7 accepted papers
With the increasing use of wireless technologies in robotics for communication, sensing, and localization, the potential benefits of how robotics can complement and enhance wireless systems remain underexplored. This paper explores a novel application of the existing inflatable robots for wireless c
This paper explores a machine learning approach on data from a single-chip mmWave radar for generating high resolution point clouds – a key sensing primitive for robotic applications such as mapping, odometry and localization. Unlike lidar and vision-based systems, mmWave radar can operate in harsh…
Recent work on battery-free soft robotics has demonstrated the use of liquid crystal elastomers (LCE) to build shape-changing materials activated by applied external heat. However, sources of heat must typically be in direct field-of-view of the robot (i.e. NIR, laser, and visual light EM sources or…
Robotic geo-fencing and surveillance systems require accurate monitoring of objects if/when they violate perimeter restrictions. In this paper, we seek a solution for depth imaging of such objects of interest at high accuracy (few tens of cm) over extended ranges (up to 300 meters) from a single van…
This paper presents the WiFi-Sensor-for-Robotics (WSR) open-source toolbox111Code: https://github.com/Harvard-REACT/WSR-Toolbox Dataset: https://github.com/Harvard-REACT/WSR-Toolbox-Dataset Demo: https://github.com/Harvard-REACT/WSR-Toolbox/wiki/Demo. It enables robots in a team to obtain relative b…
This paper presents a radio-frequency (RF) based assistive technology for voice impairments (i.e., dysphonia), which occurs in an estimated 1% of the global population. We specifically focus on acquired voice disorders where users continue to be able to make facial and lip gestures associated with s…
Multi-robot networks use wireless communication to provide wide-ranging services such as aerial surveillance and unmanned delivery. However, effective coordination between multiple robots requires trust, making them particularly vulnerable to cyber-attacks. Specifically, such networks can be gravely…