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Designing a Resilience Hub for Vulnerable Populations in Las Carolinas, Puerto Rico
No full textGovernment agencies have been slow to respond and support Puerto Rican communities' post-disaster. The Centro de Apoyo Mutuo (CAM) in rural Las Carolinas is a mutual aid center based in a repurposed school that aims to increase community resilience and disaster preparedness for their community. Our project supported CAM Las Carolinas’ resilience efforts by developing a disaster preparedness mobilization system that documented household-level assets and risks to improve post-disaster response effectiveness. The system was informed by interviews with 42 las Carolinas residents, 4 community leaders, and 6 other mutual aid centers. We created a database and mapping system to locate at-risk community members and provided the CAM with recommendations to build long-term resilience
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TORI: Tour-Optimized Robotic Intelligence
No full textTori is an intelligent robotic agent designed to be an autonomous tour guide robot of WPI’s Unity Hall. Using its multi-modal sensing and advanced reasoning capabilities, Tori enhances WPI visitor engagement by guiding users to their desired destinations in Unity Hall on request. The navigation system dynamically adjusts the robot’s path to avoid obstacles and plan safe routes. A voice command system and touchscreen GUI allow for seamless and engaging human-robot interaction methods. In addition, an on-board Large Language Model (LLM) allows users to ask Tori for information about WPI’s campus or programs and receive accurate and informative responses. Tori traverses all five floors of Unity Hall, complete with custom-trained vision pipelines to allow her to use the elevators
