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Verifiable Surface Disinfection Using Ultraviolet Light with a Mobile Manipulation Robot
Published in Technologies (Basel) (01-04-2022)“…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
Published in 2013 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (01-11-2013)“…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
Published in 2023 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) (28-08-2023)“…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
Published in IEEE robotics & automation magazine (01-03-2013)“…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
Published in Pediatric physical therapy (01-04-2020)“…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
Published in Pediatric physical therapy (01-07-2020)“…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
Published in 2017 12th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI (06-03-2017)“…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
Published in Computers & graphics (01-08-2011)“…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
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Guest Editorial: Introduction to the Special Issue on Resilient Control Architectures and Systems
Published in IEEE transactions on cybernetics (01-11-2014)“…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
Published in Pediatrics (Evanston) (01-07-2011)“…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
Published in Machine vision and applications (01-09-2011)“…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
Published in 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (29-05-2023)“…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
Published in 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR) (25-10-2021)“…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
Published in 2016 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) (01-03-2016)“…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
Published in 2023 Seventh IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IRC) (11-12-2023)“…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
Published in Autonomous robots (01-05-2007)“…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
Published in 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (01-09-2014)“…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
Published in Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (2002)“…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
Published in 2010 16th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (01-04-2010)“…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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