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Graph-Based Heuristics for Minimum Constraint Removal in Cluttered Robot Motion Planning
Antony Thomas, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni, Marco Baglietto
Humanoid and service robots operating in clut- tered human environments may encounter motion planning problems that are infeasible when all surrounding objects are treated as fixed…
On Representational Alignment among Embodied Agents
Fulvio Mastrogiovanni
Embodied agents interacting with the same physical process may maintain heterogeneous, asynchronous, and observer-relative representations. Rather than assuming that such represent…
A Horizon-slicing Approach to Minimum Obstacle Displacement Planning for Robot Navigation
Antony Thomas, Giulio Ferro, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni +2
In this paper, we investigate the Minimum Obstacle Displacement Planning problem from a robot motion planning perspective. The problem involves determining a feasible path to a goa…
Locally Optimal Solutions to Constraint Displacement Problems via Path-Obstacle Overlaps
Antony Thomas, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni, Marco Baglietto
We present a unified approach for constraint displacement problems in which a robot finds a feasible path by displacing constraints or obstacles. To this end, we propose a two stag…
A Framework for Task and Motion Planning based on Expanding AND/OR Graphs
Fulvio Mastrogiovanni, Antony Thomas
Robot autonomy in space environments presents unique challenges, including high perception and motion uncertainty, strict kinematic constraints, and limited opportunities for human…
A Task and Motion Planning Framework Using Iteratively Deepened AND/OR Graph Networks
Hossein Karami, Antony Thomas, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni
In this paper, we present an approach for integrated task and motion planning based on an AND/OR graph network, which is used to represent task-level states and actions, and we lev…
An Incremental Sampling and Segmentation-Based Approach for Motion Planning Infeasibility
Antony Thomas, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni, Marco Baglietto
We present a simple and easy-to-implement algorithm to detect plan infeasibility in kinematic motion planning. Our method involves approximating the robot's configuration space to…
The Effects of Selected Object Features on a Pick-and-Place Task: a Human Multimodal Dataset
Linda Lastrico, Valerio Belcamino, Alessandro Carfì +4
We propose a dataset to study the influence of object-specific characteristics on human pick-and-place movements and compare the quality of the motion kinematics extracted by vario…
Learning Symbolic Task Representation from a Human-Led Demonstration: A Memory to Store, Retrieve, Consolidate, and Forget Experiences
Luca Buoncompagni, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni
We present a symbolic learning framework inspired by cognitive-like memory functionalities (i.e., storing, retrieving, consolidating and forgetting) to generate task representation…
Digital Twins for Human-Robot Collaboration: A Future Perspective
Mohamad Shaaban, Alessandro Carfì, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni
As collaborative robot (Cobot) adoption in many sectors grows, so does the interest in integrating digital twins in human-robot collaboration (HRC). Virtual representations of phys…
Expressing and Inferring Action Carefulness in Human-to-Robot Handovers
Linda Lastrico, Nuno Ferreira Duarte, Alessandro Carfì +4
Implicit communication plays such a crucial role during social exchanges that it must be considered for a good experience in human-robot interaction. This work addresses implicit c…
RICO-MR: An Open-Source Architecture for Robot Intent Communication through Mixed Reality
Simone Macciò, Mohamad Shaaban, Alessandro Carfì +2
This article presents an open-source architecture for conveying robots' intentions to human teammates using Mixed Reality and Head-Mounted Displays. The architecture has been devel…
In-hand manipulation planning using human motion dictionary
Ali Hammoud, Valerio Belcamino, Alessandro Carfi +2
Dexterous in-hand manipulation is a peculiar and useful human skill. This ability requires the coordination of many senses and hand motion to adhere to many constraints. These cons…
Safe motion planning with environment uncertainty
Antony Thomas, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni, Marco Baglietto
We present an approach for safe motion planning under robot state and environment (obstacle and landmark location) uncertainties. To this end, we first develop an approach that acc…
Revisiting the Minimum Constraint Removal Problem in Mobile Robotics
Antony Thomas, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni, Marco Baglietto
The minimum constraint removal problem seeks to find the minimum number of constraints, i.e., obstacles, that need to be removed to connect a start to a goal location with a collis…
Computational Tradeoff in Minimum Obstacle Displacement Planning for Robot Navigation
Antony Thomas, Giulio Ferro, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni +1
In this paper, we look into the minimum obstacle displacement (MOD) planning problem from a mobile robot motion planning perspective. This problem finds an optimal path to goal by…
An Ergonomic Role Allocation Framework for Dynamic Human-Robot Collaborative Tasks
Elena Merlo, Edoardo Lamon, Fabio Fusaro +4
By incorporating ergonomics principles into the task allocation processes, human-robot collaboration (HRC) frameworks can favour the prevention of work-related musculoskeletal diso…
If You Are Careful, So Am I! How Robot Communicative Motions Can Influence Human Approach in a Joint Task
Linda Lastrico, Nuno Ferreira Duarte, Alessandro Carfì +4
As humans, we have a remarkable capacity for reading the characteristics of objects only by observing how another person carries them. Indeed, how we perform our actions naturally…
Robots with Different Embodiments Can Express and Influence Carefulness in Object Manipulation
Linda Lastrico, Luca Garello, Francesco Rea +4
Humans have an extraordinary ability to communicate and read the properties of objects by simply watching them being carried by someone else. This level of communicative skills and…
Gestural and Touchscreen Interaction for Human-Robot Collaboration: a Comparative Study
Antonino Bongiovanni, Alessio De Luca, Luna Gava +8
Close human-robot interaction (HRI), especially in industrial scenarios, has been vastly investigated for the advantages of combining human and robot skills. For an effective HRI,…
Mixed Reality as Communication Medium for Human-Robot Collaboration
Simone Macciò, Alessandro Carfì, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni
Humans engaged in collaborative activities are naturally able to convey their intentions to teammates through multi-modal communication, which is made up of explicit and implicit c…
Minimum Displacement Motion Planning for Movable Obstacles
Antony Thomas, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni
This paper presents a minimum displacement motion planning problem wherein obstacles are displaced by a minimum amount to find a feasible path. We define a metric for robot-obstacl…
Synthesis and Execution of Communicative Robotic Movements with Generative Adversarial Networks
Luca Garello, Linda Lastrico, Alessandra Sciutti +3
Object manipulation is a natural activity we perform every day. How humans handle objects can communicate not only the willfulness of the acting, or key aspects of the context wher…
Dynamic Human-Robot Role Allocation based on Human Ergonomics Risk Prediction and Robot Actions Adaptation
Elena Merlo, Edoardo Lamon, Fabio Fusaro +5
Despite cobots have high potential in bringing several benefits in the manufacturing and logistic processes, but their rapid (re-)deployment in changing environments is still limit…