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Safe Stochastic Explorer: Enabling Safe Goal Driven Exploration in Stochastic Environments and Safe Interaction with Unknown Objects
Nikhil Uday Shinde, Dylan Hirsch, Michael C. Yip +1
Autonomous robots operating in unstructured, safety-critical environments, from planetary exploration to warehouses and homes, must learn to safely navigate and interact with their…
Learning to Nudge: A Scalable Barrier Function Framework for Safe Robot Interaction in Dense Clutter
Haixin Jin, Nikhil Uday Shinde, Soofiyan Atar +5
Robots operating in everyday environments must navigate and manipulate within densely cluttered spaces, where physical contact with surrounding objects is unavoidable. Traditional…
From Space to Time: Enabling Adaptive Safety with Learned Value Functions via Disturbance Recasting
Sander Tonkens, Nikhil Uday Shinde, Azra Begzadić +3
The widespread deployment of autonomous systems in safety-critical environments such as urban air mobility hinges on ensuring reliable, performant, and safe operation under varying…
JIGGLE: An Active Sensing Framework for Boundary Parameters Estimation in Deformable Surgical Environments
Nikhil Uday Shinde, Xiao Liang, Fei Liu +4
Surgical automation can improve the accessibility and consistency of life saving procedures. Most surgeries require separating layers of tissue to access the surgical site, and sut…
SURESTEP: An Uncertainty-Aware Trajectory Optimization Framework to Enhance Visual Tool Tracking for Robust Surgical Automation
Nikhil U. Shinde, Zih-Yun Chiu, Florian Richter +4
Inaccurate tool localization is one of the main reasons for failures in automating surgical tasks. Imprecise robot kinematics and noisy observations caused by the poor visual acuit…
Investigating Low Data, Confidence Aware Image Prediction on Smooth Repetitive Videos using Gaussian Processes
Nikhil U. Shinde, Xiao Liang, Florian Richter +1
The ability to predict future states is crucial to informed decision-making while interacting with dynamic environments. With cameras providing a prevalent and information-rich sen…