4 papers
Benchmarking Robots for Everyday Environments: From Lab Experiments to Real-World Operations
Raphael Memmesheimer, Martina Overbeck, Dominik Beyer +20
This study presents an interdisciplinary process for benchmarking service robots in public everyday environments, addressing the gap between laboratory metrics and real-world opera…
Auditory Localization and Assessment of Consequential Robot Sounds: A Multi-Method Study in Virtual Reality
Marlene Wessels, Jorge de Heuvel, Leon Müller +3
Mobile robots increasingly operate alongside humans but are often out of sight, so that humans need to rely on the sounds of the robots to recognize their presence. For successful…
Immersive Explainability: Visualizing Robot Navigation Decisions through XAI Semantic Scene Projections in Virtual Reality
Jorge de Heuvel, Sebastian Müller, Marlene Wessels +3
End-to-end robot policies achieve high performance through neural networks trained via reinforcement learning (RL). Yet, their black box nature and abstract reasoning pose challeng…
Sound Matters: Auditory Detectability of Mobile Robots
Subham Agrawal, Marlene Wessels, Jorge de Heuvel +2
Mobile robots are increasingly being used in noisy environments for social purposes, e.g. to provide support in healthcare or public spaces. Since these robots also operate beyond…