4 papers
Safe and Transparent Robots for Human-in-the-Loop Meat Processing
Sagar Parekh, Casey Grothoff, Ryan Wright +2
Labor shortages have severely affected the meat processing sector. Automated technology has the potential to support the meat industry, assist workers, and enhance job quality. How…
Towards Balanced Behavior Cloning from Imbalanced Datasets
Sagar Parekh, Heramb Nemlekar, Dylan P. Losey
Robots should be able to learn complex behaviors from human demonstrations. In practice, these human-provided datasets are inevitably imbalanced: i.e., the human demonstrates some…
A Unified Framework for Robots that Influence Humans over Long-Term Interaction
Shahabedin Sagheb, Sagar Parekh, Ravi Pandya +4
Robot actions influence the decisions of nearby humans. Here influence refers to intentional change: robots influence humans when they shift the human's behavior in a way that help…
On the Human Control of a Multiple Quadcopters with a Cable-suspended Payload System
Pratik Prajapati, Sagar Parekh, Vineet Vashista
A quadcopter is an under-actuated system with only four control inputs for six degrees of freedom, and yet the human control of a quadcopter is simple enough to be learned with som…