A risk-averse optimization approach to human-robot collaboration in robotic fruit harvesting

MW Rysz, SS Mehta - Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 2021‏ - Elsevier
The marketability and adoption of robotic systems in agriculture is largely limited by
economic and technology barriers that prevent highly efficient autonomous operations at a …

Collaborative human-autonomy semantic sensing through structured POMDP planning

L Burks, N Ahmed, I Loefgren, L Barbier… - Robotics and …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Autonomous unmanned systems and robots must be able to actively leverage all available
information sources—including imprecise but readily available semantic observations …

Structured synthesis and compression of semantic human sensor models for Bayesian estimation

N Sweet, N Ahmed - 2016 American Control Conference (ACC), 2016‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider the problem of fusing human-generated semanticsoft sensor'data with
conventionalhard sensor'data to augment Bayesian state estimators. This requires modeling …

Human-assisted RRT for path planning in urban environments

SS Mehta, C Ton, MJ McCourt, Z Kan… - … on Systems, Man …, 2015‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A human-RRT (Rapidly-exploring Random Tree) collaborative algorithm is presented for
path planning in urban environments. The well-known RRT algorithm is modified for efficient …

Fully Bayesian human–machine data fusion for robust online dynamic target characterization

J Muesing, N Ahmed, L Burks, M Iuzzolino… - Journal of Aerospace …, 2021‏ - arc.aiaa.org
This work examines the problem of fusing human operator observations with probabilistic
information extracted by an automated data fusion system, in the context of dynamic …

Fully bayesian human-machine data fusion for robust dynamic target surveillance and characterization

J Muesing, L Burks, M Iuzzolino, D Szafir… - AIAA Scitech 2019 …, 2019‏ - arc.aiaa.org
This work examines the problem of rigorously characterizing and fusing observations
provided by human operators with probabilistic information extracted by an automated data …

Probabilistic semantic data association for collaborative human-robot sensing

S Wakayama, N Ahmed - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2023‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Humans cannot always be treated as oracles for collaborative sensing. Robots, thus, need
to maintain beliefs over unknown world states when receiving semantic data from humans …

Human-machine teaming for effective estimation and path planning

MJ McCourt, SS Mehta, EA Doucette… - … Sensors, Systems, and …, 2016‏ - spiedigitallibrary.org
While traditional sensors provide accurate measurements of quantifiable information,
humans provide better qualitative information and holistic assessments. Sensor fusion …

Interactive Inference for Autonomous Robotic Exploration of Uncertain Remote Environments

S Wakayama - 2024‏ - search.proquest.com
Robotic search and exploration in uncertain remote environments (eg outer planets and
undersea) at present requires teams of engineers and scientists to directly manipulate …

Active Collaborative Planning and Sensing in Human-Robot Teams

CL Burks - 2020‏ - search.proquest.com
As they become increasing capable, autonomous robots can further benefit from human-
provided semantic characterizations of uncertain task environments and states. However …