Publications

Developing Production-Grade Applications with ROS 2

Published in Robot Operating System (ROS) The Complete Reference, 2021

A recurring concern for robotics application is how to scale from being a research product, into a production system. Developers need to compile their software for the chosen embedded platform, write tests for their code, and build infrastructure to support engineering best practices, such as Continuous Integration, and Delivery (CI/CD). This chapter introduces the reader to ROS packages, and tools which can be leveraged to build solid, commercial-grade, systems based on ROS 2.

Recommended citation: A. A. Allaban, D. Bonnie, E. Knapp, P. Gokhale and T. Moulard, "Developing Production-Grade Applications with ROS 2" to appear in Robot Operating System (ROS) The Complete Reference, 1st ed., Vol. 6, A. Koubaa, Ed., Switzerland: Springer International Publishing AG 2021

A Systematic Review of Robotics Research in Support of In-Home Care for Older Adults

Published in MDPI Information, 2020

The aging population is growing at an unprecedented rate globally and robotics-enabled solutions are being developed to provide better independent living for older adults. In this study, we report the results from a systematic review of the state-of-the-art in home robotics research for caring for older adults.

Recommended citation: Abou Allaban, A.; Wang, M.; Padır, T. A Systematic Review of Robotics Research in Support of In-Home Care for Older Adults. Information 2020, 11, 75. https://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/11/2/75

A Blended Human-Robot Shared Control Framework to Handle Drift and Latency

Published in IEEE Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics, 2019

Investigating a shared control framework for maximizing the utility of human-robot teams in disaster response and search and rescue missions.

Recommended citation: A. A. Allaban, V. Dimitrov and T. Padır, "A Blended Human-Robot Shared Control Framework to Handle Drift and Latency," 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), Würzburg, Germany, 2019, pp. 81-87, doi: 10.1109/SSRR.2019.8848977. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8848977

System Architecture for Autonomous Mobile Manipulation of Everyday Objects in Domestic Environments

Published in PETRA: Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, 2019

In this work, we focus on developing a complete system for autonomous mobile manipulation.

Recommended citation: Tarik Keleştemur, Naoki Yokoyama, Joanne Truong, Anas Abou Allaban, and Taşkin Padir. 2019. System architecture for autonomous mobile manipulation of everyday objects in domestic environments. In Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA 19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 264–269. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3316782.3316797 https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3316782.3316797