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Verifiable Surface Disinfection Using Ultraviolet Light with a Mobile Manipulation Robot by Sanchez, Alan G., Smart, William D.

“…Robots are being increasingly used in the fight against highly-infectious diseases such as the Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). By using robots in place of…”
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Towards more efficient navigation for robots and humans by Lu, David V., Smart, William D.

“…Effective robot navigation in the presence of humans is hard. Not only do human obstacles move, they react to the movements of the robot according to instinct…”
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Teaching a Robot Where to Park: A Scalable Crowdsourcing Approach by Bryant, De'Aira, Etiene, Tiago, Howard, Ayanna, Smart, William D., Glas, Dylan F.

“…For social robots to successfully integrate into daily life in home environments, they will need reliable models of the way people perceive and use space in…”
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Robots for humanity: using assistive robotics to empower people with disabilities by Chen, T. L., Ciocarlie, M., Cousins, S., Grice, P. M., Hawkins, K., Kaijen Hsiao, Kemp, C. C., Chih-Hung King, Lazewatsky, D. A., Leeper, A. E., Hai Nguyen, Paepcke, A., Pantofaru, C., Smart, W. D., Takayama, L.

“…Assistive mobile manipulators (AMMs) have the potential to one day serve as surrogates and helpers for people with disabilities, giving them the freedom to…”
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Perceived Barriers of Modified Ride-On Car Use of Young Children With Disabilities: A Content Analysis by Logan, Samuel W., Feldner, Heather A., Bogart, Kathleen R., Catena, Michele A., Hospodar, Christina M., Raja Vora, Joseline, Smart, William D., Massey, William V.

“…Modified ride-on cars have emerged as an early powered mobility option for young children with disabilities. The purpose of this study was to identify,…”
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Perceived Barriers Before and After a 3-Month Period of Modified Ride-On Car Use by Logan, Samuel W., Feldner, Heather A., Bogart, Kathleen R., Catena, Michele A., Hospodar, Christina M., Raja Vora, Joseline, Smart, William D., Massey, William V.

“…The purpose of the study is to examine how perceived barriers change before and after a 3-month period of modified ride-on car use. This study used a…”
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Framing Effects on Privacy Concerns about a Home Telepresence Robot by Rueben, Matthew, Bernieri, Frank J., Grimm, Cindy M., Smart, William D.

“…Privacy-sensitive robotics is an emerging area of HRI research. Judgments about privacy would seem to be context-dependent, but none of the promising work on…”
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Shape classification and normal estimation for non-uniformly sampled, noisy point data by Grimm, Cindy, Smart, William D.

“…We present an algorithm for robustly analyzing point data arising from sampling a 2D surface embedded in 3D, even in the presence of noise and non-uniform…”
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Special Issue on Open Source Software-Supported Robotics Research by Pantofaru, Caroline, Chitta, Sachin, Gerkey, Brian, Rusu, Radu, Smart, William D., Vaughan, Richard

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Guest Editorial: Introduction to the Special Issue on Resilient Control Architectures and Systems by Rieger, Craig G., Scheidt, David H., Smart, William D.

“…Modern societies depend on complex and critical infrastructures for energy, transportation, sustenance, medical care, emergency response, communications…”
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Decoding motor signals from the pediatric cortex: implications for brain-computer interfaces in children by Breshears, Jonathan D, Gaona, Charles M, Roland, Jarod L, Sharma, Mohit, Anderson, Nicholas R, Bundy, David T, Freudenburg, Zachary V, Smyth, Matthew D, Zempel, John, Limbrick, David D, Smart, William D, Leuthardt, Eric C

“…To demonstrate the decodable nature of pediatric brain signals for the purpose of neuroprosthetic control. We hypothesized that children would achieve levels…”
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Measuring optical distortion in aircraft transparencies: a fully automated system for quantitative evaluation by Dixon, Michael, Glaubius, Robert, Freeman, Philip, Pless, Robert, Gleason, Michael P., Thomas, Matthew M., Smart, William D.

“…We describe a complete system for quantitatively measuring the optical distortion in aircraft windshields and automatically classifying that distortion as…”
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Contextual Multi-Objective Path Planning by Nickelson, Anna, Tumer, Kagan, Smart, William D.

“…Many critical robot environments, such as healthcare and security, require robots to account for contextdependent criteria when performing their functions…”
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A Shared Autonomy Surface Disinfection System Using a Mobile Manipulator Robot by Sanchez, Alan G., Smart, William D.

“…Robots are being increasingly used in the fight against highly-infectious diseases such as Ebola, MERS, and SARS-CoV-2. Many of these robots use ultraviolet…”
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Seeing is comforting: Effects of teleoperator visibility in robot-mediated health care by Kraft, Kory, Smart, William D.

“…Teleoperated robots can be used to provide medical care to patients in infectious disease outbreaks, alleviating workers from being in dangerous infectious…”
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Fleet2D: A Fast and Light Simulator for Home Robotics by Sadhwani, Apaar, Badiozamani, Hamid, Agarwal, Tushar, Marthandam, Saraswathi, Atrash, Amin, Zhu, Jing, Raveendran, Aarthi, Smart, William D.

“…Home robots operate in diverse and dynamic environments, delivering a range of functions that enhance utility. Many of these functions span extended periods,…”
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Introduction to the special issue on the science behind embodied AI : The robots of the AAAI competition and exhibition by Rybski, Paul E., Smart, William D.

“…Issue Title: Special Issue on the Science Behind Embodied AI: The Robots of the AAAI Competition and Exhibition…”
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Layered costmaps for context-sensitive navigation by Lu, David V., Hershberger, Dave, Smart, William D.

“…Many navigation systems, including the ubiquitous ROS navigation stack, perform path-planning on a single costmap, in which the majority of information is…”
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Effective reinforcement learning for mobile robots by Smart, W.D., Pack Kaelbling, L.

“…Programming mobile robots can be a long, time-consuming process. Specifying the low-level mapping from sensors to actuators is prone to programmer…”
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Scalable Scheduling Policy Design for Open Soft Real-Time Systems by Glaubius, Robert, Tidwell, Terry, Sidoti, Braden, Pilla, David, Meden, Justin, Gill, Christopher, Smart, William D

“…Open soft real-time systems, such as mobile robots, must respond adaptively to varying operating conditions, while balancing the need to perform multiple…”
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