The Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering is pleased to announce an upcoming Master of Science in Sustainable Design Engineering (MSc-SDE) thesis defense on Friday, December 2, 2022.

Presenter: Hamed Bozorgi

Title: "FROM SOCIAL PERCEPTION TO SHARED CONTROL ON A MOBILE ROBOT: FUSION, INTEGRATION, AND FILTERING"

Social perception and safe navigation are the main requirements for deploying a mobile robot in a human-populated environment and turning it into a human-aware mobile robot. To date, we are still lacking social perception and reasoning systems capable of dealing with various human intentions and behaviors in human-populated environments. The primary objective of this thesis is to develop a novel, reliable, real-time social perception system for real-life dynamic environments by integrating solutions of learning-based and model-based techniques. Our secondary goal is to extend the social perception toward robot navigation and control by developing a shared autonomy framework allowing the user to encode social preferences into the autonomous control of the robotic system. To achieve these goals, four sub-objectives were identified and will be reviewed in this defense.

If you wish to attend the public presentation, please contact Lisa Sanderson to receive the link.