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TriSaFe-Trans is a safety-aware multimodal intent recognition pipeline for assistive robotics, developed in the Mecharithm Lab at Saint Louis University.
The paper fuses EEG (brain), EMG (muscle), and eye-tracking signals through a lightweight tri-modal transformer with reliability-gated attention, then applies a safety policy layer that decides whether the robot should act. The pipeline is demonstrated on a Kinova Gen3 arm performing five everyday tasks: reaching for a clock, picking up a dropped bottle, toggling a fan, adjusting a plant, and waving.
Accepted for oral presentation at BioRob 2026, Edmonton.
📄 Code: https://github.com/madibabaiasl/SafeIntentDetectionPaper
📚 Wiki: https://github.com/madibabaiasl/SafeIntentDetectionPaper/wiki
Authors: Tipu Sultan, Kody Cool, Guangping Liu, Gajapriya Tamilselvan, and Madi Babaiasl
Supported by SLU’s Research Institute, the Clare Boothe Luce Foundation, and SLU’s AEME Department.
05/09/2026
What better way to wrap up the semester and finals week than with a lab cookout? Lots of food and games!
05/08/2026
The Mecharithm lab represented their work at the NSF M3X PI meeting, presenting ongoing research and engaging with other researchers across the program.
People in the photo:
- Guangping Liu, PhD student
- Dr. Madi, CBL assistant professor of robotics, SLU
- Dr. Nadia Figueroa, Assistant Professor , UPenn
- Dr. Maria Kyrarini, Assistant Professor, SCU
04/26/2026
Mecharithm Lab well represented at !
Tipu delivered an excellent poster pitch, while Guangping and Nick presented their accepted paper. It was a great opportunity to share our work, connect with the medical robotics research community, and celebrate the team’s hard work.
Thank you to the Henry Luce Foundation Inc, NSF, and Saint Louis University Research Institute for supporting this research.
Thank you also to our collaborators in this project, Dr. Flavio Esposito and his students.
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