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From Rollout to Reset: A Graph-Based Harness for Autonomous Long-Horizon Manipulation Evaluation
Jing Jiang, Yue Yang, Xinkai Jiang +3
Robot manipulation policies are improving quickly, and real-robot evaluation remains the standard evidence for that progress. It still relies on a human to reset the scene between…
LiLo-VLA: Compositional Long-Horizon Manipulation via Linked Object-Centric Policies
Yue Yang, Shuo Cheng, Yu Fang +4
General-purpose robots must master long-horizon manipulation, defined as tasks involving multiple kinematic structure changes (e.g., attaching or detaching objects) in unstructured…
Dynamic Competency Self-Assessment for Autonomous Agents
Nicholas Conlon, Nisar R. Ahmed, Daniel Szafir
As autonomous robots are deployed in increasingly complex environments, platform degradation, environmental uncertainties, and deviations from validated operation conditions can ma…
Generating Executable Action Plans with Environmentally-Aware Language Models
Maitrey Gramopadhye, Daniel Szafir
Large Language Models (LLMs) trained using massive text datasets have recently shown promise in generating action plans for robotic agents from high level text queries. However, th…
Investigating the Effects of Robot Proficiency Self-Assessment on Trust and Performance
Nicholas Conlon, Daniel Szafir, Nisar Ahmed
Human-robot teams will soon be expected to accomplish complex tasks in high-risk and uncertain environments. Here, the human may not necessarily be a robotics expert, but will need…
Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality for Human-Robot Interaction: A Survey and Virtual Design Element Taxonomy
Michael Walker, Thao Phung, Tathagata Chakraborti +2
Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality for Human-Robot Interaction (VAM-HRI) has been gaining considerable attention in research in recent years. However, the HRI community lacks a…
Visualization of Intended Assistance for Acceptance of Shared Control
Connor Brooks, Daniel Szafir
In shared control, advances in autonomous robotics are applied to help empower a human user in operating a robotic system. While these systems have been shown to improve efficiency…
RoomShift: Room-scale Dynamic Haptics for VR with Furniture-moving Swarm Robots
Ryo Suzuki, Hooman Hedayati, Clement Zheng +5
RoomShift is a room-scale dynamic haptic environment for virtual reality, using a small swarm of robots that can move furniture. RoomShift consists of nine shape-changing robots: R…
REFORM: Recognizing F-formations for Social Robots
Hooman Hedayati, Annika Muehlbradt, Daniel J. Szafir +1
Recognizing and understanding conversational groups, or F-formations, is a critical task for situated agents designed to interact with humans. F-formations contain complex structur…
PufferBot: Actuated Expandable Structures for Aerial Robots
Hooman Hedayati, Ryo Suzuki1, Daniel Leithinger +1
We present PufferBot, an aerial robot with an expandable structure that may expand to protect a drone's propellers when the robot is close to obstacles or collocated humans. Puffer…
Building Second-Order Mental Models for Human-Robot Interaction
Connor Brooks, Daniel Szafir
The mental models that humans form of other agents---encapsulating human beliefs about agent goals, intentions, capabilities, and more---create an underlying basis for interaction.…
Virtual-to-Real-World Transfer Learning for Robots on Wilderness Trails
Michael L. Iuzzolino, Michael E. Walker, Daniel Szafir
Robots hold promise in many scenarios involving outdoor use, such as search-and-rescue, wildlife management, and collecting data to improve environment, climate, and weather foreca…