7 accepted papers
As autonomous mobile robots increasingly operate in real-world environments, safety has emerged as a critical challenge, particularly regarding obstacle and pedestrian detection in building blind spots and reliable traffic signal recognition. While traditional Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) systems…
As autonomous mobile robots increasingly operate in real-world environments, safety has emerged as a critical challenge, particularly regarding obstacle and pedestrian detection in building blind spots and reliable traffic signal recognition. While traditional Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) systems
Accurate localization is essential for enabling modern full self-driving services. These services heavily rely on map-based traffic information to reduce uncertainties in recognizing lane shapes, traffic light locations, and traffic signs. Achieving this level of reliance on map information requires
This paper introduces a cube-based reconfigurable robot that utilizes an electromagnet-based actuation framework to reconfigure in three dimensions via pivoting. While a variety of actuation mechanisms for self-reconfigurable robots have been explored, they often suffer from cost, complexity, assemb…
This paper introduces a method to generate highly selective encodings that can be magnetically “programmed” onto physical modules to enable them to self-assemble in chosen configurations. We generate these encodings based on Hadamard matrices, and show how to design the faces of modules to be maxima…
We present PufferBot, an aerial robot with an expandable structure that may expand to protect a drone's propellers when the robot is close to obstacles or collocated humans. PufferBot is made of a custom 3D-printed expandable scissor structure, which utilizes a one degree of freedom actuator with ra…
This work proposes a system able to recognize the user habits based on his daily activities in a smart house. The habit estimation system uses the information provided by an activity recognition module, which provides the sequence and the duration of the activities performed by the user. Based on th…