Projects

Research projects in Robotics (perception, planning, and control) and HRI for assistive technology.

Assistive Robotics for the Blind & Low-Vision People

GuideNav: Vision-Only Long-Range Route Following — Robust visual teach-and-repeat for kilometer-scale route following using only images.

GuideData: Handler-Guide Dog Interaction Dataset — A dataset capturing interactions between handlers and guide dogs for guide dog robot design implications.

GuideTWSI: Stopping at Tactile Pavings — Synthetic TWSI data generation for tactile paving segmentation and stopping.

Quiet and Stable Locomotion Control — Stable and low-noise locomotion controller for quiet walking and smooth stair climbing.

System Integration & Obstacle Avoidance — Guide dog robot configuration and semantics-aware local path planning.

The Synthetic Tactile-on-Paving (SToP) Dataset — Unreal Engine-based synthetic data augmentation for tactile paving detection.

Competitions

CYBATHLON Vision Assistance Race 2023 — Solving real-world problems for blind and low-vision people.

Other Research

Event Cameras for Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance — Highly dynamic obstacle detection using event cameras.

ElderSim — A synthetic data generation platform for human action recognition in eldercare applications.