4 papers
Bi-level RL-Heuristic Optimization for Real-world Winter Road Maintenance
Yue Xie, Zizhen Xu, William Beazley +1
Winter road maintenance is critical for ensuring public safety and reducing environmental impacts, yet existing methods struggle to manage large-scale routing problems effectively…
Human Emotion-Mediated Soft Robotic Arts: Exploring the Intersection of Human Emotions, Soft Robotics and Arts
Saitarun Nadipineni, Chenhao Hong, Tanishtha Ramlall +4
Soft robotics has emerged as a versatile field with applications across various domains, from healthcare to industrial automation, and more recently, art and interactive installati…
Palpation Alters Auditory Pain Expressions with Gender-Specific Variations in Robopatients
Chapa Sirithunge, Yue Xie, Saitarun Nadipineni +2
Diagnostic errors remain a major cause of preventable mortality, particularly in resource limited settings. Medical training simulators, including robopatients, help reduce such er…
Auditory-Tactile Congruence for Synthesis of Adaptive Pain Expressions in RoboPatients
Saitarun Nadipineni, Chapa Sirithunge, Yue Xie +2
Misdiagnosis can result in delayed treatment and patient harm. Robotic patient simulators (robopatients) provide a controlled framework for training and evaluating clinicians in ra…