5 papers
Layered Risk Mapping for Autonomous Patient Transport in Expeditionary Medical Facilities
Lorena Maria Genua, Sarvesh Prajapati, Damla Leblebicioglu +1
In expeditionary medical facilities, routine patient transport imposes a compounding burden of personal protective equipment consumption, staff diversion, and elevated infection ri…
Socially-Aware Autonomous Doorway Traversal and Payload Delivery for Emergency Assistance
Andrew Snowdy, Ananya Trivedi, Sarvesh Prajapati +2
In this work, we focus on the scenario of a robot-assisted emergency evacuation. We consider two capabilities relevant to such a setting. The first is opening doors ahead of the pe…
Just Keep Prompting: Evaluating Repetitive Socratic Prompting in VLMs
Shayda Moezzi, Bishoy Galoaa, Lorena Genua +2
Deploying Vision-Language Models (VLMs) in real-world settings requires not only strong visual reasoning but also stability under sustained conversational pressure. We introduce Ju…
Human-in-the-Loop Failure Recovery with Adaptive Task Allocation
Lorena Maria Genua, Nikita Boguslavskii, Zhi Li
Since the recent Covid-19 pandemic, mobile manipulators and humanoid assistive robots with higher levels of autonomy have increasingly been adopted for patient care and living assi…
Human-Robot Collaboration for the Remote Control of Mobile Humanoid Robots with Torso-Arm Coordination
Nikita Boguslavskii, Lorena Maria Genua, Zhi Li
Recently, many humanoid robots have been increasingly deployed in various facilities, including hospitals and assisted living environments, where they are often remotely controlled…