Proximity perception in human-centered robotics: A survey on sensing systems and applications

SE Navarro, S Mühlbacher-Karrer… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Proximity perception is a technology that has the potential to play an essential role in the
future of robotics. It can fulfill the promise of safe, robust, and autonomous systems in …

Millipcd: Beyond traditional vision indoor point cloud generation via handheld millimeter-wave devices

P Cai, S Sur - Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
3D Point Cloud Data (PCD) has been used in many research and commercial applications
widely, such as autonomous driving, robotics, and VR/AR. But existing PCD generation …

WiMeasure: Millimeter-level Object Size Measurement with Commodity WiFi Devices

X Wang, K Niu, A Yu, J **ong, Z Yao, J Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
In the past few years, a large range of wireless signals such as WiFi, RFID, UWB and
Millimeter Wave were utilized for sensing purposes. Among these wireless sensing …

Synthetic aperture radar with dynamic metasurface antennas: a conceptual development

M Boyarsky, T Sleasman, L Pulido-Mancera… - JOSA A, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We investigate the application of dynamic metasurface antennas (DMAs) to synthetic
aperture radar (SAR) systems. Metasurface antennas can generate a multitude of tailored …

High resolution point clouds from mmwave radar

A Prabhakara, T **, A Das, G Bhatt… - … on Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper explores a machine learning approach on data from a single-chip mmWave
radar for generating high resolution point clouds–a key sensing primitive for robotic …

Orthogonal coded active illumination for millimeter wave, massive-MIMO computational imaging with metasurface antennas

A Pedross-Engel, D Arnitz, JN Gollub… - IEEE Transactions …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Emerging metasurface antenna technology enables flexible and low cost massive multiple-
input multiple-output (MIMO) millimeter-wave (mmW) imaging for applications such as …

Radar sensors in collaborative robotics: Fast simulation and experimental validation

C Stetco, B Ubezio… - … on Robotics and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the availability of small system in package realizations, radar systems become more
and more attractive for a variety of applications in robotics, in particular also for collaborative …

Exploring mmWave Radar and Camera Fusion for High-Resolution and Long-Range Depth Imaging

A Prabhakara, D Zhang, C Li, S Munir… - 2022 IEEE/RSJ …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robotic geo-fencing and surveillance systems require accurate monitoring of objects if/when
they violate perimeter restrictions. In this paper, we seek a solution for depth imaging of such …

Precise 2D and 3D Fluoroscopic Imaging by Using an FMCW Millimeter-Wave Radar

Y Wang, J Su, T Fukuda, M Tonouchi… - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This study utilized a multiple-input multiple-output synthetic aperture radar (MIMO-SAR)
technology employing a frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) millimeter-wave …

Safe and socially compliant robot navigation in crowds with fast-moving pedestrians via deep reinforcement learning

Z Feng, B Xue, C Wang, F Zhou - Robotica, 2024 - cambridge.org
Safe and socially compliant navigation in a crowded environment is essential for social
robots. Numerous research efforts have shown the advantages of deep reinforcement …