10 papers
PhyPush: One Push is All You Need for Sensorless Physical Property Estimation with Physics-Guided Transformers
Koyo Fujii, Luis Figueredo, Praminda Caleb-Solly +4
Accurately estimating object mass and friction is fundamental to reliable robotic manipulation. While interactive perception is powerful, most approaches rely on specialized hardwa…
Beyond Detection -- Orchestrating Human-Robot-Robot Assistance via an Internet of Robotic Things Paradigm
Joseph Hunt, Koyo Fujii, Aly Magassouba +1
Hospital patient falls remain a critical and costly challenge worldwide. While conventional fall prevention systems typically rely on post-fall detection or reactive alerts, they a…
Facilitating the Emergence of Assistive Robots to Support Frailty: Psychosocial and Environmental Realities
Angela Higgins, Stephen Potter, Mauro Dragone +4
While assistive robots have much potential to help older people with frailty-related needs, there are few in use. There is a gap between what is developed in laboratories and what…
Analyzing Gait Adaptation with Hemiplegia Simulation Suits and Digital Twins
Jialin Chen, Jeremie Clos, Dominic Price +1
To advance the development of assistive and rehabilitation robots, it is essential to conduct experiments early in the design cycle. However, testing early prototypes directly with…
Ensemble Foreground Management for Unsupervised Object Discovery
Ziling Wu, Armaghan Moemeni, Praminda Caleb-Solly
Unsupervised object discovery (UOD) aims to detect and segment objects in 2D images without handcrafted annotations. Recent progress in self-supervised representation learning has…
Somatic Safety: An Embodied Approach Towards Safe Human-Robot Interaction
Steve Benford, Eike Schneiders, Juan Pablo Martinez Avila +9
As robots enter the messy human world so the vital matter of safety takes on a fresh complexion with physical contact becoming inevitable and even desirable. We report on an artist…