4 papers
Dual Stress: Runtime Safety Monitoring for Safety-Constrained MPC Navigation
Jamil Chahine, Wenqi Cai, John Abanes +1
Runtime hazard monitors for autonomous naviga- tion are conventionally built from geometric quantities: predicted clearance, time to collision, and required deceleration. A model-p…
Safe Human-to-Humanoid Motion Imitation Using Control Barrier Functions
Wenqi Cai, John Abanes, Nikolaos Evangeliou +1
Ensuring operational safety is critical for human-to-humanoid motion imitation. This paper presents a vision-based framework that enables a humanoid robot to imitate human movement…
MV-UMI: A Scalable Multi-View Interface for Cross-Embodiment Learning
Omar Rayyan, John Abanes, Mahmoud Hafez +2
Recent advances in imitation learning have shown great promise for developing robust robot manipulation policies from demonstrations. However, this promise is contingent on the ava…
CityWalker: Learning Embodied Urban Navigation from Web-Scale Videos
Xinhao Liu, Jintong Li, Yicheng Jiang +6
Navigating dynamic urban environments presents significant challenges for embodied agents, requiring advanced spatial reasoning and adherence to common-sense norms. Despite progres…