3 papers
cs.RO2026
Pedestrians play chicken with an autonomous vehicle
Rakshit Soni, Charles Fox
Automated vehicles (AVs) are commonly programmed to yield unconditionally to pedestrians in the interest of safety. However, this design choice can give rise to the Freezing Robot…
cs.RO2026
OpenPodcar2: a robust, ROS2 vehicle for self-driving research
Rakshit Soni, Chris Waltham, Md Umar Ibrahim +2
OpenPodcar2 is a robust, ROS2-interfaced, low-cost, open source hardware and software, autonomous vehicle platform based on an off-the-shelf, hard-canopy, mobility scooter donor ve…
cs.RO2025
R4: rapid reproducible robotics research open hardware control system
Chris Waltham, Andy Perrett, Rakshit Soni +1
A key component of any robot is the interface between robotics middleware software and physical motors. New robots often use arbitrary, messy mixtures of closed and open motor driv…