10 papers
Factorized Spatio-Temporal Convolutions for Human Pose Estimation from Planar Lidar
Simone Arreghini, Mirko Nava, Nicholas Carlotti +2
Localizing nearby humans and estimating their facing direction are key capabilities for safe navigation and socially aware human-robot interaction. Many pose-estimation pipelines t…
Towards Real-World Applications with an Autonomous Powered Wheelchair
Simone Arreghini, Alessandro Giusti, Alex Bordini +3
Wheelchair users call for assistive mobility systems that provide active support, adapt to dynamic environments, and are intuitive and user-friendly. However, powered wheelchairs t…
Exploring Human-Robot Collaboration: Analysis of Interaction Modalities in Challenging Tasks
Simone Arreghini, Cristina Iani, Alessandro Giusti +3
This work compares three interaction modalities for human-robot collaboration: passive, reactive, and proactive. We studied 18 participants assembling a seven-layer colored tower f…
Sixth-Sense: Self-Supervised Learning of Spatial Awareness of Humans from a Planar Lidar
Simone Arreghini, Nicholas Carlotti, Mirko Nava +2
Reliable localization of people is fundamental for service and social robots that must operate in close interaction with humans. State-of-the-art human detectors often rely on RGB-…
User-Tailored Learning to Forecast Walking Modes for Exosuits
Gabriele Abbate, Enrica Tricomi, Nathalie Gierden +3
Assistive robotic devices, like soft lower-limb exoskeletons or exosuits, are widely spreading with the promise of helping people in everyday life. To make such systems adaptive to…
Imitation Learning-based Direct Visual Servoing using the Large Projection Formulation
Sayantan Auddy, Antonio Paolillo, Justus Piater +1
Today robots must be safe, versatile, and user-friendly to operate in unstructured and human-populated environments. Dynamical system-based imitation learning enables robots to per…