Observing Assistance Preferences via User-controlled Arbitration in Shared Control
GHC 8102Abstract: What factors influence people’s preferences for robot assistance during human-robot collaboration tasks? Answering this question can help roboticists formalize definitions of assistance that lead to higher user satisfaction and increased user acceptance of assistive technology. Often in human robot collaboration literature, we see assistance paradigms that aim to optimize task success metrics and/or measures [...]
RI Faculty Business Meeting
Newell-Simon Hall 4305Meeting for RI Faculty. Discussions include various department topics, policies, and procedures. Generally meets weekly.
Sparse-view 3D in the Wild
GHC 6501Abstract: Reconstructing 3D scenes and objects from images alone has been a long-standing goal in computer vision. We have seen tremendous progress in recent years, capable of producing near photo-realistic renderings from any viewpoint. However, existing approaches generally rely on a large number of input images (typically 50-100) in order to compute camera poses and [...]
Safely Influencing Humans in Human-Robot Interaction
GHC 8102Abstract: Robots are becoming more common in industrial manufacturing because of their speed and precision on repetitive tasks, but they lack the flexibility of human collaborators. In order to take advantage of both humans’ and robots’ abilities, we investigate how to improve the efficiency of human-robot collaborations by making sure that robots both 1. stay [...]