16 citations · 22 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for
5 papers
Computationally-Efficient Roadmap-based Inspection Planning via Incremental Lazy Search
Mengyu Fu, Oren Salzman, Ron Alterovitz
The inspection-planning problem calls for computing motions for a robot that allow it to inspect a set of points of interest (POIs) while considering plan quality (e.g., plan lengt…
A Recurrent Neural Network Approach to Roll Estimation for Needle Steering
Maxwell Emerson, James M. Ferguson, Tayfun Efe Ertop +8
Steerable needles are a promising technology for delivering targeted therapies in the body in a minimally-invasive fashion, as they can curve around anatomical obstacles and hone i…
Robust Navigation of a Soft Growing Robot by Exploiting Contact with the Environment
Joseph D. Greer, Laura H. Blumenschein, Ron Alterovitz +2
Navigation and motion control of a robot to a destination are tasks that have historically been performed with the assumption that contact with the environment is harmful. This mak…
Toward Asymptotically-Optimal Inspection Planning via Efficient Near-Optimal Graph Search
Mengyu Fu, Alan Kuntz, Oren Salzman +1
Inspection planning, the task of planning motions that allow a robot to inspect a set of points of interest, has applications in domains such as industrial, field, and medical robo…
Enabling Robots to Understand Incomplete Natural Language Instructions Using Commonsense Reasoning
Haonan Chen, Hao Tan, Alan Kuntz +2
Enabling robots to understand instructions provided via spoken natural language would facilitate interaction between robots and people in a variety of settings in homes and workpla…