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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…

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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

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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…

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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…

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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…

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