9 papers
Hypothesis-driven Model Expansion under Uncertainty for Open-World Robot Planning
Anxing Xiao, Hanbo Zhang, Tianrun Hu +1
We consider an open-world planning setting in which service robots must operate in unknown environments with incomplete knowledge of objects and actions. Traditional closed-world a…
CANINE: Coaching Visually Impaired Users for Interactive Navigation with a Robot Guide Dog
Cunjun Yu, Zishuo Wang, Anxing Xiao +2
Robot guide dogs offer navigation assistance that greatly expands the independent mobility of the visually impaired, but their effective use requires subtle human-robot coordinatio…
Visibility-Aware Mobile Grasping in Dynamic Environments
Tianrun Hu, Anxing Xiao, David Hsu +1
This paper addresses the problem of mobile grasping in dynamic, unknown environments where a robot must operate under a limited field-of-view. The fundamental challenge is the inhe…
From Obstacles to Etiquette: Robot Social Navigation with VLM-Informed Path Selection
Zilin Fang, Anxing Xiao, David Hsu +1
Navigating socially in human environments requires more than satisfying geometric constraints, as collision-free paths may still interfere with ongoing activities or conflict with…
MimicFunc: Imitating Tool Manipulation from a Single Human Video via Functional Correspondence
Chao Tang, Anxing Xiao, Yuhong Deng +5
Imitating tool manipulation from human videos offers an intuitive approach to teaching robots, while also providing a promising and scalable alternative to labor-intensive teleoper…
GSON: A Group-based Social Navigation Framework with Large Multimodal Model
Shangyi Luo, Peng Sun, Ji Zhu +4
With the increasing presence of service robots and autonomous vehicles in human environments, navigation systems need to evolve beyond simple destination reach to incorporate socia…