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Failing Gracefully: Mitigating Impact of Inevitable Robot Failures
Duc M. Nguyen, Saad A. Ghani, Andrew Marshall +3
Service robots operate in household environments shared with humans, pets, and everyday objects, where they are highly susceptible to failures such as software crashes, hardware de…
ACME: A Multi-Cultural, Multi-Embodiment Social-Navigation Dataset
Shashank Rao Marpally, Allan Wang, Atharva Ghotavadekar +35
Understanding how robots and humans move in shared spaces is essential for designing effective social robot navigation policies and predicting human behavior. However, existing dat…
HUMEMBR: Learning Human Routines for Predictive Embodied Navigation
Samira Huber, Klaas Pelzer, Duc M. Nguyen +2
Understanding and navigating human-centered environments over extended periods of time while considering human behavior and routines remains a fundamental challenge in robotics. In…
Self-Improving VLA Policies: Selected Diffusion Noise for Spurious-Robust Action Smoothing
Duc Minh Nguyen, Bao-Ngoc Dao, Tung M. Luu +15
Diffusion-based Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies enable strong generalization in robotic manipulation, but remain sensitive to spurious visual correlations and noisy action ge…
Human-Robot Co-Transportation using Disturbance-Aware MPC with Pose Optimization
Al Jaber Mahmud, Amir Hossain Raj, Duc M. Nguyen +3
This paper proposes a new control algorithm for human-robot co-transportation using a robot manipulator equipped with a mobile base and a robotic arm. We integrate the regular Mode…
Anticipatory Task and Motion Planning
Roshan Dhakal, Duc M. Nguyen, Tom Silver +2
We consider a sequential task and motion planning (tamp) setting in which a robot is assigned continuous-space rearrangement-style tasks one-at-a-time in an environment that persis…