Papers
10
Total Citations
129
H-Index
4
About
David L. McPherson is a robotics researcher whose work centers on human-robot interaction, assistive navigation, and safe autonomous systems. His most impactful contribution is the development of intention-aware robot navigation in dense crowds, introducing an attention-based interaction graph that enables robots to anticipate and respond to human movements—a paper that has garnered 76 citations. McPherson also pioneered DRAGON, a dialogue-based assistive navigation system that uses visual-language grounding to help persons with visual impairments understand and navigate their environments, representing a significant advance in accessible robotics. His research extends to constraint inference for safe robot behavior, proactive anomaly detection in field robots, and improving human-robot teaming through supervisor modeling. McPherson’s work on drone mission planning in virtual reality and educational tools like BasketBallBot demonstrates his commitment to both practical applications and pedagogy. With a growing citation record and contributions spanning crowd navigation, assistive technology, and human-robot collaboration, McPherson is establishing himself as a researcher dedicated to making robots more perceptive, communicative, and safe in real-world settings.
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Top Papers
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- 3Usability Evaluation for Drone Mission Planning in Virtual Reality17 citations · 2018
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- 5Maximum Likelihood Constraint Inference on Continuous State Spaces3 citations · 2022
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- 8Team-Based Robot Righting via Pushing and Shell Design2 citations · 2019
- 9Learning Visual-Audio Representations for Voice-Controlled Robots2 citations · 2023
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