Lorena Maria Genua — Papers on Cortexa

arxivcs.RO2026-07-15

Layered Risk Mapping for Autonomous Patient Transport in Expeditionary Medical Facilities

Lorena Maria Genua, Sarvesh Prajapati, Damla Leblebicioglu, Taşkın Padır

In expeditionary medical facilities, routine patient transport imposes a compounding burden of personal protective equipment consumption, staff diversion, and elevated infection risk that becomes unsustainable under surge conditions. While autonomous wheelchairs could absorb this…

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arxivcs.RO2026-07-06

Socially-Aware Autonomous Doorway Traversal and Payload Delivery for Emergency Assistance

Andrew Snowdy, Ananya Trivedi, Sarvesh Prajapati, Lorena Maria Genua, Taskin Padir

In this work, we focus on the scenario of a robot-assisted emergency evacuation. We consider two capabilities relevant to such a setting. The first is opening doors ahead of the people being evacuated, so that their path toward an exit stays clear. The second is retrieving rescue…

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