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Dhruva Kumar

3 accepted papers

2025

HomeEmergency - Using Audio to Find and Respond to Emergencies in the Home

RA-L 2025

In the United States alone accidental home deaths exceed 128,000 per year. Our work aims to enable home robots who respond to emergency scenarios in the home, preventing injuries and deaths. We introduce a new dataset of household emergencies based in the ThreeDWorld simulator. Each scenario in our

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2024

VLPG-Nav: Object Navigation Using Visual Language Pose Graph and Object Localization Probability Maps

IROS 2024poster

We present VLPG-Nav, a visual language navigation method for guiding robots to specified objects within household scenes. Unlike existing methods primarily focused on navigating the robot toward objects, our approach considers the additional challenge of centering the object within the robot’s camer…

Cited by 1SourceScholar
2023

Lighthouses and Global Graph Stabilization: Active SLAM for Low-compute, Narrow-FoV Robots

ICRA 2023poster

Autonomous exploration to build a map of an unknown environment is a fundamental robotics problem. However, the quality of the map directly influences the quality of subsequent robot operation. Instability in a simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) system can lead to poor-quality maps and sub…

Cited by 5SourceScholar