesian learning to resolve such inconsistencies between the natural language grounding and a robot's world representation by exploiting spatio-relational information that is implicitly present in instructions given by a human.
no code implementations • 30 Jul 2018 • Stevan Tomic, Federico Pecora, Alessandro Saffiotti
We use the notion of institution as a way to formally define and encapsulate norms, and we provide a formal framework for institutions.
no code implementations • 22 Mar 2018 • Barbara Bruno, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni, Federico Pecora, Antonio Sgorbissa, Alessandro Saffiotti
Cultural adaptation, i. e., the matching of a robot's behaviours to the cultural norms and preferences of its user, is a well known key requirement for the success of any assistive application.
1 code implementation • 27 Sep 2017 • Luca Buoncompagni, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni, Alessandro Saffiotti
This paper introduces a Fuzzy Logic framework for scene learning, recognition and similarity detection, where scenes are taught via human examples.
no code implementations • 21 Aug 2017 • Barbara Bruno, Nak Young Chong, Hiroko Kamide, Sanjeev Kanoria, Jaeryoung Lee, Yuto Lim, Amit Kumar Pandey, Chris Papadopoulos, Irena Papadopoulos, Federico Pecora, Alessandro Saffiotti, Antonio Sgorbissa
The nursing literature shows that cultural competence is an important requirement for effective healthcare.
no code implementations • 27 Mar 2013 • Alessandro Saffiotti
In this paper, we suggest marrying Dempster-Shafer (DS) theory with Knowledge Representation (KR).