3 accepted papers
Learning from Demonstration (LfD) empowers novice users to teach robots daily life tasks without writing sophisticated code, thereby promoting the democratization of robotics. However, novice users often provide sub-optimal demonstrations, which can potentially impact the robot’s ability to efficien…
Teleoperation is increasingly recognized as a viable solution for deploying robots in hazardous environments. Controlling a robot to perform a complex or demanding task may overload operators resulting in poor performance. To design a robot controller to assist the human in executing such challengin
We present an omnidirectional ball wheel drive design that utilizes a permanent magnet as the drive roller to generate the contact force. Particularly interesting for novel human-mobile robot interaction scenarios where the users are expected to physically interact with many palm-sized robots, our d…