Dakarai Crowder — accepted AI-conference papers

2026

Tactile-Based Human Intent Recognition for Robot Assistive Navigation

Shaoting Peng, Dakarai Crowder, Wenzhen Yuan, Katherine Driggs-Campbell

ICRA 2026poster

Robot assistive navigation (RAN) is critical for enhancing the mobility and independence of the growing population of mobility-impaired individuals. However, existing systems often rely on interfaces that fail to replicate the intuitive and efficient physical communication observed between a person …

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2025

Social Gesture Recognition in spHRI: Leveraging Fabric-Based Tactile Sensing on Humanoid Robots

Dakarai Crowder, Kojo Vandyck, Xiping Sun, James McCann, Wenzhen Yuan

ICRA 2025

Humans are able to convey different messages using only touch. Equipping robots with the ability to under-stand social touch adds another modality in which humans and robots can communicate. In this paper, we present a social gesture recognition system using a fabric-based, large-scale tactile senso

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