4 papers
The Robot Is Not Its Description: GaugeBench for Representation Robustness in Morphology-Aware Policies
Rahath Malladi, Arshia Sangwan, Rajesh K. Gupta +1
A robot description does more than specify a physical mechanism: it also encodes arbitrary conventions, such as joint-axis direction, joint-angle zero, and the order and names of l…
HiVAE: Hierarchical Latent Variables for Scalable Theory of Mind
Nigel Doering, Rahath Malladi, Arshia Sangwan +2
Theory of mind (ToM) enables AI systems to infer agents' hidden goals and mental states, but existing approaches focus mainly on small human understandable gridworld spaces. We int…
AeroSafe: Mobile Indoor Air Purification using Aerosol Residence Time Analysis and Robotic Cough Emulator Testbed
M Tanjid Hasan Tonmoy, Rahath Malladi, Kaustubh Singh +4
Indoor air quality plays an essential role in the safety and well-being of occupants, especially in the context of airborne diseases. This paper introduces AeroSafe, a novel approa…
SANGO: Socially Aware Navigation through Grouped Obstacles
Rahath Malladi, Amol Harsh, Arshia Sangwan +2
This paper introduces SANGO (Socially Aware Navigation through Grouped Obstacles), a novel method that ensures socially appropriate behavior by dynamically grouping obstacles and a…