5 accepted papers
When robots enter our day-to-day lives, the shared space surrounding humans and robots is critical for facilitating Human-Robot collaboration. The design of shared space should satisfy humans' preferences and robots' efficiency. This work uses the kitchen as an example to illustrate the importance o
This paper investigates how a shepherd robot can efficiently steer a coherent group by intelligently moving behind the group in obstacle-filled environments. It was been shown that a model trained by deep reinforcement learning can guide a small number (2–4) of agents among obstacles. However, herdi…
When the human-robot interactions become ubiquitous, the environment surrounding these interactions will have significant impact on the safety and comfort of the human and the effectiveness and efficiency of the robot. Although most robots are designed to work in the spaces created for humans, many
Robotic shepherding problem considers the control and navigation of a group of coherent agents (e.g., a flock of bird or a fleet of drones) through the motion of an external robot, called shepherd. Machine learning based methods have successfully solved this problem in an environment with no obstacl
Visibility integrity (VI) is a measurement of similarity between the visibilities of regions. It can be used to approximate the visibility of coherently moving targets, called group visibility. It has been shown that computing visibility integrity using agglomerative clustering takes O(n4 log n) for