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EffBT: An Efficient Behavior Tree Reactive Synthesis and Execution Framework by Wu, Ziji, Huang, Yu, Huang, Peishan, Wen, Shanghua, Li, Minglong, Wang, Ji

“…Behavior Trees (BTs), originated from the control of Non-Player-Characters (NPCs), have been widely embraced in robotics and software engineering communities…”
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Human-Robot Mutual Adaptation in Shared Autonomy by Nikolaidis, Stefanos, Zhu, Yu Xiang, Hsu, David, Srinivasa, Siddhartha

“…Shared autonomy integrates user input with robot autonomy in order to control a robot and help the user to complete a task. Our work aims to improve the…”
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JESSIE: Synthesizing Social Robot Behaviors for Personalized Neurorehabilitation and Beyond by Kubota, Alyssa, Peterson, Emma I. C., Rajendren, Vaishali, Kress-Gazit, Hadas, Riek, Laurel D.

“…JESSIE is a robotic system that enables novice programmers to program social robots by expressing high-level specifications. We employ control synthesis with a…”
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A Motion Retargeting Method for Effective Mimicry-based Teleoperation of Robot Arms by Rakita, Daniel, Mutlu, Bilge, Gleicher, Michael

“…In this paper, we introduce a novel interface that allows novice users to effectively and intuitively tele-operate robot manipulators. The premise of our…”
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Would You Mind Me if I Pass by You?: Socially-Appropriate Behaviour for an Omni-based Social Robot in Narrow Environment by Senft, Emmanuel, Satake, Satoru, Kanda, Takayuki

“…Interacting physically with robots and sharing environment with them leads to situations where humans and robots have to cross each other in narrow corridors…”
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Intentional User Adaptation to Shared Control Assistance by Aronson, Reuben M., Schaertl Short, Elaine

“…Shared control approaches to robot assistance, which predict a user's goal based on their control input and provide autonomous assistance towards the predicted…”
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Implicit Communication in a Joint Action by Knepper, Ross A., Mavrogiannis, Christoforos I., Proft, Julia, Liang, Claire

“…Robots must be cognizant of how their actions will be interpreted in context. Actions performed in the context of a joint activity comprise two aspects:…”
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I Need to Pass Through! Understandable Robot Behavior for Passing Interaction in Narrow Environment by Fujioka, Yusuke, Liu, Yuyi, Kanda, Takayuki

“…We developed a motion control algorithm for a social mobile robot to intuitively convey its intent via social cues to pass through aisles and avoid…”
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Moving Horizon Planning for Human-Robot Interaction by Renz, Heiko, Kramer, Maximilian, Bertram, Torsten

“…The collaboration and interaction between humans and robots intensify with ongoing research and industry needs. Robots require a motion planner that…”
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Sobotify: A Framework for Turning Robots into Social Robots by Hubert, Heiko, Yun, Hae Seon

“…Sobotify is a software framework, which aims at simplifying the process of using robots in the field of social robotics. This paper delineates the design and…”
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Thinking and Moving: An Efficient Computing Approach for Integrated Task and Motion Planning in Cooperative Embodied AI Systems (Invited Paper) by Wan, Zishen, Du, Yuhang, Ibrahim, Mohamed, Zhao, Yang, Krishna, Tushar, Raychowdhury, Arijit

“…Cooperative embodied AI systems, where multiple agents collaborate to accomplish complex, long-horizon tasks, show significant promise for real-world…”
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Human-inspired Motion Planning for Omni-directional Social Robots by Kitagawa, Ryo, Liu, Yuyi, Kanda, Takayuki

“…Omni-directional robots have gradually been popular for social interactions with people in human environments. The characteristics of omni-directional bases…”
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A Sparsity-Aware Autonomous Path Planning Accelerator with Algorithm-Architecture Co-Design by Zhang, Yanjun, Niu, Xiaoyu, Zhang, Yifan, Tian, Hongzheng, Yu, Bo, Liu, Shaoshan, Huang, Sitao

“…Path planning is a critical task in autonomous driving systems that is most susceptible to real-time constraints but often demands computationally intensive…”
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Spiking Neural Networks as a Controller for Emergent Swarm Agents by Zhu, Kevin, Mattson, Connor, Snyder, Shay, Vega, Ricardo, Brown, Daniel S., Parsa, Maryam, Nowzari, Cameron

“…Drones which can swarm and loiter in a certain area cost hundreds of dollars, but mosquitos can do the same and are essentially worthless. To control swarms of…”
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Mixed Reality Human Teleoperation by Black, David, Salcudean, Septimiu

“…For many applications, remote guidance and telerobotics provide great advantages. For example, tele-ultrasound can bring much-needed expert healthcare to…”
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Challenges Deploying Robots During a Pandemic: An Effort to Fight Social Isolation Among Children by Tsoi, Nathan, Connolly, Joe, Adeniran, Emmanuel, Hansen, Amanda, Pineda, Kaitlynn Taylor, Adamson, Timothy, Thompson, Sydney, Ramnauth, Rebecca, Vazquez, Marynel, Scassellati, Brian

“…The practice of social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in billions of people quarantined in their homes. In response, we designed and deployed…”
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An Autonomous Dynamic Camera Method for Effective Remote Teleoperation by Rakita, Daniel, Mutlu, Bilge, Gleicher, Michael

“…In this paper, we present a method that improves the ability of remote users to teleoperate amanipulation robot arm by continuously providing them with an…”
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It's Not What You Do, It's How You Do It: Grounding Uncertainty for a Simple Robot by Hough, Julian, Schlangen, David

“…For effective HRI, robots must go beyond having good legibility of their intentions shown by their actions, but also ground the degree of uncertainty they…”
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Compact Real-time Avoidance on a Humanoid Robot for Human-robot Interaction by Nguyen, Dong Hai Phuong, Hoffmann, Matej, Roncone, Alessandro, Pattacini, Ugo, Metta, Giorgio

“…With robots leaving factories and entering less controlled domains, possibly sharing the space with humans, safety is paramount and multimodal awareness of the…”
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