SIREN: Underwater Robot-to-Human Communication Using Audio
Published in Robotics & Automation Letters, presented at ICRA 2024, 2024
An audio-based robot-to-human communication method. Read more
Publications
HREyes: Design, Development, and Evaluation of a Novel Method for AUVs to Communicate Information and Gaze Direction
Published in ICRA 2023,, 2023
A new method for light-based robot-to-human communication underwater Read more
Robotic Detection of a Human-Comprehensible Gestural Language for Underwater Multi-Human-Robot Collaboration
Published in International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2022
A method for recognizing robotic gestures with another robot, for inter-robot communication via motion. Read more
Underwater Robot-To-Human Communication Via Motion: Implementation and Full-Loop Human Interface Evaluation
Published in Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2022, 2022
An evaluation of motion, light, and sound for underwater robot communication. Read more
Using Monocular Vision and Human Body Priors for AUVs to Autonmously Approach Divers
Published in International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2022
A method which allows AUVs to approach divers using only monocular vision. Read more
Towards Robust Visual Diver Detection Onboard Autonomous Underwater Robots: Assessing the Effects of Models and Data
Published in IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2021
A new dataset for diver detection (100k images) in video contexts, with evaluations of a variety of deep detectors on the diver detection task. Read more
Predicting the Future Motion of Divers for Enhanced Underwater Human-Robot Collaboration
Published in IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2021
A method for predicting the future motion of divers using LSTMs. Read more
Robot Communication Via Motion: A Study on Modalities for Robot-to-Human Communication in the Field
Published in ACM Transactions on Human Robot Interaction, 2021
Three studies evaluating a motion-based communication method for AUVs in simulation, in a full-loop context, and compared to other communication systems in a variety of phsyical orientations. Read more
Design and experiments with LoCO AUV: A low cost open-source autonomous underwater vehicle
Published in IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020
A low-cost, open-source AUV for multipurpose use in underwater research, education, etc. Read more
A Generative Approach Towards Improved Robotic Detection of Marine Litter
Published in IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2020
A method for generating synthetic images of underwater trash, improving detector performance by providing more examples. Read more
Robotic detection of marine litter using deep visual detection models
Published in International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2019
One of the first annotated datasets of trash, and an evaluation of four deep detectors trained on that dataset. Read more
Robot Communication Via Motion: Closing the Underwater Human-Robot Interaction Loop
Published in International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2019
A motion-based robot-to-human communication method: a sort of robot body language. Read more
Toward a Generic Diver-Following Algorithm: Balancing Robustness and Efficiency in Deep Visual Detection
Published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2019
A deep learning based diver detection method and a diver following algorithm for AUVs. Read more