3 accepted papers
In robotic-assisted minimally invasive surgery, an assistant surgeon stands at the bedside to insert and manipulate instruments while the primary surgeon operates the robot. Augmented reality (AR) head-mounted displays (HMDs) may improve the assistant's spatial awareness, but require tracking of sur…
The use of robots in high-risk and extreme environments is crucial for tasks that are dangerous or inaccessible to humans and require high precision. Particularly in scenarios where the cost of failure is high, remote human teleoperation can be the preferred method of robot control due to the adapta
Current Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms struggle with long-horizon tasks where time can be wasted exploring dead ends and task progress may be easily reversed. We develop the SPOT framework, which explores within action safety zones, learns about unsafe regions without exploring them, and pri