2014

D. McColl and G. Nejat, “Human-Robot Interaction for Assistance with Activities of Daily Living: A Case Study of the Socially and Cognitively Engaging Brian 2.1 in the Long-Term Care Setting,” Speech and Automata in Healthcare: Voice Controlled Medical and Surgical Robots, De Gruyter Publishing, pp. 183-204, 2014.

V. Marin, W. Chang and G. Nejat, “Generic Design Methodology for the Development of 3D Structured-light Sensory Systems for Measuring Complex Objects,” Optical Engineering, vol. 53, no. 11, 112210, 2014. (DOI)

B. Doroodgar, Y. Liu  and G. Nejat, “A  Learning-Based Semi-Autonomous Controller for Robotic Exploration of Unknown Disaster Scenes While Searching for Victims,” IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics Part B, Vol. 44, No. 12, 2014. (DOI)

D. McColl and G. Nejat, “Recognizing Emotional Body Language Displayed by a Human-like Social Robot,” International Journal of Social Robotics, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 261-280, 2014. (DOI)

W. G. Louie, D. McColl and G. Nejat, “Acceptance and Attitudes Towards a Human-Like Socially Assistive Robot by Older Adults,” Assistive Technology, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 140-150, 2014. (DOI)

P. Bovbel and G. Nejat, “Casper: An Assistive Kitchen Robot to Promote Aging in Place,” Journal of Medical Devices-Transactions of the ASME, Vol. 8, no. 8, 030945, 2014. (DOI)

D. McColl and G. Nejat, “A Socially Assistive Robot that can Monitor Affect of the Elderly during Meal-Time Assistance,”  Journal of Medical Devices-Transactions of the ASME, vol. 8, no. 3, 030941, 2014. (DOI)

W.G. Louie, T. Vaquero, G. Nejat and J. C. Beck, "An Autonomous Assistive Robot for Planning, Scheduling and Facilitating Multi-User Activities," 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 5292-5298, 2014. (DOI)

M. Schwenk, T. Vaquero, G. Nejat and K.O. Arras, “Schedule-based Robotic Search for Multiple Residents in a Retirement Home Environment,” AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 2571-2577, April 2014. (DOI)

W.G. Louie, J. Li, T. Vaquero, G. Nejat, “A Focus Group Study on the Design Considerations and Impressions of a Socially Assistive Robot for Long-Term Care,” IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, pp. 237-242, 2014. (DOI)

D. McColl and G. Nejat, “Determining the Affective Body Language of Older Adults during Socially Assistive HRI,” IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 2633-2638, 2014. (DOI)

M. Schwenk, T. Vaquero, G. Nejat and K.O. Arras, “Planning a Robot’s Search for Multiple Residents in a Retirement Home Environment,” International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling ICAPS Workshop on Planning and Robotics, pp.136-144, 2014. 

T. Vaquero, G. Nejat and J.C. Beck, “Planning and Scheduling Single and Multi-Person Activities in  Retirement Home Settings for a Group of Robots,” International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS) Workshop on Planning and Robotics, pp. 59-68, 2014.

Y. Liu and G. Nejat, “Learning-Based Multi-Robot Cooperation in Urban Search and Rescue Environments,” CSME International Congress, 2014.

J. Chen, K.L. Chaudhary, R. Benegal, M. Chakraborty, W.G. Louie, G. Nejat, “The Design of an Automated Bingo Mixer for Robot-Facilitated Bingo Games,” CSME International Congress, 2014.

E. Zhou, M. Zhu, G. Nejat and B. Benhabib, “Autonomous Positioning of Spatial Parallel Kinematic Mechanisms – A meso-Milling Machine Example,” CIRP sponsored International Conference on Virtual Machining Process Technology, May 2014.

F. Shao and Goldie Nejat, “Vibration Analysis of a Novel 3-Component Piezoelectric Force Sensor,” CIRP sponsored International Conference on Virtual Machining Process Technology, May 2014.

Y. Feng, F. Shao and Goldie Nejat, “Prototype Development of a Three-Component Force Sensor for Meso Milling Applications,” CIRP sponsored International Conference on Virtual Machining Process Technology, May 2014.

V. Marin, W. Chang and G. Nejat, “A Multi-Objective Design Methodology for 3D Structured-Light Sensors,” CIRP sponsored International Conference on Virtual Machining Process Technology, May 2014.