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Human-in-the-Loop Approach for Enhanced Mobile Robot Navigation

Emotion recognition by facial image acquisition: analysis and experimentation of solutions based on neural networks and robot humanoid Pepper

Human-robot interaction and affective computing are cross-disciplinary fields whose connections are being further explored with the proliferation of humanoid robots that assist people in their daily activities. The proposed study aims to assess emotion recognition accuracy based on facial image acquisition, recorded by the camera sensor of the humanoid robot Pepper, during a human-robot interaction scenario. The emotions of the individuals involved were elicited by viewing five different vide...

Smart home heating system malfunction and bad behavior diagnosis by Multi-Scale PCA under indoor temperature feedback control

The household sector is one of the biggest aggregate consumers and this is the reason why increasingly policies have been considering it. One of the key factors in curbing energy consumption in this sector is widely recognized to be due to erroneous behaviors and systems malfunctioning. In this context, energy management in homes is playing, and will play even more in future, a key role in increasing the final consumer awareness towards its own energy consumption and consequently in bursting ...

Low cost RGB-D vision based system for on-line performance evaluation of motor disabilities rehabilitation at home

Physical rehabilitation is an important medical activity sector for the recovery of physical functions and clinical treatment of people affected by different pathologies: neurodegenerative diseases (i.e. multiple sclerosis, Parkinson and Alzheimer diseases, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), neuromuscular disorders (i.e. dystrophies, myopathies, amyotrophies and neuropathies), neurovascular disorders/trauma (i.e. stroke and traumatic brain injuries), and mobility for the elderly. During the reha...