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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 due to their modularity, reactivity, and other beneficial characteristics…”
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A Motion Retargeting Method for Effective Mimicry-based Teleoperation of Robot Arms by Rakita, Daniel, Mutlu, Bilge, Gleicher, Michael

“… The premise of our method is that an interface that allows its user to direct a robot arm using the natural 6-DOF space of his/her hand would afford effective direct control of the robot…”
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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…”
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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 applications…”
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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

“… To control swarms of low-cost robots, researchers may end up spending countless hours brainstorming robot configurations and policies to "organically" create behaviors which do not need expensive sensors and perception…”
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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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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…”
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An Autonomous Dynamic Camera Method for Effective Remote Teleoperation by Rakita, Daniel, Mutlu, Bilge, Gleicher, Michael

“… The user controls the manipulation robot usinganyteleoperation interface, and the camera-in-hand robot automatically servos to provide a view of the remote environment that is estimated to best…”
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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 mathematical solvers, two contradictory goals…”
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Moving Horizon Planning for Human-Robot Interaction by Renz, Heiko, Kramer, Maximilian, Bertram, Torsten

“…), customizable for various robots, considering obstacles and humans in their environment. The planner generates motion commands in a moving horizon manner, similar to Model Predictive Control…”
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Cyber-Physical Systems: A Model-Based Approach by Taha, Walid M, Taha, Abd-Elhamid M, Thunberg, Johan

“…In this concise yet comprehensive Open Access textbook, future inventors are introduced to the key concepts of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS…”
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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

“… In response, we designed and deployed VectorConnect, a robot teleoperation system intended to help combat the efects of social distancing in children during the pandemic…”
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Intentional User Adaptation to Shared Control Assistance by Aronson, Reuben M., Schaertl Short, Elaine

“… However, people operating assisted systems continuously observe the robot behaving differently from their expectations, which may lead them to adapt their control behavior to better achieve their desired outcomes…”
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Mixed Reality Human Teleoperation by Black, David, Salcudean, Septimiu

“… The concept and its impact are discussed, the graphics, communications, controls, and haptics subsystems are explained, and results are presented that show the system's efficacy…”
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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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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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Analyzing and Improving Fault Tolerance of Learning-Based Navigation Systems by Wan, Zishen, Anwar, Aqeel, Hsiao, Yu-Shun, Jia, Tianyu, Reddi, Vijay Janapa, Raychowdhury, Arijit

“…Learning-based navigation systems are widely used in autonomous applications, such as robotics, unmanned vehicles and drones…”
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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…”
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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 misunderstanding in passing interactions with people…”
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Collision Prediction for Robotics Accelerators by Shah, Deval, Aamodt, Tor M.

“…Motion planning in dynamic environments is an important task for autonomous robotics…”
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