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GuideNav: User-Informed Development of a Vision-Only Robotic Navigation Assistant For Blind Travelers
Hochul Hwang, Soowan Yang, Jahir Sadik Monon +4
While commendable progress has been made in user-centric research on mobile assistive systems for blind and low-vision (BLV) individuals, references that directly inform robot navi…
Human-Centered Development of Guide Dog Robots: Quiet and Stable Locomotion Control
Shangqun Yu, Hochul Hwang, Trung M. Dang +4
A quadruped robot is a promising system that can offer assistance comparable to that of dog guides due to its similar form factor. However, various challenges remain in making thes…
ConfigBot: Adaptive Resource Allocation for Robot Applications in Dynamic Environments
Rohit Dwivedula, Sadanand Modak, Aditya Akella +3
The growing use of service robots in dynamic environments requires flexible management of on-board compute resources to optimize the performance of diverse tasks such as navigation…
SYNAPSE: SYmbolic Neural-Aided Preference Synthesis Engine
Sadanand Modak, Noah Patton, Isil Dillig +1
This paper addresses the problem of preference learning, which aims to align robot behaviors through learning user specific preferences (e.g. "good pull-over location") from visual…
Creating and Repairing Robot Programs in Open-World Domains
Claire Schlesinger, Arjun Guha, Joydeep Biswas
Using Large Language Models (LLMs) to produce robot programs from natural language has allowed for robot systems that can complete a higher diversity of tasks. However, LLM-generat…
Lessons Learned from Developing a Human-Centered Guide Dog Robot for Mobility Assistance
Hochul Hwang, Ken Suzuki, Nicholas A Giudice +3
While guide dogs offer essential mobility assistance, their high cost, limited availability, and care requirements make them inaccessible to most blind or low vision (BLV) individu…