📰In our new IEEE RA-L paper (also to appear @ieeeiros), led by my fantastic PhD student, Jeeho Ahn, we introduce ReloPush-BOSS, a planning framework for rearranging cluttered workspaces using a mobile robot pusher.
project page: fluentrobotics.com/relopushb…
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Our #HRI2026 late-breaking report looks at how to generate legible robot motion in pedestrian environments, specifically focusing on 2 Qs:
🔸what should a robot be legible over?
🔸how does human distraction impact the benefits of legibility?
@fluentrobotics@UMRobotics
Excited to share our #HRI2026 paper! 🎉
Over the past two years, my @fluentrobotics lab @UMRobotics & the group of Rachid Alami (LAAS Toulouse) ran an ambitious project to study the implications of human motion prediction fidelity for downstream MPC navigation performance
We started "Robo Reflections" 💭 the new #HRI group @UMRobotics. It's like a reading group, but better - we engage in critical discussions beyond the readings of a single paper 🩶
Co-organized: @longjinghsu, @masterson_a, @mavrojean, @lionelrobertjr, leia stirling
Rearrangement planning for embodied pixel art!
For the Arts in Robotics Session @ieee_ras_icra, we will demonstrate how our ReloPush planning framework (fluentrobotics.com/pdfs/ahn2…) enables a mobile robot to produce room-scale pixel art by pushing a set of cubic pixels. #ICRA2025
Our demonstration involves a cycle between the formation of the greek letters Α and Ω, representing respectively an infinite loop between the beginning and the end ♾️.
How can we enable constrained robots to rearrange cluttered, unstructured spaces?
In our #ICRA2025 paper, we present ReloPush, a planning framework that enables car-like robots to rearrange dense clutter using only pushing, commodity hardware, and no workspace engineering!