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 ics-engineering-masters-thesis-presentation-divam-trivedi
Robotics Engineering Master\'s Thesis Presentation - Divam Trivedi
Autonomous Perception for Bi-Manual Mobile Manipulator Nursing Robots\n\n\n\n      \n      \n\n\n\nAbstract:
  My presentation focuses on autonomous perception for mobile manipulator n
 ursing robots in indoor healthcare environments. It presents a system that
  combines three main capabilities: goal-directed navigation using visual S
 LAM, human action recognition for safe interaction, and marker-less object
  manipulation with human-in-the-loop control. The robot is designed to nav
 igate hospital-like settings, detect and respond appropriately to human ac
 tivities, and perform pick-and-place tasks for 18 common medical and food 
 items, including shelf organization. I also discuss the system architectur
 e, perception pipeline, and experimental evaluation. The results demonstra
 te improved navigation reliability, interaction safety, and manipulation p
 erformance, highlighting the feasibility of deploying assistive robots in 
 real-world nursing scenarios.\nAdvisor: Professor Jane LiCommittee: Profes
 sor Constantinos Chamzas, Professor Fiona Yuan\nZoom Link: https://wpi.zoo
 m.us/j/93426165210\n
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