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06/14/2023
Towards vision-based dual arm robotic fruit harvesting
Interest in agricultural robotics has increased considerably in recent y...
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05/21/2023
Variable Grasp Pose and Commitment for Trajectory Optimization
We propose enhancing trajectory optimization methods through the incorpo...
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05/10/2023
Robot Gaze During Autonomous Navigation and its Effect on Social Presence
As robots have become increasingly common in human-rich environments, it...
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04/24/2023
A Benchmark for Cycling Close Pass Near Miss Event Detection from Video Streams
Cycling is a healthy and sustainable mode of transport. However, interac...
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03/20/2023
Rotating Objects via In-Hand Pivoting using Vision, Force and Touch
We propose a robotic manipulation system that can pivot objects on a sur...
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01/07/2023
Crafting with a Robot Assistant: Use Social Cues to Inform Adaptive Handovers in Human-Robot Collaboration
We study human-robot handovers in a naturalistic collaboration scenario,...
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11/16/2022
Comparing Subjective Perceptions of Robot-to-Human Handover Trajectories
Robots must move legibly around people for safety reasons, especially fo...
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10/11/2022
In-Hand Gravitational Pivoting Using Tactile Sensing
We study gravitational pivoting, a constrained version of in-hand manipu...
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08/25/2022
Autonomous social robot navigation in unknown urban environments using semantic segmentation
For autonomous robots navigating in urban environments, it is important ...
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07/06/2022
Deep Learning Approaches to Grasp Synthesis: A Review
Grasping is the process of picking an object by applying forces and torq...
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06/12/2022
Integrating High-Resolution Tactile Sensing into Grasp Stability Prediction
We investigate how high-resolution tactile sensors can be utilized in co...
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05/21/2022
Shared-Control Robotic Manipulation in Virtual Reality
In this paper, we present the implementation details of a Virtual Realit...
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03/29/2022
AR Point Click: An Interface for Setting Robot Navigation Goals
This paper considers the problem of designating navigation goal location...
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03/16/2022
On-The-Go Robot-to-Human Handovers with a Mobile Manipulator
Existing approaches to direct robot-to-human handovers are typically imp...
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02/25/2022
Visibility Maximization Controller for Robotic Manipulation
Occlusions caused by a robot's own body is a common problem for closed-l...
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02/02/2022
Metrics for Evaluating Social Conformity of Crowd Navigation Algorithms
Recent protocols and metrics for training and evaluating autonomous robo...
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11/04/2021
Speed Maps: An Application to Guide Robots in Human Environments
We present the concept of speed maps: speed limits for mobile robots in ...
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10/29/2021
ARviz – An Augmented Reality-enabled Visualization Platform for ROS Applications
Current robot interfaces such as teach pendants and 2D screen displays u...
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07/14/2021
Mixing Human Demonstrations with Self-Exploration in Experience Replay for Deep Reinforcement Learning
We investigate the effect of using human demonstration data in the repla...
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04/15/2021
Tabletop Object Rearrangement: Team ACRV's Entry to OCRTOC
Open Cloud Robot Table Organization Challenge (OCRTOC) is one of the mos...
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04/12/2021
Virtual Barriers in Augmented Reality for Safe and Effective Human-Robot Cooperation in Manufacturing
Safety is a fundamental requirement in any human-robot collaboration sce...
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04/08/2021
Seeing Thru Walls: Visualizing Mobile Robots in Augmented Reality
We present an approach for visualizing mobile robots through an Augmente...
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04/07/2021
Demonstrating Cloth Folding to Robots: Design and Evaluation of a 2D and a 3D User Interface
An appropriate user interface to collect human demonstration data for de...
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03/06/2021
Visualizing Robot Intent for Object Handovers with Augmented Reality
Humans are very skillful in communicating their intent for when and wher...
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03/06/2021
Passing Through Narrow Gaps with Deep Reinforcement Learning
The DARPA subterranean challenge requires teams of robots to traverse di...
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01/23/2021
Learning Setup Policies: Reliable Transition Between Locomotion Behaviours
Dynamic platforms that operate over manyunique terrain conditions typica...
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01/02/2021
Semantics for Robotic Mapping, Perception and Interaction: A Survey
For robots to navigate and interact more richly with the world around th...
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11/01/2020
Learning When to Switch: Composing Controllers to Traverse a Sequence of Terrain Artifacts
Legged robots often use separate control policies that are highly engine...
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10/28/2020
Joint Path and Push Planning Among Movable Obstacles
This paper explores the Navigation Among Movable Obstacles (NAMO) proble...
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10/16/2020
Decentralized Multi-Agent Pursuit using Deep Reinforcement Learning
Pursuit-evasion is the problem of capturing mobile targets with one or m...
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10/08/2020
Guided Curriculum Learning for Walking Over Complex Terrain
Reliable bipedal walking over complex terrain is a challenging problem, ...
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10/07/2020
Learning Arbitrary-Goal Fabric Folding with One Hour of Real Robot Experience
Manipulating deformable objects, such as fabric, is a long standing prob...
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08/24/2020
Strawberry Detection using Mixed Training on Simulated and Real Data
This paper demonstrates how simulated images can be useful for object de...
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07/25/2020
Object Handovers: a Review for Robotics
This article surveys the literature on human-robot object handovers. A h...
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07/20/2020
Gesture Recognition for Initiating Human-to-Robot Handovers
Human-to-Robot handovers are useful for many Human-Robot Interaction sce...
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06/02/2020
Object-Independent Human-to-Robot Handovers using Real Time Robotic Vision
We present an approach for safe and object-independent human-to-robot ha...
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05/02/2020
Supportive Actions for Manipulation in Human-Robot Coworker Teams
The increasing presence of robots alongside humans, such as in human-rob...
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04/01/2020
Learning to Place Objects onto Flat Surfaces in Human-Preferred Orientations
We study the problem of placing a grasped object on an empty flat surfac...
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01/30/2020
Model-free vision-based shaping of deformable plastic materials
We address the problem of shaping deformable plastic materials using non...
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06/17/2019
Embracing Contact: Pushing Multiple Objects with Robot's Forearm
Grasping is the dominant approach for robot manipulation, but only a sin...
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05/22/2019
Practical Robot Learning from Demonstrations using Deep End-to-End Training
Robots need to learn behaviors in intuitive and practical ways for wides...
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04/11/2019
Learning to Take Good Pictures of People with a Robot Photographer
We present a robotic system capable of navigating autonomously by follow...
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08/07/2018
Collaborative Planning for Mixed-Autonomy Lane Merging
Driving is a social activity: drivers often indicate their intent to cha...
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06/01/2018
Modeling Preemptive Behaviors for Uncommon Hazardous Situations From Demonstrations
This paper presents a learning from demonstration approach to programmin...
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02/28/2018
Selective Experience Replay for Lifelong Learning
Deep reinforcement learning has emerged as a powerful tool for a variety...
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11/30/2017
Transferring Autonomous Driving Knowledge on Simulated and Real Intersections
We view intersection handling on autonomous vehicles as a reinforcement ...
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10/24/2017
Context Aware Robot Navigation using Interactively Built Semantic Maps
We discuss the process of building semantic maps, how to interactively l...
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05/02/2017
Analyzing Knowledge Transfer in Deep Q-Networks for Autonomously Handling Multiple Intersections
We analyze how the knowledge to autonomously handle one type of intersec...
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05/02/2017
Navigating Intersections with Autonomous Vehicles using Deep Reinforcement Learning
Providing an efficient strategy to navigate safely through unsignaled in...
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05/02/2017