Personal Robotics Laboratory

Excited to share our latest work "ASFM: Augmented Social Force Model for Legged Robot Social Navigation" at the IEEE RAS HUMANOIDS Conference this week! 🎉 This research, led by Sebastian Aegidius as part of his Master’s thesis at the Personal Robotics Laboratory (Imperial College London), was done in collaboration with the Robot Perception and Learning Laboratory (UCL). Our paper tackles the challenging task of enabling seamless social navigation in human-populated environments. We’ve developed an Augmented Social Force Model (#ASFM) for legged robots, leveraging visual perception to improve human localization and interaction. By refining repulsive forces and pedestrian avoidance behaviors, our model helps quadrupeds navigate complex scenarios—sidestepping oncoming pedestrians, weaving through static crowds, and following a guide through obstructed paths. Real-world experiments showed significant improvements in path efficiency, speed, and human-robot interaction, pushing us closer to robots that integrate naturally into pedestrian spaces. 🚶♂️🤖 Prof. Yiannis Demiris is looking forward to discussing this further at the conference! #Robotics #AI #SocialNavigation #HumanoidsConference #Innovation #QuadrupedRobots https://lnkd.in/ekpU3cU8

#IROS24 - Want to learn how we get robots to clean people? Check-in tomorrow at 11:15-11:30 UAE in Room 12(ThBT12.2) for Yijun Gu's presentation "Learning Bimanual Manipulation Policies for Bathing Bed-bound People" Link: https://lnkd.in/dj9wDbxf

Well done Haining Luo! Great work. Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London Imperial Robotics Forum

Big congratulations to this year's cohort of #MSc #Applied #Machine #Learning students at the Personal Robotics Laboratory, who just wrapped up their poster presentations! I'm thrilled to see the amazing projects you've all been working on. Huge shutouts to Allyson Burba for pushing the boundaries of #social #navigation in intelligent #robot #wheelchairs, and Mauro Marino for exploring new ways to determine #Robot #Affordance using #Large #Language #Models. Keep up the fantastic work!

Well done Sebastian Aegidius!

Excited to be at IEEE RO-MAN 24! 🎉 Today marks the beginning of the conference, and I’m thrilled to be part of it. I’ll be presenting on Wednesday, August 28th at 14:40 during the Design of Robots III session in Room H. Join me to learn about #AR #Multi-#User #Interfaces, #Shared #Mental #Models and their effect on #Human-#Robot #Trust analised using #CLMMs. Looking forward to sharing my work with the robotics community! #ROMAN24 #Robotics #Research

I'm excited to be presenting our paper "On the Effect of #Augmented-#Reality #Multi-#User #Interfaces and #Shared #Mental #Models on #Human-#Robot #Trust" at The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (IEEE RO-MAN 2024) in Pasadena next week. In the paper, we describe an innovative #AR multi-user interface we developed to study #non-#dyadic human-robot interactions using #Bayesian #Cumulative #Link #Mixture #Models (#CLMM). If you're attending the conference, I look forward to sharing more insights with you! This research was supported by UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS) Hub node on #Trust. #HRI #Robotics #AugmentedReality #HumanRobotInteraction #Trust #ROMAN2024 Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London - Personal Robotics Laboratory Watch the video and learn more about our findings:

We're incredibly proud of our lab director for being awarded the 2024 Imperial College London President's Award for #Excellence in #Education for #Research #Supervision! A huge thank you to all our alumni and current members who contributed to this achievement with their kind words and support. #proudlab #researchsupervision Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London

Exciting day at the Personal Robotics Laboratory! 🤖 We had the pleasure of hosting a group of students from Beihang University. They were fascinated by our demos on #manipulating #deformable #objects, #multimodal #perception, #affordance-based #mixed #reality #user #interfaces, and #robot #assisted #cooking. Their enthusiasm was contagious! We could have easily spent the entire afternoon sharing knowledge and ideas. Looking forward to future collaborations and inspiring the next generation of robotics engineers! #robotics #research #BeihangUniversity #personalrobotics #futureoftech Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London

New paper: how can robots efficiently learn from experience what they're capable of? How does that affect the trust we place in them? Link: https://lnkd.in/d6b6RHdF Open access: https://lnkd.in/dmqhFeyS Huge thanks to Yiannis Demiris, Rodrigo Chacón Quesada, Dimitra Tsakona, Nico L. and everyone in the Personal Robotics Laboratory for their support. Thank you also to all the participants who took the time to come to the lab and cook with our robot!