The state of industrial robotics: Emerging technologies, challenges, and key research directions

L Sanneman, C Fourie, JA Shah - Foundations and Trends® …, 2021 - nowpublishers.com
Robotics and related technologies are central to the ongoing digitization and advancement
of manufacturing. In recent years, a variety of strategic initiatives around the world including …

Hamlet: A hierarchical multimodal attention-based human activity recognition algorithm

MM Islam, T Iqbal - 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To fluently collaborate with people, robots need the ability to recognize human activities
accurately. Although modern robots are equipped with various sensors, robust human …

Multi-gat: A graphical attention-based hierarchical multimodal representation learning approach for human activity recognition

MM Islam, T Iqbal - IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recognizing human activities is one of the crucial capabilities that a robot needs to have to
be useful around people. Although modern robots are equipped with various types of …

Mumu: Cooperative multitask learning-based guided multimodal fusion

MM Islam, T Iqbal - Proceedings of the AAAI conference on artificial …, 2022 - ojs.aaai.org
Multimodal sensors (visual, non-visual, and wearable) can provide complementary
information to develop robust perception systems for recognizing activities accurately …

Fast and unsupervised action boundary detection for action segmentation

Z Du, X Wang, G Zhou, Q Wang - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2022 - openaccess.thecvf.com
To deal with the great number of untrimmed videos produced every day, we propose an
efficient unsupervised action segmentation method by detecting boundaries, named action …

Appld: Adaptive planner parameter learning from demonstration

X Xiao, B Liu, G Warnell, J Fink… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Existing autonomous robot navigation systems allow robots to move from one point to
another in a collision-free manner. However, when facing new environments, these systems …

Who's laughing nao? examining perceptions of failure in a humorous robot partner

HN Green, MM Islam, S Ali… - 2022 17th ACM/IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Social robots are being deployed to interact with people in various scenarios, where they
are expected to in-corporate human-like conversational strategies to achieve flu-ency in …

A scalable approach to predict multi-agent motion for human-robot collaboration

MS Yasar, T Iqbal - IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Human motion prediction is considered a key component for enabling fluent human-robot
collaboration. The ability to anticipate the motion and subsequent intent of the partner (s) …

An adaptive agent-specific sub-optimal bounding approach for multi-agent path finding

M Rahman, MA Alam, MM Islam, I Rahman… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) problem involves multiple agents who want to reach their
destinations without obstructing other agents. Although a MAPF problem needs to be solved …

PoseTron: Enabling Close-Proximity Human-Robot Collaboration Through Multi-human Motion Prediction

MS Yasar, MM Islam, T Iqbal - Proceedings of the 2024 ACM/IEEE …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
As robots enter human workspaces, there is a crucial need for robots to understand and
predict human motion to achieve safe and fluent human-robot collaboration (HRC) …