Ricerc@Sapienza

Mobile robots can be considered completely autonomous if they embed active algorithms for Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM). This means that the robot is able to autonomously, or actively, explore and create a reliable map of the environment, while simultaneously estimating its pose. In this paper, we propose a novel framework to robustly solve the active SLAM problem, in scenarios in which some prior information about the environment is available in the form of a topo-metric graph.

BackgroundAdd-on robot-mediated therapy has proven to be more effective than conventional therapy alone in post-stroke gait rehabilitation. Such robot-mediated interventions routinely use also visual biofeedback tools.

The paper deals with the long history of the word robot and related
terms throughout the European languages. Robot, a word invented
by the Czech writer Karel Čapek, nowadays is at the very heart of
the Western imagery, both in movies and literary creations, since the
first Asimov stories published during the forties of the past century.
The modern fictional and technological scenarios describe many
types of robots, thus spreading many new nouns. This is also a history
of dreams and nightmares, of machines conceived and created by