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Gabriele Abbate

7 accepted papers

2024

A Service Robot in the Wild: Analysis of Users Intentions, Robot Behaviors, and Their Impact on the Interaction

IROS 2024poster

We consider a service robot that offers chocolate treats to people passing in its proximity: it has the capability of predicting in advance a person’s intention to interact, and to actuate an "offering" gesture, subtly extending the tray of chocolates towards a given target. We run the system for mo…

Cited by 5SourceScholar
2024

A Sim-to-Real Deep Learning-Based Framework for Autonomous Nano-Drone Racing

RA-L 2024

Autonomous drone racing competitions are a proxy to improve unmanned aerial vehicles' perception, planning, and control skills. The recent emergence of autonomous nano-sized drone racing imposes new challenges, as their <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http

Cited by 14SourceScholar
2024

Predicting the Intention to Interact with a Service Robot: the Role of Gaze Cues

ICRA 2024poster

For a service robot, it is crucial to perceive as early as possible that an approaching person intends to interact: in this case, it can proactively enact friendly behaviors that lead to an improved user experience. We solve this perception task with a sequence-to-sequence classifier of a potential…

Cited by 8SourceScholar
2021

Pointing at Moving Robots: Detecting Events from Wrist IMU Data

ICRA 2021poster

We propose a practical approach for detecting the event that a human wearing an IMU-equipped bracelet points at a moving robot; the approach uses a learned classifier to verify if the robot motion (as measured by its odometry) matches the wrist motion, and does not require that the relative pose of…

Cited by 3SourceScholar
2019

Proximity Human-Robot Interaction Using Pointing Gestures and a Wrist-mounted IMU

ICRA 2019poster

We present a system for interaction between co-located humans and mobile robots, which uses pointing gestures sensed by a wrist-mounted IMU. The operator begins by pointing, for a short time, at a moving robot. The system thus simultaneously determines: that the operator wants to interact; the robot…

Cited by 45SourceScholar