ICRA2020文章目录


ICRA2020-paper-list

Welcome to ICRA 2020, the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.

ICRA is the largest robotics meeting in the world and is the flagship conference of the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society. It is thus our honor and pleasure to welcome you to this edition, although the current exceptional circumstances did not allow us to organize it with the glimpse and splendor that our wonderful robotics community deserves.

ICRA 2020 received 3,512 submissions, a new record, from 64 countries and 14,665 authors. Overall, 3,446 papers were reviewed. The 10 most popular keywords, in descending order, were: Deep Learning in Robotics and Automation, Motion and Path Planning, Localization, Learning and Adaptive Systems, Autonomous Vehicle Navigation, Multi-Robot Systems, SLAM, Object Detection, Segmentation and Categorization, and Visual-Based Navigation.

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Categories

  • Awards I: Service Robots; Medical Robotics
  • Awards II: Robot Mechanisms and Design; Automation
  • Awards III: Human-Robot Interaction (HRI); Multi-Robot Systems
  • Awards IV: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles; Robot Vision
  • Awards V: Robot Manipulation; Cognitive Robotics
  • Awards VI: Best Student Paper Award; Best Conference Paper Award
  • SLAM
  • Deep Learning in Robotics and Automation
  • Motion and Path Planning
  • Aerial Systems: Mechanics and Control
  • Autonomous Driving
  • Localization
  • Learning from Demonstration- Medical Robots and Systems
  • Legged Robots- Multi-Robot Systems
  • Modeling, Control, and Learning for Soft Robots
  • Manipulation
  • Sensor Fusion
  • Compliance and Impedance Control
  • Visual Learning
  • Soft Sensors and Actuators
  • Wearable Robots
  • Cognitive Human-Robot Interaction
  • Robotics in Agriculture and Forestry
  • Calibration and Identification
  • Industrial Robots
  • Biomimetics
  • Robust/Adaptive Control of Robotic Systems
  • Space Robotics and Automation
  • Perception for Grasping and Manipulation
  • Humanoid Robots
  • Force Control
  • Semantic Scene Understanding
  • Social Human-Robot Interaction
  • Biologically-Inspired Robots- Robotics in Agriculture, Construction and Mining
  • Kinematics
  • Robot Safety
  • Swarms
  • Simulation and Animation
  • Reinforcement Learning for Robotics
  • Manipulation Planning
  • Contact Modeling
  • Robotics in Hazardous Fields
  • Dynamics
  • Product Design, Development and Prototyping
  • Cellular and Modular Robots
  • Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking
  • Aerial Systems: Applications
  • Learning and Adaptive Systems
  • Surgical Robotics: Laparascopy I
  • Surgical Robotics: Laparoscopy II
  • Surgical Robotics: Steerable Catheters/Needles
  • Path Planning for Multiple Mobile Robots or Agents
  • Optimization and Optimal Control
  • Grasping
  • Omnidirectional Vision
  • Force and Tactile Sensing- Visual-Based Navigation
  • Soft Robot Applications
  • Prosthetics and Exoskeletons
  • Human-Centered Robotics
  • Mechanism Design
  • Marine Robotics
  • Compliant Joint/Mechanism
  • Search and Rescue Robots
  • Human Detection and Tracking
  • Omnidirectional Vision and Audition
  • Hydraulic/Pneumatic Actuators
  • Service Robots
  • Robot Perception
  • Distributed Robot Systems
  • Range Sensing
  • Transfer Learning
  • Flexible Robots
  • Field and Space Robots
  • Recognition
  • Aerial Systems: Multi-Robots
  • Biological Cell Manipulation
  • Cooperating Robots
  • RGB-D Perception
  • Task Planning
  • Brain-Machine Interfaces
  • Tendon/Wire Mechanism
  • Agricultural Automation
  • Underactuated Robots
  • Applications- Robust and Sensor-Based Control
  • Object Detection, Segmentation and Categorization- Aerial Systems: Perception and Autonomy
  • Autonomous Vehicle Navigation
  • Mapping- Computer Vision for Other Robotic Applications
  • Humanoid and Bipedal Locomotion
  • Motion Control
  • Dexterous Manipulation
  • Computer Vision for Automation and Manufacturing
  • Visual Servoing
  • Soft Robot Materials and Design- Rehabilitation Robotics
  • Physical Human-Robot Interaction- Telerobotics and Teleoperation
  • Collision Avoidance
  • Micro/Nano Robots
  • AI-Based Methods
  • Climbing Robots
  • Failure Detection and Recovery
  • Learning to Predict
  • Learning for Motion Planning- Motion Control of Manipulators- Computer Vision for Medical Robots
  • Grippers and Other End-Effectors
  • Formal Methods in Robotics and Automation
  • Parallel Robots
  • Mechanism and Verification
  • Model Learning for Control
  • Mobile Manipulation
  • Computer Vision for Transportation
  • Haptics and Haptic Interfaces
  • Visual Tracking
  • Planning, Scheduling and Coordination
  • Reactive and Sensor-Based Planning

Awards I: Service Robots; Medical Robotics

  • Online Trajectory Planning through Combined Trajectory Optimization and Function Approximation: Application to the Exoskeleton Atalante
  • Human-Centric Active Perception for Autonomous Observation
  • Active Reward Learning for Co-Robotic Vision Based Exploration in Bandwidth Limited Environments
  • Fault Tolerant Control in Shape-Changing Internal Robots
  • Swing-Assist for Enhancing Stair Ambulation in a Primarily-Passive Knee Prosthesis
  • A Multilayer-Multimodal Fusion Architecture for Pattern Recognition of Natural Manipulations in Percutaneous Coronary Interventions

Awards II: Robot Mechanisms and Design; Automation

  • Design of a Roller-Based Dexterous Hand for Object Grasping and Within-Hand Manipulation
  • Swing-Assist for Enhancing Stair Ambulation in a Primarily-Passive Knee Prosthesis
  • Asynchronous and Decoupled Control of the Position and the Stiffness of a Spatial RCM Tensegrity Mechanism for Needle Manipulation
  • Form2Fit: Learning Shape Priors for Generalizable Assembly from Disassembly
  • Deep Visual Heuristics: Learning Feasibility of Mixed-Integer Programs for Manipulation Planning
  • Securing Industrial Operators with Collaborative Robots: Simulation and Experimental Validation for a Carpentry Task

Awards III: Human-Robot Interaction (HRI); Multi-Robot Systems

  • Preference-Based Learning for Exoskeleton Gait Optimization
  • Perception-Action Coupling in Usage of Telepresence Cameras
  • Human Interface for Teleoperated Object Manipulation with a Soft Growing Robot
  • Efficient Large-Scale Multi-Drone Delivery Using Transit Networks
  • Efficient Multi-Agent Trajectory Planning with Feasibility Guarantee Using Relative Bernstein Polynomial
  • Scalable Target-Tracking for Autonomous Vehicle Fleets

Awards IV: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles; Robot Vision

  • Design and Autonomous Stabilization of a Ballistically Launched Multirotor
  • A Morphable Aerial-Aquatic Quadrotor with Coupled Symmetric Thrust Vectoring
  • Nonlinear Vector-Projection Control for Agile Fixed-Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • OmniSLAM: Omnidirectional Localization and Dense Mapping for Wide-Baseline Multi-Camera Systems
  • Metrically-Scaled Monocular SLAM Using Learned Scale Factors
  • Graduated Non-Convexity for Robust Spatial Perception: From Non-Minimal Solvers to Global Outlier Rejection

Awards V: Robot Manipulation; Cognitive Robotics

  • 6-DOF Grasping for Target-Driven Object Manipulation in Clutter
  • Tactile Dexterity: Manipulation Primitives with Tactile Feedback
  • Design of a Roller-Based Dexterous Hand for Object Grasping and Within-Hand Manipulation
  • Semantic Linking Maps for Active Visual Object Search
  • Adversarial Skill Networks: Unsupervised Robot Skill Learning from Video
  • Transient Behavior and Predictability in Manipulating Complex Objects

Awards VI: Best Student Paper Award; Best Conference Paper Award

  • Design of a Roller-Based Dexterous Hand for Object Grasping and Within-Hand Manipulation
  • An ERT-Based Robotic Skin with Sparsely Distributed Electrodes: Structure, Fabrication, and DNN-Based Signal Processing
  • 6-DOF Grasping for Target-Driven Object Manipulation in Clutter
  • Preference-Based Learning for Exoskeleton Gait Optimization
  • Design of a Roller-Based Dexterous Hand for Object Grasping and Within-Hand Manipulation
  • Prediction of Human Full-Body Movements with Motion Optimization and Recurrent Neural Networks

SLAM

  • Real-Time Graph-Based SLAM with Occupancy Normal Distributions Transforms
  • Spatio-Temporal Non-Rigid Registration of 3D Point Clouds of Plants
  • Uncertainty-Based Adaptive Sensor Fusion for Visual-Inertial Odometry under Various Motion Characteristics
  • Loam_livox: A Fast, Robust, High-Precision LiDAR Odometry and Mapping Package for LiDARs of Small FoV
  • Active SLAM Using 3D Submap Saliency for Underwater Volumetric Exploration
  • Are We Ready for Service Robots? the OpenLORIS-Scene Datasets for Lifelong SLAM
  • Intensity Scan Context: Coding Intensity and Geometry Relations for Loop Closure Detection
  • TextSLAM: Visual SLAM with Planar Text Features
  • FlowNorm: A Learning-Based Method for Increasing Convergence Range of Direct Alignment
  • Redesigning SLAM for Arbitrary Multi-Camera Systems
  • Dynamic SLAM: The Need for Speed
  • GradSLAM: Dense SLAM Meets Automatic Differentiation
  • Long-Term Place Recognition through Worst-Case Graph Matching to Integrate Landmark Appearances and Spatial Relationships
  • Linear RGB-D SLAM for Atlanta World
  • Stereo Visual Inertial Odometry with Online Baseline Calibration
  • Lidar-Monocular Visual Odometry Using Point and Line Features
  • Probabilistic Data Association Via Mixture Models for Robust Semantic SLAM
  • Closed-Loop Benchmarking of Stereo Visual-Inertial SLAM Systems: Understanding the Impact of Drift and Latency on Tracking Accuracy
  • Metrically-Scaled Monocular SLAM Using Learned Scale Factors
  • Inertial-Only Optimization for Visual-Inertial Initialization
  • Hierarchical Quadtree Feature Optical Flow Tracking Based Sparse Pose-Graph Visual-Inertial SLAM
  • Keypoint Description by Descriptor Fusion Using Autoencoders
  • Towards Noise Resilient SLAM
  • LAMP: Large-Scale Autonomous Mapping and Positioning for Exploration of Perceptually-Degraded Subterranean Environments
  • Modeling Semi-Static Scenes with Persistence Filtering in Visual SLAM
  • Broadcast Your Weaknesses: Cooperative Active Pose-Graph SLAM for Multiple Robots
  • FlowFusion: Dynamic Dense RGB-D SLAM Based on Optical Flow
  • Efficient Algorithms for Maximum Consensus Robust Fitting (I)

  • MulRan: Multimodal Range Dataset for Urban Place Recognition

  • GPO: Global Plane Optimization for Fast and Accurate Monocular SLAM Initialization
  • Large-Scale Volumetric Scene Reconstruction Using LiDAR
  • Topological Mapping for Manhattan-Like Repetitive Environments
  • Structure-Aware COP-SLAM
  • Robust RGB-D Camera Tracking Using Optimal Key-Frame Selection
  • Voxgraph: Globally Consistent, Volumetric Mapping Using Signed Distance Function Submaps
  • DeepFactors: Real-Time Probabilistic Dense Monocular SLAM
  • DOOR-SLAM: Distributed, Online, and Outlier Resilient SLAM for Robotic Teams
  • Windowed Bundle Adjustment Framework for Unsupervised Learning of Monocular Depth Estimation with U-Net Extension and Clip Loss
  • StructVIO : Visual-Inertial Odometry with Structural Regularity of Man-Made Environments (I)

  • Flow-Motion and Depth Network for Monocular Stereo and Beyond

  • Online LiDAR-SLAM for Legged Robots with Robust Registration and Deep-Learned Loop Closure
  • Hybrid Camera Pose Estimation with Online Partitioning for SLAM
  • Analysis of Minima for Geodesic and Chordal Cost for a Minimal 2D Pose-Graph SLAM Problem
  • Voxel Map for Visual SLAM

Deep Learning in Robotics and Automation

  • Learning 3D-Aware Egocentric Spatial-Temporal Interaction Via Graph Convolutional Networks
  • C-3PO: Cyclic-Three-Phase Optimization for Human-Robot Motion Retargeting Based on Reinforcement Learning
  • AP-MTL: Attention Pruned Multi-Task Learning Model for Real-Time Instrument Detection and Segmentation in Robot-Assisted Surgery
  • Automatic Gesture Recognition in Robot-Assisted Surgery with Reinforcement Learning and Tree Search
  • Towards Privacy-Preserving Ego-Motion Estimation Using an Extremely Low-Resolution Camera
  • ACNN: A Full Resolution DCNN for Medical Image Segmentation
  • RoNIN: Robust Neural Inertial Navigation in the Wild: Benchmark, Evaluations, & New Methods
  • Segmenting 2K-Videos at 36.5 FPS with 24.3 GFLOPs: Accurate and Lightweight Realtime Semantic Segmentation Network
  • Temporally Consistent Horizon Lines
  • Full-Scale Continuous Synthetic Sonar Data Generation with Markov Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks
  • Real-Time Soft Body 3D Proprioception Via Deep Vision-Based Sensing
  • A General Framework for Uncertainty Estimation in Deep Learning
  • Learning Local Behavioral Sequences to Better Infer Non-Local Properties in Real Multi-Robot Systems
  • Unsupervised Geometry-Aware Deep LiDAR Odometry
  • SA-Net: Robust State-Action Recognition for Learning from Observations
  • A Generative Approach for Socially Compliant Navigation
  • Scalable Multi-Task Imitation Learning with Autonomous Improvement
  • Motion2Vec: Semi-Supervised Representation Learning from Surgical Videos
  • PointAtrousGraph: Deep Hierarchical Encoder-Decoder with Point Atrous Convolution for Unorganized 3D Points
  • Learning Error Models for Graph SLAM
  • SMArT: Training Shallow Memory-Aware Transformers for Robotic Explainability
  • A 3D-Deep-Learning-Based Augmented Reality Calibration Method for Robotic Environments Using Depth Sensor Data
  • Adversarial Feature Training for Generalizable Robotic Visuomotor Control
  • Efficient Bimanual Manipulation Using Learned Task Schemas
  • BayesOD: A Bayesian Approach for Uncertainty Estimation in Deep Object Detectors
  • Learning Object Placements for Relational Instructions by Hallucinating Scene Representations
  • FADNet: A Fast and Accurate Network for Disparity Estimation
  • Training Adversarial Agents to Exploit Weaknesses in Deep Control Policies
  • TRASS: Time Reversal As Self-Supervision
  • Federated Imitation Learning: A Novel Framework for Cloud Robotic Systems with Heterogeneous Sensor Data
  • Uncertainty Quantification with Statistical Guarantees in End-To-End Autonomous Driving Control
  • Autonomously Navigating a Surgical Tool Inside the Eye by Learning from Demonstration
  • Learn-To-Recover: Retrofitting UAVs with Reinforcement Learning-Assisted Flight Control under Cyber-Physical Attacks
  • Model-Based Reinforcement Learning for Physical Systems without Velocity and Acceleration Measurements
  • Towards the Probabilistic Fusion of Learned Priors into Standard Pipelines for 3D Reconstruction
  • Learning Natural Locomotion Behaviors for Humanoid Robots Using Human Bias
  • Aggressive Online Control of a Quadrotor Via Deep Network Representations of Optimality Principles
  • Visual Object Search by Learning Spatial Context
  • Salient View Selection for Visual Recognition of Industrial Components
  • Low to High Dimensional Modality Reconstruction Using Aggregated Fields of View
  • Learning Fast Adaptation with Meta Strategy Optimization
  • Deep Neural Network Approach in Robot Tool Dynamics Identification for Bilateral Teleoperation
  • Learning Matchable Image Transformations for Long-Term Metric Visual Localization
  • OriNet: Robust 3-D Orientation Estimation with a Single Particular IMU
  • Learning Densities in Feature Space for Reliable Segmentation of Indoor Scenes
  • A Multimodal Target-Source Classifier with Attention Branches to Understand Ambiguous Instructions for Fetching Daily Objects
  • On-Board Deep-Learning-Based Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Fault Cause Detection and Identification
  • Learning One-Shot Imitation from Humans without Humans
  • Adversarial Skill Networks: Unsupervised Robot Skill Learning from Video
  • Event-Based Angular Velocity Regression with Spiking Networks
  • Visual Odometry Revisited: What Should Be Learnt?

  • 3D Scene Geometry-Aware Constraint for Camera Localization with Deep Learning

  • ACDER: Augmented Curiosity-Driven Experience Replay
  • TrueRMA: Learning Fast and Smooth Robot Trajectories with Recursive Midpoint Adaptations in Cartesian Space

Motion and Path Planning

  • Hyperproperties for Robotics: Planning Via HyperLTL
  • Abstractions for Computing All Robotic Sensors That Suffice to Solve a Planning Problem
  • T* : A Heuristic Search Based Path Planning Algorithm for Temporal Logic Specifications
  • Global/local Motion Planning Based on Dynamic Trajectory Reconfiguration and Dynamical Systems for Autonomous Surgical Robots
  • Deep Imitative Reinforcement Learning for Temporal Logic Robot Motion Planning with Noisy Semantic Observations
  • Minimal 3D Dubins Path with Bounded Curvature and Pitch Angle
  • Adaptively Informed Trees (AIT*): Fast Asymptotically Optimal Path Planning through Adaptive Heuristics
  • Informing Multi-Modal Planning with Synergistic Discrete Leads
  • Hierarchical Coverage Path Planning in Complex 3D Environments
  • Perception-Aware Time Optimal Path Parameterization for Quadrotors
  • Generating Visibility-Aware Trajectories for Cooperative and Proactive Motion Planning
  • An Obstacle-Interaction Planning Method for Navigation of Actuated Vine Robots
  • A New Path Planning Architecture to Consider Motion Uncertainty in Natural Environment
  • Revisiting the Asymptotic Optimality of RRT*

  • Sample Complexity of Probabilistic Roadmaps Via Epsilon Nets

  • Reinforcement Learning Based Manipulation Skill Transferring for Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery
  • Safe Mission Planning under Dynamical Uncertainties
  • An Iterative Quadratic Method for General-Sum Differential Games with Feedback Linearizable Dynamics
  • Real-Time UAV Path Planning for Autonomous Urban Scene Reconstruction
  • A Fast Marching Gradient Sampling Strategy for Motion Planning Using an Informed Certificate Set
  • Privacy-Aware UAV Flights through Self-Configuring Motion Planning
  • Improved C-Space Exploration and Path Planning for Robotic Manipulators Using Distance Information
  • Tuning-Free Contact-Implicit Trajectory Optimization
  • PPCPP: A Predator�Prey-Based Approach to Adaptive Coverage Path Planning (I)

  • Advanced BIT (ABIT): Sampling-Based Planning with Advanced Graph-Search Techniques

  • Voxel-Based General Voronoi Diagram for Complex Data with Application on Motion Planning
  • Dynamic Movement Primitives for Moving Goals with Temporal Scaling Adaptation
  • Navigating Discrete Difference Equation Governed WMR by Virtual Linear Leader Guided HMPC
  • Dispertio: Optimal Sampling for Safe Deterministic Sampling-Based Motion Planning
  • Aggregation and Localization of Simple Robots in Curved Environments
  • Interpretable Run-Time Monitoring and Replanning for Safe Autonomous Systems Operations
  • An Efficient Sampling-Based Method for Online Informative Path Planning in Unknown Environments
  • Koopman Operator Method for Chance-Constrained Motion Primitive Planning
  • Robust Humanoid Contact Planning with Learned Zero and One-Step Capturability Prediction
  • Differential Flatness Based Path Planning with Direct Collocation on Hybrid Modes for a Quadrotor with a Cable-Suspended Payload
  • A Real-Time Approach for Chance-Constrained Motion Planning with Dynamic Obstacles
  • Learning When to Trust a Dynamics Model for Planning in Reduced State Spaces
  • MIST: A Single-Query Path Planning Approach Using Memory and Information-Sharing Trees
  • Fast Planning Over Roadmaps Via Selective Densification
  • Refined Analysis of Asymptotically-Optimal Kinodynamic Planning in the State-Cost Space
  • Polygon-Based Random Tree Search Planning for Variable Geometry Truss Robot
  • An Iterative Dynamic Programming Approach to the Multipoint Markov-Dubins Problem
  • GOMP: Grasp-Optimized Motion Planning for Bin Picking
  • Motion Planning and Task Allocation for a Jumping Rover Team
  • Active 3D Modeling Via Online Multi-View Stereo
  • Reoriented Short-Cuts (RSC): An Adjustment Method for Locally Optimal Path Short-Cutting in High DoF Configuration Spaces
  • Learning Resilient Behaviors for Navigation under Uncertainty Environments
  • Motion Planning Explorer: Visualizing Local Minima Using a Local-Minima Tree
  • Fog Robotics Algorithms for Distributed Motion Planning Using Lambda Serverless Computing
  • Exploration of 3D Terrains Using Potential Fields with Elevation-Based Local Distortions
  • R3T: Rapidly-Exploring Random Reachable Set Tree for Optimal Kinodynamic Planning of Nonlinear Hybrid Systems
  • DeepSemanticHPPC: Hypothesis-Based Planning Over Uncertain Semantic Point Clouds
  • Balancing Actuation and Computing Energy in Motion Planning
  • Posterior Sampling for Anytime Motion Planning on Graphs with Expensive-To-Evaluate Edges

Aerial Systems: Mechanics and Control

  • Model Reference Adaptive Control of Multirotor for Missions with Dynamic Change of Payloads During Flight
  • Adaptive Air Density Estimation for Precise Tracking Control and Accurate External Wrench Observation for Flying Robots
  • The Tiercel: A Novel Autonomous Micro Aerial Vehicle That Can Map the Environment by Flying into Obstacles
  • Full-Pose Manipulation Control of a Cable-Suspended Load with Multiple UAVs under Uncertainties
  • Learning Pugachev’s Cobra Maneuver for Tail-Sitter UAVs Using Acceleration Model
  • Adaptive Control of Variable-Pitch Propellers: Pursuing Minimum-Effort Operation
  • Design and Control of a Variable Aerial Cable Towed System
  • Novel Model-Based Control Mixing Strategy for a Coaxial Push-Pull Multirotor
  • Robust Quadcopter Control with Artificial Vector Fields
  • Global Identification of the Propeller Gains and Dynamic Parameters of Quadrotors from Flight Data
  • Gemini: A Compact yet Efficient Bi-Copter UAV for Indoor Applications
  • Direct Force Feedback Control and Online Multi-Task Optimization for Aerial Manipulators
  • Nonlinear Vector-Projection Control for Agile Fixed-Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Adaptive Nonlinear Control of Fixed-Wing VTOL with Airflow Vector Sensing
  • The Reconfigurable Aerial Robotic Chain: Modeling and Control
  • Direct Acceleration Feedback Control of Quadrotor Aerial Vehicles
  • Trajectory Tracking Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for an Overactuated MAV
  • Optimal Oscillation Damping Control of Cable-Suspended Aerial Manipulator with a Single IMU Sensor
  • Upset Recovery Control for Quadrotors Subjected to a Complete Rotor Failure from Large Initial Disturbances
  • Identification and Evaluation of a Force Model for Multirotor UAVs
  • Preliminary Study of an Aerial Manipulator with Elastic Suspension
  • Towards Low-Latency High-Bandwidth Control of Quadrotors Using Event Cameras
  • Perception-Constrained and Motor-Level Nonlinear MPC for Both Underactuated and Tilted-Propeller UAVs
  • Coordinate-Free Dynamics and Differential Flatness of a Class of 6DOF Aerial Manipulators

Autonomous Driving

  • Goal Directed Occupancy Prediction for Lane Following Actors
  • Intent-Aware Pedestrian Prediction for Adaptive Crowd Navigation
  • Brno Urban Dataset - the New Data for Self-Driving Agents and Mapping Tasks
  • Efficient Uncertainty-Aware Decision-Making for Automated Driving Using Guided Branching
  • Imitative Reinforcement Learning Fusing Vision and Pure Pursuit for Self-Driving
  • Adversarial Appearance Learning in Augmented Cityscapes for Pedestrian Recognition in Autonomous Driving
  • A*3D Dataset: Towards Autonomous Driving in Challenging Environments
  • SegVoxelNet: Exploring Semantic Context and Depth-Aware Features for 3D Vehicle Detection from Point Cloud
  • Fine-Grained Driving Behavior Prediction Via Context-Aware Multi-Task Inverse Reinforcement Learning
  • How to Keep HD Maps for Automated Driving up to Date
  • Binary DAD-Net: Binarized Driveable Area Detection Network for Autonomous Driving
  • Learning Robust Control Policies for End-To-End Autonomous Driving from Data-Driven Simulation
  • FG-GMM-Based Interactive Behavior Estimation for Autonomous Driving Vehicles in Ramp Merging Control
  • Cooperative Perception and Localization for Cooperative Driving
  • Learning to Drive Off Road on Smooth Terrain in Unstructured Environments Using an On-Board Camera and Sparse Aerial Images
  • RoadTrack: Realtime Tracking of Road Agents in Dense and Heterogeneous Environments
  • Cooperative Control of Heterogeneous Connected Vehicle Platoons: An Adaptive Leader-Following Approach
  • Semantic Segmentation with Unsupervised Domain Adaptation under Varying Weather Conditions for Autonomous Vehicles
  • Deep Merging: Vehicle Merging Controller Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning with Embedding Network
  • Radar As a Teacher: Weakly Supervised Vehicle Detection Using Radar Labels
  • Robust Lane Detection with Binary Integer Optimization
  • A Synchronization Approach for Achieving Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control Based Non-Stop Intersection Passing
  • Self-Supervised Linear Motion Deblurring
  • Urban Driving with Conditional Imitation Learning
  • Simulation-Based Reinforcement Learning for Real-World Autonomous Driving
  • Driving Style Encoder: Situational Reward Adaptation for General-Purpose Planning in Automated Driving
  • Analysis and Prediction of Pedestrian Crosswalk Behavior During Automated Vehicle Interactions
  • The Oxford Radar RobotCar Dataset: A Radar Extension to the Oxford RobotCar Dataset
  • Multi-Modal Experts Network for Autonomous Driving
  • Spatiotemporal Relationship Reasoning for Pedestrian Intent Prediction
  • TunerCar: A Superoptimization Toolchain for Autonomous Racing
  • Risk Assessment and Planning with Bidirectional Reachability for Autonomous Driving
  • MapLite: Autonomous Intersection Navigation without a Detailed Prior Map
  • Game Theoretic Decision Making Based on Real Sensor Data for Autonomous Vehicles’ Maneuvers in High Traffic
  • Driving in Dense Traffic with Model-Free Reinforcement Learning
  • Enhancing Game-Theoretic Autonomous Car Racing Using Control Barrier Functions
  • CMTS: An Conditional Multiple Trajectory Synthesizer for Generating Safety-Critical Driving Scenarios
  • LiDAR Inertial Odometry Aided Robust LiDAR Localization System in Changing City Scenes
  • Dynamic Interaction-Aware Scene Understanding for Reinforcement Learning in Autonomous Driving
  • Interacting Vehicle Trajectory Prediction with Convolutional Recurrent Neural Networks
  • Navigation Command Matching for Vision-Based Autonomous Driving
  • GraphRQI: Classifying Driver Behaviors Using Graph Spectrums

Localization

  • ROI-Cloud: A Key Region Extraction Method for LiDAR Odometry and Localization
  • To Learn or Not to Learn: Visual Localization from Essential Matrices
  • Hierarchical Multi-Process Fusion for Visual Place Recognition
  • Camera Tracking in Lighting Adaptable Maps of Indoor Environments
  • Fast, Compact and Highly Scalable Visual Place Recognition through Sequence-Based Matching of Overloaded Representations
  • Vision-Based Multi-MAV Localization with Anonymous Relative Measurements Using Coupled Probabilistic Data Association Filter
  • UrbanLoco: A Full Sensor Suite Dataset for Mapping and Localization in Urban Scenes
  • Map As the Hidden Sensor: Fast Odometry-Based Global Localization
  • Joint Human Pose Estimation and Stereo 3D Localization
  • Self-Supervised Deep Pose Corrections for Robust Visual Odometry
  • Ultra-High-Accuracy Visual Marker for Indoor Precise Positioning
  • Accurate Position Tracking with a Single UWB Anchor
  • Association-Free Multilateration Based on Times of Arrival
  • Adversarial Feature Disentanglement for Place Recognition across Changing Appearance
  • A Fast and Accurate Solution for Pose Estimation from 3D Correspondences
  • Ground Texture Based Localization Using Compact Binary Descriptors
  • Reliable Data Association for Feature-Based Vehicle Localization Using Geometric Hashing Methods
  • Vehicle Localization Based on Visual Lane Marking and Topological Map Matching
  • RISE: A Novel Indoor Visual Place Recogniser
  • Beyond Photometric Consistency: Gradient-Based Dissimilarity for Improving Visual Odometry and Stereo Matching
  • ICS: Incremental Constrained Smoothing for State Estimation
  • Drone-Aided Localization in LoRa IoT Networks
  • A Fast and Practical Method of Indoor Localization for Resource-Constrained Devices with Limited Sensing
  • GN-Net: The Gauss-Newton Loss for Multi-Weather Relocalization
  • A Data-Driven Motion Prior for Continuous-Time Trajectory Estimation on SE(3)

  • Estimation with Fast Feature Selection in Robot Visual Navigation

  • A Tightly Coupled VLC-Inertial Localization System by EKF
  • Localization of Inspection Device Along Belt Conveyors with Multiple Branches Using Deep Neural Networks
  • Localising PMDs through CNN Based Perception of Urban Streets
  • The Complex-Step Derivative Approximation on Matrix Lie Groups
  • Hybrid Localization Using Model and Learning-Based Methods: Fusion of Monte Carlo and E2E Localizations Via Importance Sampling
  • Measurement Scheduling for Cooperative Localization in Resource-Constrained Conditions
  • Quantifying Robot Localization Safety: A New Integrity Monitoring Method for Fixed-Lag Smoothing
  • Visual Localization with Google Earth Images for Robust Global Pose Estimation of UAVs
  • Relax and Recover: Guaranteed Range-Only Continuous Localization
  • SPRINT: Subgraph Place Recognition for Intelligent Transportation
  • OneShot Global Localization: Instant LiDAR-Visual Pose Estimation
  • Relocalization on Submaps: Multi-Session Mapping for Planetary Rovers Equipped with Stereo Cameras
  • DeepTIO: A Deep Thermal-Inertial Odometry with Visual Hallucination
  • RSL-Net: Localising in Satellite Images from a Radar on the Ground
  • Kidnapped Radar: Topological Radar Localisation Using Rotationally-Invariant Metric Learning
  • Global Visual Localization in LiDAR-Maps through Shared 2D-3D Embedding Space
  • Unsupervised Learning Methods for Visual Place Recognition in Discretely and Continuously Changing Environments
  • LOL: Lidar-Only Odometry and Localization in 3D Point Cloud Maps
  • Localising Faster: Efficient and Precise Lidar-Based Robot Localisation in Large-Scale Environments
  • Set-Membership State Estimation by Solving Data Association

Learning from Demonstration

  • Benchmark for Skill Learning from Demonstration: Impact of User Experience, Task Complexity, and Start Configuration on Performance
  • MPC-Net: A First Principles Guided Policy Search
  • Robot Programming without Coding
  • Learning Robust Task Priorities and Gains for Control of Redundant Robots
  • Planning with Uncertain Specifications (PUnS)

  • Predictive Modeling of Periodic Behavior for Human-Robot Symbiotic Walking

  • Adaptive Curriculum Generation from Demonstrations for Sim-To-Real Visuomotor Control
  • Accept Synthetic Objects As Real: End-To-End Training of Attentive Deep Visuomotor Policies for Manipulation in Clutter
  • A Probabilistic Framework for Imitating Human Race Driver Behavior
  • Learning of Exception Strategies in Assembly Tasks
  • A Framework for Learning from Demonstration with Minimal Human Effort
  • Learning Constraints from Locally-Optimal Demonstrations under Cost Function Uncertainty
  • Gershgorin Loss Stabilizes the Recurrent Neural Network Compartment of an End-To-End Robot Learning Scheme
  • Mini-Batched Online Incremental Learning through Supervisory Teleoperation with Kinesthetic Coupling
  • Recurrent Neural Network Control of a Hybrid Dynamical Transfemoral Prosthesis with EdgeDRNN Accelerator
  • Cross-Context Visual Imitation Learning from Demonstrations
  • Improving Generalisation in Learning Assistance by Demonstration for Smart Wheelchairs
  • Analyzing the Suitability of Cost Functions for Explaining and Imitating Human Driving Behavior Based on Inverse Reinforcement Learning
  • A Linearly Constrained Nonparametric Framework for Imitation Learning
  • An Energy-Based Approach to Ensure the Stability of Learned Dynamical Systems
  • IRIS: Implicit Reinforcement without Interaction at Scale for Learning Control from Offline Robot Manipulation Data
  • Geometry-Aware Dynamic Movement Primitives
  • Learning a Pile Loading Controller from Demonstrations
  • Learning Navigation Costs from Demonstration in Partially Observable Environments

Medical Robots and Systems

  • Design of a Percutaneous MRI-Guided Needle Robot with Soft Fluid-Driven Actuator
  • SCADE: Simultaneous Sensor Calibration and Deformation Estimation of FBG-Equipped Unmodeled Continuum Manipulators (I)

  • Novel Optimization-Based Design and Surgical Evaluation of a Treaded Robotic Capsule Colonoscope (I)

  • Generative Localisation with Uncertainty Estimation through Video-CT Data for Bronchoscopic Biopsy

  • Internet of Things (IoT)-Based Collaborative Control of a Redundant Manipulator for Teleoperated Minimally Invasive Surgeries
  • Design and Prototyping of a Bio-Inspired Kinematic Sensing Suit for the Shoulder Joint: Precursor to a Multi-DoF Shoulder Exosuit
  • LaryngoTORS: A Novel Cable-Driven Parallel Robotic System for Transoral Laser Phonosurgery
  • Online Disturbance Estimation for Improving Kinematic Accuracy in Continuum Manipulators
  • Permanent Magnet-Based Localization for Growing Robots in Medical Applications
  • An Ergonomic Shared Workspace Analysis Framework for the Optimal Placement of a Compact Master Control Console
  • Virtual Fixture Assistance for Suturing in Robot-Aided Pediatric Endoscopic Surgery
  • Design, Modeling, and Control of a Compact SMA-Actuated MR-Conditional Steerable Neurosurgical Robot
  • Constrained-Space Optimization and Reinforcement Learning for Complex Tasks
  • Automatic Design of Compliant Surgical Forceps with Adaptive Grasping Functions
  • A Parametric Grasping Methodology for Multi-Manual Interactions in Real-Time Dynamic Simulations
  • PCA-Based Visual Servoing Using Optical Coherence Tomography
  • A Tele-Operated Microsurgical Forceps-Driver with a Variable Stiffness Haptic Feedback Master Device
  • Hysteresis Compensator with Learning-Based Hybrid Joint Angle Estimation for Flexible Surgery Robots
  • Towards FBG-Based Shape Sensing for Micro-Scale and Meso-Scale Continuum Robots with Large Deflection
  • Agile 3D-Navigation of a Helical Magnetic Swimmer
  • Two Shank-Mounted IMUs-Based Gait Analysis and Classification for Neurological Disease Patients
  • An Open-Source Framework for Rapid Development of Interactive Soft-Body Simulations for Real-Time Training
  • Towards 5-DoF Control of an Untethered Magnetic Millirobot Via MRI Gradient Coils
  • The ARMM System - Autonomous Steering of Magnetically-Actuated Catheters: Towards Endovascular Applications
  • Automatic Normal Positioning of Robotic Ultrasound Probe Based Only on Confidence Map Optimization and Force Measurement
  • A Semi-Autonomous Stereotactic Brain Biopsy Robot with Enhanced Safety
  • Magnetically Steered Robotic Insertion of Cochlear-Implant Electrode Arrays: System Integration and First-In-Cadaver Results
  • Magnetic Sensor Based Topographic Localization for Automatic Dislocation of Ingested Button Battery
  • A Fully Actuated Body-Mounted Robotic Assistant for MRI-Guided Low Back Pain Injection
  • Fault Tolerant Control in Shape-Changing Internal Robots
  • Evaluation of Increasing Camera Baseline on Depth Perception in Surgical Robotics
  • Toward Autonomous Robotic Micro-Suturing Using Optical Coherence Tomography Calibration and Path Planning
  • Improved Multiple Objects Tracking Based Autonomous Simultaneous Magnetic Actuation & Localization for WCE
  • Towards Bimanual Vein Cannulation: Preliminary Study of a Bimanual Robotic System with a Dual Force Constraints Controller
  • Evaluation of a Combined Grip of Pinch and Power Grips in Manipulating a Master Manipulator
  • Contact Stability Analysis of Magnetically-Actuated Robotic Catheter under Surface Motion
  • Fast and Accurate Intracorporeal Targeting through an Anatomical Orifice Exhibiting Unknown Behavior
  • Robotic Swarm Control for Precise and On-Demand Embolization
  • Bilateral Teleoperation Control of a Redundant Manipulator with an RCM Kinematic Constraint

Legged Robots

  • An Open Torque-Controlled Modular Robot Architecture for Legged Locomotion Research
  • Passive Quadrupedal Gait Synchronization for Extra Robotic Legs Using a Dynamically Coupled Double Rimless Wheel Model
  • Optimal Fast Entrainment Waveform for Indirectly Controlled Limit Cycle Walker against External Disturbances
  • GaitMesh: Controller-Aware Navigation Meshes for Long-Range Legged Locomotion Planning in Multi-Layered Environments
  • Mechanical Shock Propagation Reduction in Robot Legs
  • Guided Constrained Policy Optimization for Dynamic Quadrupedal Robot Locomotion
  • MPC-Based Controller with Terrain Insight for Dynamic Legged Locomotion
  • An Adaptive Supervisory Control Approach to Dynamic Locomotion under Parametric Uncertainty
  • Joint Space Position/Torque Hybrid Control of the Quadruped Robot for Locomotion and Push Reaction
  • Improved Performance on Moving-Mass Hopping Robots with Parallel Elasticity
  • Vision Aided Dynamic Exploration of Unstructured Terrain with a Small-Scale Quadruped Robot
  • Reactive Support Polygon Adaptation for the Hybrid Legged-Wheeled CENTAURO Robot
  • Reliable Trajectories for Dynamic Quadrupeds Using Analytical Costs and Learned Initializations
  • On the Hardware Feasibility of Nonlinear Trajectory Optimization for Legged Locomotion Based on a Simplified Dynamics
  • Agile Legged-Wheeled Reconfigurable Navigation Planner Applied on the CENTAURO Robot
  • Bounded Haptic Teleoperation of a Quadruped Robot’s Foot Posture for Sensing and Manipulation
  • Pinbot: A Walking Robot with Locking Pin Arrays for Passive Adaptability to Rough Terrains
  • Planning for the Unexpected: Explicitly Optimizing Motions for Ground Uncertainty in Running
  • On the Efficient Control of Series-Parallel Compliant Articulated Robots
  • Preintegrated Velocity Bias Estimation to Overcome Contact Nonlinearities in Legged Robot Odometry
  • Optimized Foothold Planning and Posture Searching for Energy-Efficient Quadruped Locomotion Over Challenging Terrains
  • Extracting Legged Locomotion Heuristics with Regularized Predictive Control
  • Learning Generalizable Locomotion Skills with Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning
  • SoRX: A Soft Pneumatic Hexapedal Robot to Traverse Rough, Steep, and Unstable Terrain
  • Probe-Before-Step Walking Strategy for Multi-Legged Robots on Terrain with Risk of Collapse
  • An Augmented Kinematic Model for the Cartesian Control of the Hybrid Wheeled-Legged Quadrupedal Robot CENTAURO
  • Precision Robotic Leaping and Landing Using Stance-Phase Balance
  • STANCE: Locomotion Adaptation Over Soft Terrain (I)

  • Rolling in the Deep - Hybrid Locomotion for Wheeled-Legged Robots Using Online Trajectory Optimization

  • Optimal Landing Strategy for Two-Mass Hopping Leg with Natural Dynamics
  • From Bipedal Walking to Quadrupedal Locomotion: Full-Body Dynamics Decomposition for Rapid Gait Generation
  • Posture Control for a Low-Cost Commercially-Available Hexapod Robot
  • DeepGait: Planning and Control of Quadrupedal Gaits Using Deep Reinforcement Learning
  • The Soft-Landing Problem: Minimizing Energy Loss by a Legged Robot Impacting Yielding Terrain
  • A Computational Framework for Designing Skilled Legged-Wheeled Robots

Multi-Robot Systems

  • Optimal Perimeter Guarding with Heterogeneous Robot Teams: Complexity Analysis and Effective Algorithms
  • Spatial Scheduling of Informative Meetings for Multi-Agent Persistent Coverage
  • Simultaneous Policy and Discrete Communication Learning for Multi-Agent Cooperation
  • Cooperative Team Strategies for Multi-Player Perimeter-Defense Games
  • Multirobot Symmetric Formations for Gradient and Hessian Estimation with Application to Source Seeking (I)

  • Multi-Robot Path Deconfliction through Prioritization by Path Prospects

  • Cooperative Aerial-Ground Multi-Robot System for Automated Construction Tasks
  • A Connectivity-Prediction Algorithm and Its Application in Active Cooperative Localization for Multi-Robot Systems
  • Multi-Agent Formation Control Based on Distributed Estimation with Prescribed Performance
  • Optimization-Based Distributed Flocking Control for Multiple Rigid Bodies
  • Behavior Mixing with Minimum Global and Subgroup Connectivity Maintenance for Large-Scale Multi-Robot Systems
  • CAPRICORN: Communication Aware Place Recognition Using Interpretable Constellations of Objects in Robot Networks
  • Online Planning for Quadrotor Teams in 3-D Workspaces Via Reachability Analysis on Invariant Geometric Trees
  • Decentralized Visual-Inertial-UWB Fusion for Relative State Estimation of Aerial Swarm
  • Synthesis of a Time-Varying Communication Network by Robot Teams with Information Propagation Guarantees
  • DC-CAPT: Concurrent Assignment and Planning of Trajectories for Dubins Cars
  • An Adversarial Approach to Private Flocking in Mobile Robot Teams
  • Subspace Projectors for State-Constrained Multi-Robot Consensus
  • Multi-Agent Task Allocation Using Cross-Entropy Temporal Logic Optimization
  • Adaptive Task Allocation for Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Teams with Evolving and Unknown Robot Capabilities
  • Mobile Wireless Network Infrastructure on Demand
  • Monitoring Over the Long Term: Intermittent Deployment and Sensing Strategies for Multi-Robot Teams
  • Multi-Robot Coordination for Estimation and Coverage of Unknown Spatial Fields
  • Dense R-Robust Formations on Lattices
  • Optimizing Topologies for Probabilistically Secure Multi-Robot Systems
  • Efficient Communication in Large Multi-Robot Networks
  • CyPhyHouse: A Programming, Simulation, and Deployment Toolchain for Heterogeneous Distributed Coordination
  • Chance Constrained Simultaneous Path Planning and Task Assignment for Multiple Robots with Stochastic Path Costs
  • Optimal Topology Selection for Stable Coordination of Asymmetrically Interacting Multi-Robot Systems
  • Representing Multi-Robot Structure through Multimodal Graph Embedding for the Selection of Robot Teams
  • MAMS-A: Multi-Agent Multi-Scale A

  • Connectivity Maintenance: Global and Optimized Approach through Control Barrier Functions

  • Controller Synthesis for Infinitesimally Shape-Similar Formations
  • A Distributed Source Term Estimation Algorithm for Multi-Robot Systems
  • Weighted Buffered Voronoi Cells for Distributed Semi-Cooperative Behavior
  • Collaborative Multi-Robot Localization in Natural Terrain
  • Multi-Robot Control Using Coverage Over Time-Varying Non-Convex Domains
  • Efficient Large-Scale Multi-Drone Delivery Using Transit Networks
  • Resilience in Multi-Robot Target Tracking through Reconfiguration
  • Teleoperation of Multi-Robot Systems to Relax Topological Constraints
  • Eciton Robotica: Design and Algorithms for an Adaptive Self-Assembling Soft Robot Collective

Modeling, Control, and Learning for Soft Robots

  • Learning Robotic Assembly Tasks with Lower Dimensional Systems by Leveraging Softness and Environmental Constraints
  • Titan: A Parallel Asynchronous Library for Multi-Agent and Soft-Body Robotics Using NVIDIA CUDA
  • Motion Planning with Competency-Aware Transition Models for Underactuated Adaptive Hands
  • Learning to Walk a Tripod Mobile Robot Using Nonlinear Soft Vibration Actuators with Entropy Adaptive Reinforcement Learning
  • Time Generalization of Trajectories Learned on Articulated Soft Robots
  • A Probabilistic Model-Based Online Learning Optimal Control Algorithm for Soft Pneumatic Actuators
  • Rigid-Soft Interactive Learning for Robust Grasping
  • Model and Data Based Approaches to the Control of Tensegrity Robots
  • Stiffness Imaging with a Continuum Appendage: Real-Time Shape and Tip Force Estimation from Base Load Readings
  • Sim-To-Real Transfer Learning Approach for Tracking Multi-DOF Ankle Motions Using Soft Strain Sensors
  • Model-Based Pose Control of Inflatable Eversion Robot with Variable Stiffness
  • Learning to Control Reconfigurable Staged Soft Arms
  • Open-Loop Position Control in Collaborative, Modular Variable-Stiffness-Link (VSL) Robots
  • Control of a Silicone Soft Tripod Robot Via Uncertainty Compensation
  • Control Oriented Modeling of Soft Robots: The Polynomial Curvature Case
  • Modeling and Analysis of SMA Actuator Embedded in Stretchable Coolant Vascular Pursuing Artificial Muscles
  • Distributed Proprioception of 3D Configuration in Soft, Sensorized Robots Via Deep Learning
  • Stable Tool-Use with Flexible Musculoskeletal Hands by Learning the Predictive Model of Sensor State Transition
  • Learning to Transfer Dynamic Models of Underactuated Soft Robotic Hands
  • Periodic Movement Learning in a Soft-Robotic Arm
  • An Input Observer-Based Stiffness Estimation Approach for Flexible Robot Joints
  • Fast Model-Based Contact Patch and Pose Estimation for Highly Deformable Dense-Geometry Tactile Sensors
  • Mechanism and Model of a Soft Robot for Head Stabilization in Cancer Radiation Therapy

Manipulation

  • Grasping Unknown Objects by Coupling Deep Reinforcement Learning, Generative Adversarial Networks, and Visual Servoing
  • Incorporating Motion Planning Feasibility Considerations During Task-Agent Assignment to Perform Complex Tasks Using Mobile-Manipulators
  • Learning to Scaffold the Development of Robotic Manipulation Skills
  • Online Replanning in Belief Space for Partially Observable Task and Motion Problems
  • An Automated Dynamic-Balancing-Inspection Scheme for Wheel Machining
  • Faster Confined Space Manufacturing Teleoperation through Dynamic Autonomy with Task Dynamics Imitation Learning
  • Learning Precise 3D Manipulation from Multiple Uncalibrated Cameras
  • Surfing on an Uncertain Edge: Precision Cutting of Soft Tissue Using Torque-Based Medium Classification
  • Dynamic Cloth Manipulation with Deep Reinforcement Learning
  • Learning to Combine Primitive Skills: A Step towards Versatile Robotic Manipulation
  • Learning to Assemble: Estimating 6D Poses for Robotic Object-Object Manipulation
  • Learning Affordance Space in Physical World for Vision-Based Robotic Object Manipulation

Sensor Fusion

  • LiStereo: Generate Dense Depth Maps from LIDAR and Stereo Imagery
  • Monocular Visual-Inertial Odometry in Low-Textured Environments with Smooth Gradients: A Fully Dense Direct Filtering Approach
  • Gated Recurrent Fusion to Learn Driving Behaviour from Temporal Multimodal Data
  • Cooperative Visual-Inertial Odometry: Analysis of Singularities, Degeneracies and Minimal Cases
  • A Lightweight and Accurate Localization Algorithm Using Multiple Inertial Measurement Units
  • Accelerating the Estimation of Metabolic Cost Using Signal Derivatives: Implications for Optimization and Evaluation of Wearable Robots (I)

  • Deep Depth Fusion for Black, Transparent, Reflective and Texture-Less Objects

  • LiDAR-Enhanced Structure-From-Motion
  • Low Latency and Low-Level Sensor Fusion for Automotive Use-Cases
  • Spatiotemporal Camera-LiDAR Calibration: A Targetless and Structureless Approach
  • Robot-Assisted and Wearable Sensor-Mediated Autonomous Gait Analysis
  • Gaussian Process Preintegration for Inertial-Aided State Estimation
  • A Code for Unscented Kalman Filtering on Manifolds (UKF-M)

  • Efficient and Precise Sensor Fusion for Non-Linear Systems with Out-Of-Sequence Measurements by Example of Mobile Robotics

  • UNO: Uncertainty-Aware Noisy-Or Multimodal Fusion for Unanticipated Input Degradation
  • Intermittent GPS-Aided VIO: Online Initialization and Calibration
  • A Mathematical Framework for IMU Error Propagation with Applications to Preintegration
  • Radar-Inertial Ego-Velocity Estimation for Visually DegradedEnvironments
  • Observability Analysis of Flight State Estimation for UAVs and Experimental Validation
  • OpenVINS: A Research Platform for Visual-Inertial Estimation
  • Decentralized Collaborative State Estimation for Aided Inertial Navigation
  • Analytic Combined IMU Integration (ACI^2) for Visual Inertial Navigation
  • Second-Order Kinematics for Floating-Base Robots Using the Redundant Acceleration Feedback of an Artificial Sensory Skin
  • Clock-Based Time Synchronization for an Event-Based Camera Dataset Acquisition Platform

Compliance and Impedance Control

  • Hierarchical Impedance-Based Tracking Control of Kinematically Redundant Robots (I)

  • Position-Based Impedance Control of a 2-DOF Compliant Manipulator for a Facade Cleaning Operation

  • Robust, Locally Guided Peg-In-Hole with Impedance-Controlled Robots
  • Model-Free Friction Observers for Flexible Joint Robots with Torque Measurements (I)

  • Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for the Passivity of Impedance Rendering with Velocity-Sourced Series Elastic Actuation (I)

  • Design of Spatial Admittance for Force-Guided Assembly of Polyhedral Parts in Single Point Frictional Contact

  • Model Predictive Impedance Control
  • Kinematic Modeling and Compliance Modulation of Redundant Manipulators under Bracing Constraints
  • Successive Stiffness Increment and Time Domain Passivity Approach for Stable High Bandwidth Control of Series Elastic Actuator
  • Arm-Hand Motion-Force Coordination for Physical Interactions with Non-Flat Surfaces Using Dynamical Systems: Toward Compliant Robotic Massage
  • A Control Scheme with a Novel DMP-Robot Coupling Achieving Compliance and Tracking Accuracy under Unknown Task Dynamics and Model Uncertainties
  • A Bio-Signal Enhanced Adaptive Impedance Controller for Lower Limb Exoskeleton

Visual Learning

  • Vid2Param: Modelling of Dynamics Parameters from Video
  • Safe Robot Navigation Via Multi-Modal Anomaly Detection
  • MAVRIC: Morphology-Agnostic Visual Robotic Control
  • MFuseNet: Robust Depth Estimation with Learned Multiscopic Fusion
  • Deceiving Image-To-Image Translation Networks for Autonomous Driving with Adversarial Perturbations
  • Self-Supervised Learning of State Estimation for Manipulating Deformable Linear Objects
  • Self-Supervised Correspondence in Visuomotor Policy Learning
  • Differentiable Mapping Networks: Learning Structured Map Representations for Sparse Visual Localization
  • Attentive Task-Net: Self Supervised Task-Attention Network for Imitation Learning Using Video Demonstration
  • OpenLORIS-Object: A Robotic Vision Dataset and Benchmark for Lifelong Deep Learning
  • Unsupervised Depth Completion from Visual Inertial Odometry
  • Geometric Pretraining for Monocular Depth Estimation

Soft Sensors and Actuators

  • Active Acoustic Contact Sensing for Soft Pneumatic Actuators
  • PneuAct-II: Hybrid Manufactured Electromagnetically Stealth Pneumatic Stepper Actuator
  • A Bidirectional 3D-Printed Soft Pneumatic Actuator and Graphite-Based Flex Sensor for Versatile Grasping
  • A Proprioceptive Bellows (PB) Actuator with Position Feedback and Force Estimation
  • Automatic Design of Soft Dielectric Elastomer Actuators with Optimal Spatial Electric Fields (I)
  • Stochastic Control for Orientation and Transportation of Microscopic Objects Using Multiple Optically Driven Robotic Fingertips (I)

  • Soft Fingertips with Adaptive Sensing and Active Deformation for Robust Grasping of Delicate Objects

  • Sensorization of a Continuum Body Gripper for High Force and Delicate Object Grasping
  • Eye-In-Hand Visual Servoing Enhanced with Sparse Strain Measurement for Soft Continuum Robots
  • A Soft Gripper with Retractable Nails for Advanced Grasping and Manipulation
  • A Sensorized Hybrid Gripper to Evaluate a Grasping Quality Based on a Largest Minimum Wrench
  • A Soft Pressure Sensor Skin for Hand and Wrist Orthoses
  • Characterisation of Self-Locking High-Contraction Electro-Ribbon Actuators
  • Helically Wrapped Supercoiled Polymer (HW-SCP) Artificial Muscles: Design, Characterization, and Modeling
  • A Variable Stiffness Soft Continuum Robot Based on Pre-Charged Air, Particle Jamming, and Origami
  • A Pneumatic/Cable-Driven Hybrid Linear Actuator with Combined Structure of Origami Chambers and Deployable Mechanism
  • Simple, Low-Hysteresis, Foldable, Fabric Pneumatic Artificial Muscle
  • Flat Inflatable Artificial Muscles with Large Stroke and Adjustable Force-Length Relations (I)

  • Joint Rotation Angle Sensing of Flexible Endoscopic Surgical Robots

  • Soft, Round, High Resolution Tactile Fingertip Sensors for Dexterous Robotic Manipulation
  • Creating a Soft Tactile Skin Employing Fluorescence Based Optical Sensing
  • FootTile: A Rugged Foot Sensor for Force and Center of Pressure Sensing in Soft Terrain
  • A Vision-Based Soft Somatosensory Approach for Distributed Pressure and Temperature Sensing
  • A Stretchable Capacitive Sensory Skin for Exploring Cluttered Environments

Wearable Robots

  • SwarmRail: A Novel Overhead Robot System for Indoor Transport and Mobile Manipulation
  • Fast Local Planning and Mapping in Unknown Off-Road Terrain
  • Multifunctional 3-DOF Wearable Supernumerary Robotic Arm Based on Magnetorheological Clutches
  • Leveraging the Human Operator in the Design and Control of Supernumerary Robotic Limbs
  • Revisiting Scaling Laws for Robotic Mobility in Granular Media
  • Learning a Control Policy for Fall Prevention on an Assistive Walking Device
  • Assistive Force of a Belt-Type Hip Assist Suit for Lifting the Swing Leg During Walking
  • Soft Pneumatic System for Interface Pressure Regulation and Automated Hands-Free Donning in Robotic Prostheses
  • Automated Detection of Soleus Concentric Contraction in Variable Gait Conditions for Improved Exosuit Control
  • Soft Sensing Shirt for Shoulder Kinematics Estimation
  • Characterizing Torso Stiffness in Female Adolescents with and without Scoliosis

Cognitive Human-Robot Interaction

  • Scaled Autonomy: Enabling Human Operators to Control Robot Fleets
  • An Actor-Critic Approach for Legible Robot Motion Planner
  • May I Draw Your Attention? Initial Lessons from the Large-Scale Generative Mark Maker
  • Intuitive 3D Control of a Quadrotor in User Proximity with Pointing Gestures
  • Joint Inference of States, Robot Knowledge, and Human (False-)Beliefs
  • Visual-Audio Cognitive Architecture for Autonomous Learning of Face Localisation by a Humanoid Robot
  • Motion Reasoning for Goal-Based Imitation Learning
  • Flexible Online Adaptation of Learning Strategy Using EEG-Based Reinforcement Signals in Real-World Robotic Applications
  • Object-Oriented Semantic Graph Based Natural Question Generation
  • Towards Safe Human-Robot Collaboration Using Deep Reinforcement Learning
  • Deep Compositional Robotic Planners That Follow Natural Language Commands
  • Learning User Preferences from Corrections on State Lattices

Robotics in Agriculture and Forestry

  • Visual Servoing-Based Navigation for Monitoring Row-Crop Fields
  • Optimal Routing Schedules for Robots Operating in Aisle-Structures
  • Time Optimal Motion Planning with ZMP Stability Constraint for Timber Manipulation
  • Plucking Motions for Tea Harvesting Robots Using Probabilistic Movement Primitives
  • SLOAM: Semantic Lidar Odometry and Mapping for Forest Inventory
  • Push and Drag: An Active Obstacle Separation Method for Fruit Harvesting Robots

Calibration and Identification

  • Unified Intrinsic and Extrinsic Camera and LiDAR Calibration under Uncertainties
  • AC/DCC : Accurate Calibration of Dynamic Camera Clusters for Visual SLAM
  • Analytic Plane Covariances Construction for Precise Planarity-Based Extrinsic Calibration of Camera and LiDAR
  • A Stable Adaptive Observer for Hard-Iron and Soft-Iron Bias Calibration and Compensation for Two-Axis Magnetometers: Theory and Experimental Evaluation
  • Extrinsic Calibration of an Eye-In-Hand 2D LiDAR Sensor in Unstructured Environments Using ICP
  • Geometric Robot Dynamic Identification: A Convex Programming Approach (I)

  • A Novel Calibration Method between a Camera and a 3D LiDAR with Infrared Images

  • Online Camera-LiDAR Calibration with Sensor Semantic Information
  • Precise 3D Calibration of Wafer Handling Robot by Visual Detection and Tracking of Elliptic-Shape Wafers
  • Globally Optimal Relative Pose Estimation for Camera on a Selfie Stick
  • Online Calibration of Exterior Orientations of a Vehicle-Mounted Surround-View Camera System
  • Learning Camera Miscalibration Detection

Industrial Robots

  • An End-Effector Wrist Module for the Kinematically Redundant Manipulation of Arm-Type Robots
  • Robust Path Following of the Tractor-Trailers System in GPS-Denied Environments
  • Online Trajectory Planning for an Industrial Tractor Towing Multiple Full Trailers
  • Towards Efficient Human Robot Collaboration with Robust Plan Recognition and Trajectory Prediction
  • Collaborative Human-Robot Framework for Delicate Sanding of Complex Shape Surface
  • External Force Estimation for Industrial Robots with Flexible Joints
  • Robotic General Parts Feeder: Bin-Picking, Regrasping, and Kitting
  • Planning, Learning and Reasoning Framework for Robot Truck Unloading
  • Evaluation of Perception Latencies in a Human-Robot Collaborative Environment
  • Assembly of Randomly Placed Parts Realized by Using Only One Robot Arm with a General Parallel-Jaw Gripper
  • Drive-Based Vibration Damping Control for Robot Machining
  • Toward Fast and Optimal Robotic Pick-And-Place on a Moving Conveyor

Biomimetics

  • A Bio-Inspired Transportation Network for Scalable Swarm Foraging
  • Stance Control Inspired by Cerebellum Stabilizes Reflex-Based Locomotion on HyQ Robot
  • Error Estimation and Correction in a Spiking Neural Network for Map Formation in Neuromorphic Hardware
  • A Hybrid Compact Neural Architecture for Visual Place Recognition
  • Musculoskeletal AutoEncoder: A Unified Online Acquisition Method of Intersensory Networks for State Estimation, Control, and Simulation of Musculoskeletal Humanoids
  • Snake-Inspired Kirigami Skin for Lateral Undulation of a Soft Snake Robot
  • Bio-Inspired Distance Estimation Using the Self-Induced Acoustic Signature of a Motor-Propeller System
  • A Bio-Inspired 3-DOF Light-Weight Manipulator with Tensegrity X-Joints
  • The Lobster-Inspired Antagonistic Actuation Mechanism towards a Bending Module
  • Emulating Duration and Curvature of Coral Snake Anti-Predator Thrashing Behaviors Using a Soft-Robotic Platform
  • Directional Mechanical Impedance of the Human Ankle During Standing with Active Muscles
  • Insect�Computer Hybrid Robot Achieves a Walking Gait Rarely Seen in Nature by Replacing the Anisotropic Natural Leg Spines with Isotropic Artificial Leg Spines (I)

Robust/Adaptive Control of Robotic Systems

  • Adaptive Visual Shock Absorber with Visual-Based Maxwell Model Using Magnetic Gear
  • Slip-Based Nonlinear Recursive Backstepping Path Following Controller for Autonomous Ground Vehicles
  • Fast and Safe Path-Following Control Using a State-Dependent Directional Metric
  • Backlash-Compensated Active Disturbance Rejection Control of Nonlinear Multi-Input Series Elastic Actuators
  • On Generalized Homogenization of Linear Quadrotor Controller
  • Coordinated Optical Tweezing and Manipulation of Multiple Microscopic Objects with Stochastic Perturbations
  • Contact Surface Estimation Via Hapic Perception
  • Local Policy Optimization for Trajectory-Centric Reinforcement Learning
  • Automatic Snake Gait Generation Using Model Predictive Control
  • Safe and Fast Tracking on a Robot Manipulator: Robust MPC and Neural Network Control
  • 3D Path-Following Using MRAC on a Millimeter-Scale Spiral-Type Magnetic Robot
  • Adaptive Model-Based Myoelectric Control for a Soft Wearable Arm Exosuit (I)

Space Robotics and Automation

  • Planetary Rover Exploration Combining Remote and in Situ Measurements for Active Spectroscopic Mapping
  • Magnetic Docking Mechanism for Free-Flying Space Robots with Spherical Surfaces
  • Barefoot Rover: A Sensor-Embedded Rover Wheel Demonstrating In-Situ Engineering and Science Extractions Using Machine Learning
  • Deep Learning for Spacecraft Pose Estimation from Photorealistic Rendering
  • Concurrent Parameter Identification and Control for Free-Floating Robotic Systems During On-Orbit Servicing
  • A Dual Quaternion-Based Discrete Variational Approach for Accurate and Online Inertial Parameter Estimation in Free-Flying Robots

Perception for Grasping and Manipulation

  • Transferable Task Execution from Pixels through Deep Planning Domain Learning
  • Depth by Poking: Learning to Estimate Depth from Self-Supervised Grasping
  • Online Learning of Object Representations by Appearance Space Feature Alignment
  • Visual Prediction of Priors for Articulated Object Interaction
  • MT-DSSD: Deconvolutional Single Shot Detector Using Multi Task Learning for Object Detection, Segmentation, and Grasping Detection
  • Using Synthetic Data and Deep Networks to Recognize Primitive Shapes for Object Grasping
  • Real-Time, Highly Accurate Robotic Grasp Detection Using Fully Convolutional Neural Network with Rotation Ensemble Module
  • Form2Fit: Learning Shape Priors for Generalizable Assembly from Disassembly
  • Learning Rope Manipulation Policies Using Dense Object Descriptors Trained on Synthetic Depth Data
  • Efficient Two Step Optimization for Large Embedded Deformation Graph Based SLAM
  • Camera-To-Robot Pose Estimation from a Single Image
  • DIGIT: A Novel Design for a Low-Cost Compact High-Resolution Tactile Sensor with Application to In-Hand Manipulation
  • LyRN (Lyapunov Reaching Network): A Real-Time Closed Loop Approach from Monocular Vision
  • Object Finding in Cluttered Scenes Using Interactive Perception
  • Multi-Modal Perception and Transfer Learning for Grasping Transparent and Specular Objects
  • CCAN: Constraint Co-Attention Network for Instance Grasping
  • RLBench: The Robot Learning Benchmark & Learning Environment
  • Learning Task-Oriented Grasping from Human Activity Datasets
  • Inferring the Material Properties of Granular Media for Robotic Tasks
  • KETO: Learning Keypoint Representations for Tool Manipulation
  • Learning to See before Learning to Act: Visual Pre-Training for Manipulation
  • Learning Continuous 3D Reconstructions for Geometrically Aware Grasping
  • Contact-Based In-Hand Pose Estimation Using Particle Filtering
  • A Single Multi-Task Deep Neural Network with Post-Processing for Object Detection with Reasoning and Robotic Grasp Detection
  • In-Hand Object Pose Tracking Via Contact Feedback and GPU-Accelerated Robotic Simulation
  • Robust, Occlusion-Aware Pose Estimation for Objects Grasped by Adaptive Hands
  • Robust 6D Object Pose Estimation by Learning RGB-D Features
  • Split Deep Q-Learning for Robust Object Singulation
  • 6-DOF Grasping for Target-Driven Object Manipulation in Clutter
  • Single Shot 6D Object Pose Estimation

Humanoid Robots

  • HRP-4 Walks on Soft Feet
  • A Study on Sparse Hierarchical Inverse Kinematics Algorithms for Humanoid Robots
  • Inferring the Geometric Nullspace of Robot Skills from Human Demonstrations
  • A Dynamical System Approach for Adaptive Grasping, Navigation and Co-Manipulation with Humanoid Robots
  • Humanoid Robots in Aircraft Manufacturing (I)
  • A Multi-Mode Teleoperation Framework for Humanoid Loco-Manipulation (I)

  • Balance of Humanoid Robots in a Mix of Fixed and Sliding Multi-Contact Scenarios

  • Fast Whole-Body Motion Control of Humanoid Robots with Inertia Constraints
  • SL1M: Sparse L1-Norm Minimization for Contact Planning on Uneven Terrain
  • Finding Locomanipulation Plans Quickly in the Locomotion Constrained Manifold
  • Force-Based Control of Bipedal Balancing on Dynamic Terrain with the “Tallahassee Cassie” Robotic Platform
  • Simultaneous Control Framework for Humanoid Tracking Human Movement with Interacting Wearable Assistive Device

Force Control

  • Dynamic Control of a Rigid Pneumatic Gripper
  • A Control Framework Definition to Overcome Position/Interaction Dynamics Uncertainties in Force-Controlled Tasks
  • Identification of Compliant Contact Parameters and Admittance Force Modulation on a Non-Stationary Compliant Surface
  • Convex Controller Synthesis for Robot Contact
  • Force Adaptation in Contact Tasks with Dynamical Systems
  • Sensitivity Ellipsoids for Force Control of Magnetic Robots with Localization Uncertainty (I)

Semantic Scene Understanding

  • Highly Parallelizable Plane Extraction for Organized Point Clouds Using Spherical Convex Hulls
  • Boosting Real-Time Driving Scene Parsing with Shared Semantics
  • CNN-Based Lidar Point Cloud De-Noising in Adverse Weather
  • View-Invariant Loop Closure with Oriented Semantic Landmarks
  • Semantic Foreground Inpainting from Weak Supervision
  • Fast Panoptic Segmentation Network
  • Weakly Supervised Silhouette-Based Semantic Scene Change Detection
  • 3DCFS: Fast and Robust Joint 3D Semantic-Instance Segmentation Via Coupled Feature Selection
  • Who2com: Collaborative Perception Via Learnable Handshake Communication
  • Comparing View-Based and Map-Based Semantic Labelling in Real-Time SLAM
  • Generative Modeling of Environments with Scene Grammars and Variational Inference
  • SHOP-VRB: A Visual Reasoning Benchmark for Object Perception

Social Human-Robot Interaction

  • Simultaneous Learning from Human Pose and Object Cues for Real-Time Activity Recognition
  • Demonstration of Hospital Receptionist Robot with Extended Hybrid Code Network
  • Can I Trust You? a User Study of Robot Mediation of a Support Group
  • Group Split and Merge Prediction with 3D Convolutional Networks
  • TH�R: Human-Robot Navigation Data Collection and Accurate Motion Trajectories Dataset
  • Socially Assistive Infant-Robot Interaction: Using Robots to Encourage Infant Leg-Motion (I)

  • Real-Time Continuous Hand Motion Myoelectric Decoding by Automated Data Labeling

  • Towards Proactive Navigation: A Pedestrian-Vehicle Cooperation Based Behavioral Model
  • Studying Navigation As a Form of Interaction: A Design Approach for Social Robot Navigation Methods
  • Robot Plan Model Generation and Execution with Natural Language Interface
  • Mapless Navigation among Dynamics with Social-Safety-Awareness: A Reinforcement Learning Approach from 2D Laser Scans
  • People’s Adaptive Side-By-Side Model Evolved to Accompany Groups of People by Social Robots

Biologically-Inspired Robots

  • Coronal Plane Spine Twisting Composes Shape to Adjust the Energy Landscape for Grounded Reorientation
  • Significance of the Compliance of the Joints on the Dynamic Slip Resistance of a Bioinspired Hoof (I)

  • Motion Design for a Snake Robot Negotiating Complicated Pipe Structures of a Constant Diameter

  • A Neuro-Inspired Computational Model for a Visually Guided Robotic Lamprey Using Frame and Event Based Cameras
  • Untethered Flight of an At-Scale Dual-Motor Hummingbird Robot with Bio-Inspired Decoupled Wings
  • Model-Based Feedback Control of Live Zebrafish Behavior Via Interaction with a Robotic Replica (I)
  • Steering Control of Magnetic Helical Swimmers in Swirling Flows Due to Confinement
  • Sim2real Gap Is Non-Monotonic with Robot Complexity for Morphology-In-The-Loop Flapping Wing Design
  • A Linearized Model for an Ornithopter in Gliding Flight: Experiments and Simulations
  • Towards Biomimicry of a Bat-Style Perching Maneuver on Structures: The Manipulation of Inertial Dynamics
  • Bioinspired Object Motion Filters As the Basis of Obstacle Negotiation in Micro Aerial Systems
  • Design and Architecture of ARCSnake: Archimedes’ Screw-Propelled Serpentine Robot

Robotics in Agriculture, Construction and Mining

  • GPR-Based Subsurface Object Detection and Reconstruction Using Random Motion and DepthNet
  • A Data-Driven Approach to Prediction and Optimal Bucket-Filling Control for Autonomous Excavators
  • Real-Time Stereo Visual Servoing for Rose Pruning with Robotic Arm
  • Canopy-Based Monte Carlo Localization in Orchards Using Top-View Imagery
  • In-Field Grape Cluster Size Assessment for Vine Yield Estimation Using a Mobile Robot and a Consumer Level RGB-D Camera
  • Autonomous Excavation of Rocks Using a Gaussian Process Model and Unscented Kalman Filter

Kinematics

  • Slip-Limiting Controller for Redundant Line-Suspended Robots: Application to LineRanger
  • Interval Search Genetic Algorithm Based on Trajectory to Solve Inverse Kinematics of Redundant Manipulators and Its Application
  • Analytical Expressions of Serial Manipulator Jacobians and Their High-Order Derivatives Based on Lie Theory
  • Inverse Kinematics for Serial Kinematic Chains Via Sum of Squares Optimization
  • Multi-Task Closed-Loop Inverse Kinematics Stability through Semidefinite Programming
  • Stable-By-Design Kinematic Control Based on Optimization (I)

Robot Safety

  • Securing Industrial Operators with Collaborative Robots: Simulation and Experimental Validation for a Carpentry Task
  • Learning Shape-Based Representation for Visual Localization in Extremely Changing Conditions
  • Trajectory Planning with Safety Guaranty for a Multirotor Based on the Forward and Backward Reachability Analysis
  • A Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability-Based Framework for Predicting and Analyzing Human Motion for Safe Planning
  • Enhancing Privacy in Robotics Via Judicious Sensor Selection
  • Robust Model Predictive Shielding for Safe Reinforcement Learning with Stochastic Dynamics

Swarms

  • Segregation of Heterogeneous Swarms of Robots in Curves
  • A Fast, Accurate, and Scalable Probabilistic Sample-Based Approach for Counting Swarm Size
  • Bayes Bots: Collective Bayesian Decision-Making in Decentralized Robot Swarms
  • Supervisory Control of Robot Swarms Using Public Events
  • Planetary Exploration with Robot Teams (I)

  • Statistics-Based Automated Control for a Swarm of Paramagnetic Nanoparticles in 2D Space (I)

Simulation and Animation

  • Automatic Tool for Gazebo World Construction: From a Grayscale Image to a 3D Solid Model
  • A ROS Gazebo Plugin to Simulate ARVA Sensors
  • Is That a Chair? Imagining Affordances Using Simulations of an Articulated Human Body
  • Toward Sim-To-Real Directional Semantic Grasping
  • Learning to Collaborate from Simulation for Robot-Assisted Dressing
  • Realtime Simulation of Thin-Shell Deformable Materials Using CNN-Based Mesh Embedding

Reinforcement Learning for Robotics

  • Dynamic Actor-Advisor Programming for Scalable Safe Reinforcement Learning
  • Discrete Deep Reinforcement Learning for Mapless Navigation
  • Learning Multi-Robot Decentralized Macro-Action-Based Policies Via a Centralized Q-Net
  • Robust Model-Free Reinforcement Learning with Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization
  • Motor Synergy Development in High-Performing Deep Reinforcement Learning Algorithms
  • Barrier-Certified Adaptive Reinforcement Learning with Applications to Brushbot Navigation (I)

  • On Simple Reactive Neural Networks for Behaviour-Based Reinforcement Learning

  • Predicting Optimal Value Functions by Interpolating Reward Functions in Scalarized Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning
  • Integrated Moment-Based LGMD and Deep Reinforcement Learning for UAV Obstacle Avoidance
  • Interactive Reinforcement Learning with Inaccurate Feedback
  • Guided Uncertainty-Aware Policy Optimization: Combining Model-Free and Model-Based Strategies for Sample-Efficient Learning
  • High-Speed Autonomous Drifting with Deep Reinforcement Learning

Manipulation Planning

  • Non-Prehensile Manipulation in Clutter with Human-In-The-Loop
  • PuzzleFlex: Kinematic Motion of Chains with Loose Joints
  • Accurate Vision-Based Manipulation through Contact Reasoning
  • A Probabilistic Framework for Constrained Manipulations and Task and Motion Planning under Uncertainty
  • Planning with Selective Physics-Based Simulation for Manipulation among Movable Objects
  • Hybrid Differential Dynamic Programming for Planar Manipulation Primitives
  • Human-Like Planning for Reaching in Cluttered Environments
  • Where to Relocate?: Object Rearrangement Inside Cluttered and Confined Environments for Robotic Manipulation
  • Autonomous Modification of Unstructured Environments with Found Material
  • Tethered Tool Manipulation Planning with Cable Maneuvering
  • Optimization-Based Posture Generation for Whole-Body Contact Motion by Contact Point Search on the Body Surface
  • Real-Time Conflict Resolution of Task-Constrained Manipulator Motion in Unforeseen Dynamic Environments (I)

Contact Modeling

  • Interaction Stability Analysis from the Input-Output Viewpoints
  • Improving the Contact Instant Detection of Sensing Antennae Using a Super-Twisting Algorithm
  • 6DFC: Efficiently Planning Soft Non-Planar Area Contact Grasps Using 6D Friction Cones
  • Long-Horizon Prediction and Uncertainty Propagation with Residual Point Contact Learners
  • Versatile Trajectory Optimization Using a LCP Wheel Model for Dynamic Vehicle Maneuvers
  • A Transition-Aware Method for the Simulation of Compliant Contact with Regularized Friction

Robotics in Hazardous Fields

  • Single Actuator Peristaltic Robot for Subsurface Exploration and Device Emplacement
  • Improving Visual Feature Extraction in Glacial Environments
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Based Hazardous Materials Response: Information-Theoretic Hazardous Source Search and Reconstruction (I)

  • Planning Maximum-Manipulability Cutting Paths

  • Robot Risk-Awareness by Formal Risk Reasoning and Planning
  • Experimental Evaluation and Characterization of Radioactive Source Effects on Robot Visual Localization and Mapping

Dynamics

  • Dynamic Modeling of Robotic Manipulators for Accuracy Evaluation
  • A Real-Robot Dataset for Assessing Transferability of Learned Dynamics Models
  • MagNet: Discovering Multi-Agent Interaction Dynamics Using Neural Network
  • Modulation of Robot Orientation State Via Leg-Obstacle Contact Positions
  • Beyond Basins of Attraction: Quantifying Robustness of Natural Dynamics (I)

  • Stable Parking Control of a Robot Astronaut in a Space Station Based on Human Dynamics (I)

Product Design, Development and Prototyping

  • Development of a Robotic System for Automated Decaking of 3D-Printed Parts
  • A Novel Solar Tracker Driven by Waves: From Idea to Implementation
  • Design and Implementation of Hydraulic-Cable Driven Manipulator for Disaster Response Operation
  • Designs for an Expressive Mechatronic Chordophone
  • Multi Directional Piezoelectric Plate Energy Harvesters Designed by Topology Optimization Algorithm
  • OmBURo: A Novel Unicycle Robot with Active Omnidirectional Wheel

Cellular and Modular Robots

  • Self-Reconfiguration in Response to Faults in Modular Aerial Systems
  • Recognition and Reconfiguration of Lattice-Based Cellular Structures by Simple Robots
  • A Fast Configuration Space Algorithm for Variable Topology Truss Modular Robots
  • ModQuad-DoF: A Novel Yaw Actuation for Modular Quadrotors
  • An Actuation Fault Tolerance Approach to Reconfiguration Planning of Modular Self-Folding Robots
  • Parallel Permutation for Linear Full-Resolution Reconfiguration of Heterogeneous Sliding-Only Cubic Modular Robots

Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking

  • Determining and Improving the Localization Accuracy of AprilTag Detection
  • Change of Optimal Values: A Pre-Calculated Metric
  • A Flexible Method for Performance Evaluation of Robot Localization
  • Quantifying Good Seamanship for Autonomous Surface Vessel Performance Evaluation
  • Action-Conditioned Benchmarking of Robotic Video Prediction Models: A Comparative Study
  • Performance Indicators for Wheeled Robots Traversing Obstacles

Aerial Systems: Applications

  • A Morphable Aerial-Aquatic Quadrotor with Coupled Symmetric Thrust Vectoring
  • An Autonomous Intercept Drone with Image-Based Visual Servo
  • Real-Time Optimal Trajectory Generation and Control of a Multi-Rotor with a Suspended Load for Obstacle Avoidance
  • Wildfire Fighting by Unmanned Aerial System Exploiting Its Time-Varying Mass
  • On the Human Control of a Multiple Quadcopters with a Cable-Suspended Payload System
  • Dronument: System for Reliable Deployment of Micro Aerial Vehicles in Dark Areas of Large Historical Monuments
  • Robust Real-Time UAV Replanning Using Guided Gradient-Based Optimization and Topological Paths
  • Learning-Based Path Planning for Autonomous Exploration of Subterranean Environments
  • Visual-Inertial Telepresence for Aerial Manipulation
  • Distributed Rotor-Based Vibration Suppression for Flexible Object Transport and Manipulation
  • Aerial Manipulation Using Model Predictive Control for Opening a Hinged Door
  • Integrated Motion Planner for Real-Time Aerial Videography with a Drone in a Dense Environment
  • Stable Control in Climbing and Descending Flight under Upper Walls Using Ceiling Effect Model Based on Aerodynamics
  • Motion Primitives-Based Path Planning for Fast and Agile Exploration Using Aerial Robots
  • Unsupervised Anomaly Detection for Self-Flying Delivery Drones
  • Keyfilter-Aware Real-Time UAV Object Tracking
  • Aerial Regrasping: Pivoting with Transformable Multilink Aerial Robot
  • Grounding Language to Landmarks in Arbitrary Outdoor Environments

Learning and Adaptive Systems

  • MANGA: Method Agnostic Neural-Policy Generalization and Adaptation
  • Fast Adaptation of Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Navigation Skills to Human Preference
  • Model-Based Generalization under Parameter Uncertainty Using Path Integral Control
  • Memory of Motion for Warm-Starting Trajectory Optimization
  • Safety Augmented Value Estimation from Demonstrations (SAVED): Safe Deep Model-Based RL for Sparse Cost Robotic Tasks
  • Variational Inference with Mixture Model Approximation for Applications in Robotics
  • Preference-Based Learning for Exoskeleton Gait Optimization
  • Adaptive Neural Trajectory Tracking Control for Flexible-Joint Robots with Online Learning
  • BiCF: Learning Bidirectional Incongruity-Aware Correlation Filter for Efficient UAV Object Tracking
  • Adaptive Unknown Object Rearrangement Using Low-Cost Tabletop Robot
  • Unsupervised Learning and Exploration of Reachable Outcome Space
  • Context-Aware Cost Shaping to Reduce the Impact of Model Error in Safe, Receding Horizon Control
  • Context-Aware Task Execution Using Apprenticeship Learning
  • Hierarchical Interest-Driven Associative Goal Babbling for Efficient Bootstrapping of Sensorimotor Skills
  • Robot-Supervised Learning for Object Segmentation
  • Gradient and Log-Based Active Learning for Semantic Segmentation of Crop and Weed for Agricultural Robots
  • Learning How to Walk: Warm-Starting Optimal Control Solver with Memory of Motion
  • Feedback Linearization for Unknown Systems Via Reinforcement Learning
  • Long-Term Robot Navigation in Indoor Environments Estimating Patterns in Traversability Changes
  • Sample-And-Computation-Efficient Probabilistic Model Predictive Control with Random Features
  • Sample-Efficient Robot Motion Learning Using Gaussian Process Latent Variable Models
  • Iterative Learning Based Feedforward Control for Transition of a Biplane-Quadrotor Tailsitter UAS
  • Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Illumination with X-Rays
  • Efficient Updates for Data Association with Mixtures of Gaussian Processes

Surgical Robotics: Laparascopy I

  • Hand-Eye Calibration of Surgical Instrument for Robotic Surgery Using Interactive Manipulation
  • Real-Time Data Driven Precision Estimator for RAVEN-II Surgical Robot End Effector Position
  • Vision-Based Dynamic Virtual Fixtures for Tools Collision Avoidance in Robotic Surgery
  • An Experimental Comparison towards Autonomous Camera Navigation to Optimize Training in Robot Assisted Surgery
  • Temporal Segmentation of Surgical Sub-Tasks through Deep Learning with Multiple Data Sources
  • Controlling Assistive Robots with Learned Latent Actions

Surgical Robotics: Laparoscopy II

  • SuPer: A Surgical Perception Framework for Endoscopic Tissue Manipulation with Surgical Robotics
  • Multi-Task Recurrent Neural Network for Surgical Gesture Recognition and Progress Prediction
  • Neural Network Based Inverse Dynamics Identification and External Force Estimation on the Da Vinci Research Kit
  • Visual Servo of a 6-DOF Robotic Stereo Flexible Endoscope Based on Da Vinci Research Kit (dVRK) System
  • Reflective-AR Display: An Interaction Methodology for Virtual-To-Real Alignment in Medical Robotics

Surgical Robotics: Steerable Catheters/Needles

  • Aortic 3D Deformation Reconstruction Using 2D X-Ray Fluoroscopy and 3D Pre-Operative Data for Endovascular Interventions
  • Design and Kinematic Modeling of a Novel Steerable Needle for Image-Guided Insertion
  • Robotic Needle Insertion in Moving Soft Tissues Using Constraint-Based Inverse Finite Element Simulation
  • Collaborative Robot-Assisted Endovascular Catheterization withGenerative Adversarial Imitation Learning
  • A Novel Sensing Method to Detect Tissue Boundaries During Robotic Needle Insertion Based on Laser Doppler Flowmetry
  • GA3C Reinforcement Learning for Surgical Steerable Catheter Path Planning

Path Planning for Multiple Mobile Robots or Agents

  • Online Trajectory Generation with Distributed Model Predictive Control for Multi-Robot Motion Planning
  • One-Shot Multi-Path Planning for Robotic Applications Using Fully Convolutional Networks
  • Walk, Stop, Count, and Swap: Decentralized Multi-Agent Path Finding with Theoretical Guarantees
  • Efficient Iterative Linear-Quadratic Approximations for Nonlinear Multi-Player General-Sum Differential Games
  • Online Motion Planning for Deforming Maneuvering and Manipulation by Multilinked Aerial Robot Based on Differential Kinematics
  • DDM: Fast Near-Optimal Multi-Robot Path Planning Using Diversified-Path and Optimal Sub-Problem Solution Database Heuristics
  • UBAT: On Jointly Optimizing UAV Trajectories and Placement of Battery Swap Stations
  • Efficient Multi-Agent Trajectory Planning with Feasibility Guarantee Using Relative Bernstein Polynomial
  • Optimal Sequential Task Assignment and Path Finding for Multi-Agent Robotic Assembly Planning
  • Cooperative Multi-Robot Navigation in Dynamic Environment with Deep Reinforcement Learning
  • Adaptive Directional Path Planner for Real-Time, Energy-Efficient, Robust Navigation of Mobile Robots
  • Distributed State Estimation Using Intermittently Connected Robot Networks (I)

Optimization and Optimal Control

  • Whole-Body Motion Tracking for a Quadruped-On-Wheel Robot Via a Compact-Form Controller with Improved Prioritized Optimization
  • Optimal Control of an Energy-Recycling Actuator for Mobile Robotics Applications
  • Real-Time Nonlinear Model Predictive Control of Robots Using a Graphics Processing Unit
  • An NMPC Approach Using Convex Inner Approximations for Online Motion Planning with Guaranteed Collision Avoidance
  • Multi-Contact Heavy Object Pushing with a Centaur-Type Humanoid Robot: Planning and Control for a Real Demonstrator
  • Hierarchical Stochastic Optimization with Application to Parameter Tuning for Electronically Controlled Transmissions
  • Targeted Drug Delivery: Algorithmic Methods for Collecting a Swarm of Particles with Uniform, External Forces
  • Virtual Point Control Strategy with Power Optimization for Trajectory Planning of Autonomous Mobile Robots
  • Enhancing Bilevel Optimization for UAV Time-Optimal Trajectoryusing a Duality Gap Approach
  • Constrained Sampling-Based Trajectory Optimization Using StochasticApproximation
  • Learning Control Policies from Optimal Trajectories
  • Crocoddyl: An Efficient and Versatile Framework for Multi-Contact Optimal Control
  • Path-Following Model Predictive Control of Ballbots
  • Underactuated Waypoint Trajectory Optimization for Light Painting Photography
  • Whole-Body Walking Generation Using Contact Parametrization: A Non-Linear Trajectory Optimization Approach
  • Controlling Fast Height Variation of an Actively Articulated Wheeled Humanoid Robot Using Center of Mass Trajectory
  • Contact-Aware Controller Design for Complementarity Systems
  • Trajectory Optimization of Robots with Regenerative Drive Systems: Numerical and Experimental Results (I)
  • Exploiting Sparsity in Robot Trajectory Optimization with Direct Collocation and Geometric Algorithms
  • Bi-Convex Approximation of Non-Holonomic Trajectory Optimization
  • Fast, Versatile, and Open-Loop Stable Running Behaviors with Proprioceptive-Only Sensing Using Model-Based Optimization
  • Wasserstein Distributionally Robust Motion Planning and Control with Safety Constraints Using Conditional Value-At-Risk
  • One Robot for Many Tasks: Versatile Co-Design through Stochastic Programming
  • Inverse Optimal Control for Multiphase Cost Functions (I)

Grasping

  • Action Image Representation: Learning Deep Grasping Policies with Zero Real World Data
  • High Accuracy and Efficiency Grasp Pose Detection Scheme with Dense Predictions
  • Transferable Active Grasping and Real Embodied Dataset
  • PointNet++ Grasping: Learning an End-To-End Spatial Grasp Generation Algorithm from Sparse Point Clouds
  • UniGrasp: Learning a Unified Model to Grasp with Multifingered Robotic Hands
  • Grasp for Stacking Via Deep Reinforcement Learning
  • CAGE: Context-Aware Grasping Engine
  • Time Optimal Motion Planning and Admittance Control for Cooperative Grasping
  • Jamming-Free Immobilizing Grasps Using Dual-Friction Robotic Fingertips
  • Force-Guided High-Precision Grasping Control of Fragile and Deformable Objects Using sEMG-Based Force Prediction
  • Grasp It Like a Pro: Grasp of Unknown Objects with Robotic Hands Based on Skilled Human Expertise
  • Learning to Generate 6-DoF Grasp Poses with Reachability Awareness
  • Enhancing Grasp Pose Computation in Gripper Workspace Spheres
  • Minimal Work: A Grasp Quality Metric for Deformable Hollow Objects
  • Hierarchical 6-DoF Grasping with Approaching Direction Selection
  • Geometric Characterization of Two-Finger Basket Grasps of 2-D Objects: Contact Space Formulation
  • A Multi-Level Optimization Framework for Simultaneous Grasping and Motion Planning
  • Grasping Fragile Objects Using a Stress-Minimization Metric
  • Grasp Control for Enhancing Dexterity of Parallel Grippers
  • Theoretical Derivation and Realization of Adaptive Grasping Based on Rotational Incipient Slip Detection
  • Grasp State Assessment of Deformable Objects Using Visual-Tactile Fusion Perception
  • Beyond Top-Grasps through Scene Completion
  • Dex-Net AR: Distributed Deep Grasp Planning Using a Commodity Cellphone and Augmented Reality App

Omnidirectional Vision

  • OmniSLAM: Omnidirectional Localization and Dense Mapping for Wide-Baseline Multi-Camera Systems
  • What’s in My Room? Object Recognition on Indoor Panoramic Images
  • FisheyeDistanceNet: Self-Supervised Scale-Aware Distance Estimation Using Monocular Fisheye Camera for Autonomous Driving
  • 360SD-Net: 360° Stereo Depth Estimation with Learnable Cost Volume
  • Omnidirectional Depth Extension Networks
  • 3D Orientation Estimation and Vanishing Point Extraction from Single Panoramas Using Convolutional Neural Network

Force and Tactile Sensing

  • Low-Cost GelSight with UV Markings: Feature Extraction of Objects Using AlexNet and Optical Flow without 3D Image Reconstruction
  • Evaluation of Non-Collocated Force Feedback Driven by Signal-Independent Noise
  • Vibration-Based Multi-Axis Force Sensing: Design, Characterization, and Modeling
  • Tactile Sensing Based on Fingertip Suction Flow for Submerged Dexterous Manipulation
  • Discrete Bimanual Manipulation for Wrench Balancing
  • Shear, Torsion and Pressure Tactile Sensor Via Plastic Optofiber Guided Imaging
  • Dynamically Reconfigurable Tactile Sensor for Robotic Manipulation
  • NeuroTac: A Neuromorphic Optical Tactile Sensor Applied to Texture Recognition
  • Reducing Uncertainty in Pose Estimation under Complex Contacts Via Force Forecast
  • Comparison of Constrained and Unconstrained Human Grasp Forces Using Fingernail Imaging and Visual Servoing
  • An ERT-Based Robotic Skin with Sparsely Distributed Electrodes: Structure, Fabrication, and DNN-Based Signal Processing
  • FBG-Based Triaxial Force Sensor Integrated with an Eccentrically Configured Imaging Probe for Endoluminal Optical Biopsy
  • Calibrating a Soft ERT-Based Tactile Sensor with a Multiphysics Model and Sim-To-Real Transfer Learning
  • Sim-To-Real Transfer for Optical Tactile Sensing
  • Semi-Empirical Simulation of Learned Force Response Models for Heterogeneous Elastic Objects
  • Low-Cost Fiducial-Based 6-Axis Force-Torque Sensor
  • Curvature Sensing with a Spherical Tactile Sensor Based on the Color-Interference of a Marker Array
  • Center-Of-Mass-Based Robust Grasp Planning for Unknown Objects Using Tactile-Visual Sensors
  • OmniTact: A Multi-Directional High-Resolution Touch Sensor
  • Highly Sensitive Bio-Inspired Sensor for Fine Surface Exploration and Characterization
  • Implementing Tactile and Proximity Sensing for Crack Detection
  • Novel Proximity Sensor for Realizing Tactile Sense in Suction Cups

Visual-Based Navigation

  • Exploring Performance Bounds of Visual Place Recognition Using Extended Precision
  • Deep Reinforcement Learning for Instruction Following Visual Navigation in 3D Maze-Like Environments
  • Aggressive Perception-Aware Navigation Using Deep Optical Flow Dynamics and PixelMPC
  • Visual-Inertial Mapping with Non-Linear Factor Recovery
  • Interactive Gibson Benchmark: A Benchmark for Interactive Navigation in Cluttered Environments
  • Highly Robust Visual Place Recognition through Spatial Matching of CNN Features
  • Robust and Efficient Estimation of Absolute Camera Pose for Monocular Visual Odometry
  • Robust Vision-Based Obstacle Avoidance for Micro Aerial Vehicles in Dynamic Environments
  • Proximity Estimation Using Vision Features Computed on Sensor
  • Efficient Globally-Optimal Correspondence-Less Visual Odometry for Planar Ground Vehicles
  • EgoTEB: Egocentric, Perception Space Navigation Using Timed-Elastic-Bands
  • Graduated Non-Convexity for Robust Spatial Perception: From Non-Minimal Solvers to Global Outlier Rejection
  • Reliable Frame-To-Frame Motion Estimation for Vehicle-Mounted Surround-View Camera Systems
  • Enabling Topological Planning with Monocular Vision
  • DeepMEL: Compiling Visual Multi-Experience Localization into a Deep Neural Network
  • SnapNav: Learning Mapless Visual Navigationwith Sparse Directional Guidance and Visual Reference
  • Kimera: An Open-Source Library for Real-Time Metric-Semantic Localization and Mapping
  • CityLearn: Diverse Real-World Environments for Sample-Efficient Navigation Policy Learning
  • Constrained Filtering-Based Fusion of Images, Events, and Inertial Measurements for Pose Estimation
  • Schmidt-EKF-Based Visual-Inertial Moving Object Tracking
  • Learning View and Target Invariant Visual Servoing for Navigation
  • Tightly-Coupled Single-Anchor Ultra-Wideband-Aided Monocular Visual Odometry System
  • Scaling Local Control to Large-Scale Topological Navigation
  • Zero-Shot Imitation Learning from Demonstrations for Legged Robot Visual Navigation

Soft Robot Applications

  • High Resolution Soft Tactile Interface for Physical Human-Robot Interaction
  • Learning-Based Fingertip Force Estimation for Soft Wearable Hand Robot with Tendon-Sheath Mechanism
  • Autonomous and Reversible Adhesion Using Elastomeric Suction Cups for In-Vivo Medical Treatments
  • Design of an Inflatable Wrinkle Actuator with Fast Inflation/Deflation Responses for Wearable Suits
  • Design and Validation of a Soft Ankle-Foot Orthosis Exosuit for Inversion and Eversion Support
  • Vine Robots: Design, Teleoperation, and Deployment for Navigation and Exploration (I)
  • Pressure-Driven Manipulator with Variable Stiffness Structure
  • 3D Electromagnetic Reconfiguration Enabled by Soft Continuum Robots
  • VaLeNS: Design of a Novel Variable Length Nested Soft Arm
  • A Programmably Compliant Origami Mechanism for Dynamically Dexterous Robots
  • Human Interface for Teleoperated Object Manipulation with a Soft Growing Robot

Prosthetics and Exoskeletons

  • A Closed-Loop and Ergonomic Control for Prosthetic Wrist Rotation
  • Comparison of Online Algorithms for the Tracking of Multiple Magnetic Targets in a Myokinetic Control Interface
  • SIMPA: Soft-Grasp Infant Myoelectric Prosthetic Arm
  • Backdrivable and Fully-Portable Pneumatic Back Support Exoskeleton for Lifting Assistance
  • Clinical Readiness of a Myoelectric Postural Control Algorithm for Persons with Transradial Amputation (I)
  • Force Control of SEA-Based Exoskeletons for Multimode Human-Robot Interactions (I)

  • Velocity Field Based Active-Assistive Control for Upper Limb Rehabilitation Exoskeleton Robot

  • Design, Development and Control of a Tendon-Actuated Exoskeleton for Wrist Rehabilitation and Training
  • Impedance Control of a Transfemoral Prosthesis Using Continuously Varying Ankle Impedances and Multiple Equilibria
  • Towards Variable Assistance for Lower Body Exoskeletons
  • Offline Assistance Optimization of a Soft Exosuit for Augmenting Ankle Power of Stroke Survivors During Walking
  • Gait Patterns Generation Based on Basis Functions Interpolation for the TWIN Lower-Limb Exoskeleton
  • Modulating Hip Stiffness with a Robotic Exoskeleton Immediately Changes Gait
  • Swing-Assist for Enhancing Stair Ambulation in a Primarily-Passive Knee Prosthesis
  • Proof-Of-Concept of a Pneumatic Ankle Foot Orthosis Powered by a Custom Compressor for Drop Foot Correction
  • Knowledge-Guided Reinforcement Learning Control for Robotic Lower Limb Prosthesis
  • Development of a Twisted String Actuator-Based Exoskeleton for Hip Joint Assistance in Lifting Tasks
  • A Novel Portable Lower Limb Exoskeleton for Gravity Compensation During Walking

Human-Centered Robotics

  • Human-Centric Active Perception for Autonomous Observation
  • Prediction of Human Full-Body Movements with Motion Optimization and Recurrent Neural Networks
  • Predicting and Optimizing Ergonomics in Physical Human-Robot Cooperation Tasks
  • Active Reward Learning for Co-Robotic Vision Based Exploration in Bandwidth Limited Environments
  • Characterizing User Responses to Failures in Aerial Autonomous Systems
  • VariPath: A Database for Modelling the Variance of Human Pathways in Manual and HRC Processes with Heavy-Duty Robots
  • Congestion-Aware Evacuation Routing Using Augmented Reality Devices
  • Human-Robot Interaction for Robotic Manipulator Programming in Mixed Reality
  • Heart Rate Sensing with a Robot Mounted mmWave Radar
  • VibeRo: Vibrotactile Stiffness Perception Interface for Virtual Reality
  • Detachable Body: The Impact of Binocular Disparity and Vibrotactile Feedback in Co-Presence Tasks
  • Prediction of Gait Cycle Percentage Using Instrumented Shoes with Artificial Neural Networks
  • Perception-Action Coupling in Usage of Telepresence Cameras
  • A Technical Framework for Human-Like Motion Generation with Autonomous Anthropomorphic Redundant Manipulators
  • Real-Time Adaptive Assembly Scheduling in Human-Multi-Robot Collaboration According to Human Capability
  • Microscope-Guided Autonomous Clear Corneal Incision
  • A Haptic Interface for the Teleoperation of Extensible Continuum Manipulators
  • From Crowd Simulation to Robot Navigation in Crowds
  • Are We There Yet? Comparing Remote Learning Technologies in the University Classroom
  • Bilateral Haptic Collaboration for Human-Robot Cooperative Tasks
  • A Surgeon-Robot Shared Control for Ergonomic Pedicle Screw Fixation
  • Improving Robotic Cooking Using Batch Bayesian Optimization
  • Adaptive Motion Planning for a Collaborative Robot Based on Prediction Uncertainty to Enhance Human Safety and Work Efficiency (I)

Mechanism Design

  • Quadrupedal Locomotion on Uneven Terrain with Sensorized Feet
  • Exploiting Singular Configurations for Controllable, Low-Power, Friction Enhancement on Unmanned Ground Vehicles
  • Flow Compensation for Hydraulic Direct-Drive System with a Single-Rod Cylinder Applied to Biped Humanoid Robot
  • Development of Visible Manipulator with Multi-Gear Array Mechanism for Laparoscopic Surgery
  • Mechanically Programmed Miniature Origami Grippers
  • Design of a Novel Multiple-DOF Extendable Arm with Rigid Components Inspired by a Deployable Origami Structure
  • A Compact and Low-Cost Robotic Manipulator Driven by Supercoiled Polymer Actuators
  • A Wall-Mounted Robot Arm Equipped with a 4-DOF Yaw-Pitch-Yaw-Pitch Counterbalance Mechanism
  • Internally-Balanced Magnetic Mechanisms Using a Magnetic Spring for Producing a Large Amplified Clamping Force
  • A Continuum Manipulator with Closed-Form Inverse Kinematics and Independently Tunable Stiffness
  • Shape-Morphing Wheel Mechanism for Step Climbing in High Speed Locomotion
  • Design and Compensation Control of a Flexible Instrument for Endoscopic Surgery
  • Steerable Burrowing Robot: Design, Modeling and Experiments
  • High Force Density Gripping with UV Activation and Sacrificial Adhesion
  • Stiffness Optimization of a Cable Driven Parallel Robot for Additive Manufacturing
  • CAMI - Analysis, Design and Realization of a Force-Compliant Variable Cam System
  • Using Manipulation to Enable Adaptive Ground Mobility
  • SNIAE-SSE Deformation Mechanism Enabled Scalable Multicopter: Design, Modeling and Flight Performance Validation

Marine Robotics

  • Distance and Steering Heuristics for Streamline-Based Flow Field Planning
  • Enhancing Coral Reef Monitoring Utilizing a Deep Semi-Supervised Learning Approach
  • DOB-Net: Actively Rejecting Unknown Excessive Time-Varying Disturbances
  • Demonstration of Autonomous Nested Search for Local Maxima Using an Unmanned Underwater Vehicle
  • Towards Distortion Based Underwater Domed Viewport Camera Calibration
  • A Flapped Paddle-Fin for Improving Underwater Propulsive Efficiency of Oscillatory Actuation
  • Bio-Inspired Tensegrity Fish Robot
  • A Hybrid Underwater Manipulator System with Intuitive Muscle-Level sEMG Mapping Control
  • Single-Hydrophone Low-Cost Underwater Vehicle Swarming
  • 2D Estimation of Velocity Relative to Water and Tidal Currents Based on Differential Pressure for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
  • Multi-Sensor Mapping for Low Contrast, Quasi-Dynamic, Large Objects
  • Gaussian-Dirichlet Random Fields for Inference Over High Dimensional Categorical Observations
  • Cooperative Autonomy and Data Fusion for Underwater Surveillance with Networked AUVs
  • Bidirectional Resonant Propulsion and Localization for AUVs
  • Hierarchical Planning in Time-Dependent Flow Fields for Marine Robots
  • Navigation in the Presence of Obstacles for an Agile Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
  • Underwater Image Super-Resolution Using Deep Residual Multipliers
  • Nonlinear Synchronization Control for Short-Range Mobile Sensors Drifting in Geophysical Flows

Compliant Joint/Mechanism

  • Energy-Based Safety in Series Elastic Actuation
  • Safe High Impedance Control of a Series-Elastic Actuator with a Disturbance Observer
  • Variable Stiffness Springs for Energy Storage Applications
  • Parallel-Motion Thick Origami Structure for Robotic Design
  • Gyroscopic Tensegrity Robots

Search and Rescue Robots

  • Real-Time Simulation of Non-Deformable Continuous Tracks with Explicit Consideration of Friction and Grouser Geometry
  • Test Your SLAM! the SubT-Tunnel Dataset and Metric for Mapping
  • Uncertainty Measured Markov Decision Process in Dynamic Environments
  • A Minimally Actuated Reconfigurable Continuous Track Robot
  • Cooperative Mapping and Target Search Over an Unknown Occupancy Graph Using Mutual Information
  • Flexible Disaster Response of Tomorrow - Final Presentation and Evaluation of the CENTAURO System (I)

Human Detection and Tracking

  • Natural Scene Facial Expression Recognitionwith Dimension Reduction Network
  • Hand Pose Estimation for Hand-Object Interaction Cases Using Augmented Autoencoder
  • Accurate Detection and 3D Localization of Humans Using a Novel YOLO-Based RGB-D Fusion Approach and Synthetic Training Data
  • Pedestrian Planar LiDAR Pose (PPLP) Network for Oriented Pedestrian Detection Based on Planar LiDAR and Monocular Images
  • Wide-Range Load Sensor Using Vacuum Sealed Quartz Crystal Resonator for Simultaneous Biosignals Measurement on Bed
  • Joint Pedestrian Detection and Risk-Level Prediction with Motion-Representation-By-Detection

Omnidirectional Vision and Audition

  • Robust Sound Source Localization Considering Similarity of Back-Propagation Signals
  • BatVision: Learning to See 3D Spatial Layout with Two Ears
  • Self-Supervised Learning for Alignment of Objects and Sound
  • Variational Fisheye Stereo
  • The OmniScape Dataset
  • Corners for Layout: End-To-End Layout Recovery from 360 Images

Hydraulic/Pneumatic Actuators

  • How Far Are Pneumatic Artificial Muscles from Biological Muscles?

  • Optically Sensorized Elastomer Air Chamber for Proprioceptive Sensing of Soft Pneumatic Actuator

  • A Compact McKibben Muscle Based Bending Actuator for Close-To-Body Application in Assistive Wearable Robots
  • Proposal and Prototyping of Self-Excited Pneumatic Actuator Using Automatic-Flow-Path-Switching-Mechanism
  • Development of Backdrivable Servovalve with Feedback Spring for Enhanced Electro-Hydraulic Torque Actuator
  • Passivity-Based Robust Compliance Control of Electro-Hydraulic Robot Manipulators with Joint Angle Limit

Service Robots

  • Shared Control Templates for Assistive Robotics
  • Enabling Robots to Understand Incomplete Natural Language Instructions Using Commonsense Reasoning
  • A Holistic Approach in Designing Tabletop Robot’s Expressivity
  • DirtNet: Visual Dirt Detection for Autonomous Cleaning Robots
  • Semantic Linking Maps for Active Visual Object Search
  • ALTER-EGO: A Mobile Robot with Functionally Anthropomorphic Upper Body Designed for Physical Interaction (I)

Robot Perception

  • Active Depth Estimation: Stability Analysis and Its Applications
  • VALID: A Comprehensive Virtual Aerial Image Dataset
  • Multiple Sound Source Position Estimation by Drone Audition Based on Data Association between Sound Source Localization and Identification
  • Augmented LiDAR Simulator for Autonomous Driving
  • Purely Image-Based Pose Stabilization of Nonholonomic Mobile Robots with a Truly Uncalibrated Overhead Camera (I)

Distributed Robot Systems

  • Distributed Attack-Robust Submodular Maximization for Multi-Robot Planning
  • Multirobot Patrolling against Adaptive Opponents with Limited Information
  • Distributed Optimization of Nonlinear, Non-Gaussian, Communication-Aware Information Using Particle Methods
  • Experimental Comparison of Decentralized Task Allocation Algorithms under Imperfect Communication
  • Parallel Self-Assembly with SMORES-EP, a Modular Robot
  • Scalable Cooperative Transport of Cable-Suspended Loads with UAVs Using Distributed Trajectory Optimization

Range Sensing

  • Super-Pixel Sampler: A Data-Driven Approach for Depth Sampling and Reconstruction
  • Physics-Based Simulation of Continuous-Wave LIDAR for Localization, Calibration and Tracking
  • A Spatial-Temporal Multiplexing Method for Dense 3D Surface Reconstruction of Moving Objects
  • Modeling of Architectural Components for Large-Scale Indoor Spaces from Point Cloud Measurement
  • PhaRaO: Direct Radar Odometry Using Phase Correlation
  • DeepTemporalSeg: Temporally Consistent Semantic Segmentation of 3D LiDAR Scans

Transfer Learning

  • Self-Supervised Sim-To-Real Adaptation for Visual Robotic Manipulation
  • Meta Reinforcement Learning for Sim-To-Real Domain Adaptation
  • Variational Auto-Regularized Alignment for Sim-To-Real Control
  • Experience Selection Using Dynamics Similarity for Efficient Multi-Source Transfer Learning between Robots
  • DeepRacer: Autonomous Racing Platform for Experimentation with Sim2Real Reinforcement Learning
  • Cross-Domain Motion Transfer Via Safety-Aware Shared Latent Space Modeling

Flexible Robots

  • Investigation of a Multistable Tensegrity Robot Applied As Tilting Locomotion System
  • A Novel Articulated Soft Robot Capable of Variable Stiffness through Bistable Structure
  • Modeling and Experiments on the Swallowing and Disgorging Characteristics of an Underwater Continuum Manipulator
  • Salamanderbot: A Soft-Rigid Composite Continuum Mobile Robotto Traverse Complex Environments
  • Flexure Hinge-Based Biomimetic Thumb with a Rolling-Surface Metacarpal Joint
  • Stretchable Kirigami Components for Composite Meso-Scale Robots

Field and Space Robots

  • Ibex: A Reconfigurable Ground Vehicle with Adaptive Terrain Navigation Capability
  • Day and Night Collaborative Dynamic Mapping in Unstructured Environment Based on Multimodal Sensors
  • Generating Locomotion with Effective Wheel Radius Manipulation
  • Where to Map? Iterative Mars Helicopter-Rover Path Planning for Long-Range Autonomous Exploration
  • A GNC Architecture for Planetary Rovers with Autonomous Navigation
  • Mine Tunnel Exploration Using Multiple Quadrupedal Robots

Recognition

  • Learning Face Recognition Unsupervisedly by Disentanglement and Self-Augmentation
  • PARC: A Plan and Activity Recognition Component for Assistive Robots
  • Image-Based Place Recognition on Bucolic Environment across Seasons from Semantic Edge Description
  • A Multilayer-Multimodal Fusion Architecture for Pattern Recognition of Natural Manipulations in Percutaneous Coronary Interventions
  • Action Description from 2D Human Postures in Care Facilities
  • CoHOG: A Light-Weight, Compute-Efficient and Training-Free Visual Place Recognition Technique for Changing Environments

Aerial Systems: Multi-Robots

  • Distributed Consensus Control of Multiple UAVs in a Constrained Environment
  • Neural-Swarm: Decentralized Close-Proximity Multirotor Control Using Learned Interactions
  • Line Coverage with Multiple Robots
  • Visual Coverage Maintenance for Quadcopters Using Nonsmooth Barrier Functions
  • Autonomous Reflectance Transformation Imaging by a Team of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Localization of Ionizing Radiation Sources by Cooperating Micro Aerial Vehicles with Pixel Detectors in Real-Time

Biological Cell Manipulation

  • Design and Control of a Piezo Drill for Robotic Piezo-Driven Cell Penetration
  • Model-Based Robotic Cell Aspiration: Tackling Nonlinear Dynamics and Varying Cell Sizes
  • Automated High-Productivity Microinjection System for Adherent Cells
  • High Fidelity Force Feedback Facilitates Manual Injection in Biological Samples
  • Dynamic Response of Swimming Paramecium Induced by Local Stimulation Using a Threadlike-Microtool
  • Injection of a Fluorescent Microsensor into a Specific Cell by Laser Manipulation and Heating with Multiple Wavelengths of Light

Cooperating Robots

  • Correspondence Identification in Collaborative Robot Perception through Maximin Hypergraph Matching
  • Scalable Target-Tracking for Autonomous Vehicle Fleets
  • A Dynamic Weighted Area Assignment Based on a Particle Filter for Active Cooperative Perception
  • Flying Batteries: In-Flight Battery Switching to Increase Multirotor Flight Time
  • Sensor Assignment Algorithms to Improve Observability While Tracking Targets (I)

  • Coordinated Bayesian-Based Bioinspired Plume Source Term Estimation and Source Seeking for Mobile Robots (I)

RGB-D Perception

  • ClearGrasp: 3D Shape Estimation of Transparent Objects for Manipulation
  • 6D Object Pose Regression Via Supervised Learning on Point Clouds
  • YCB-M: A Multi-Camera RGB-D Dataset for Object Recognition and 6DoF Pose Estimation
  • Depth Based Semantic Scene Completion with Position Importance Aware Loss
  • Self-Supervised 6D Object Pose Estimation for Robot Manipulation
  • Panoptic 3D Mapping and Object Pose Estimation Using Adaptively Weighted Semantic Information

Task Planning

  • Online Trajectory Planning through Combined Trajectory Optimization and Function Approximation: Application to the Exoskeleton Atalante
  • Act, Perceive, and Plan in Belief Space for Robot Localization
  • Decentralized Task Allocation in Multi-Agent Systems Using a Decentralized Genetic Algorithm
  • Fast and Resilient Manipulation Planning for Target Retrieval in Clutter
  • Multi-Robot Task and Motion Planning with Subtask Dependencies
  • Untethered Soft Millirobot with Magnetic Actuation

Brain-Machine Interfaces

  • Accelerated Robot Learning Via Human Brain Signals
  • Muscle and Brain Activations in Cylindrical Rotary Controller Manipulation with Index Finger and Thumb
  • Real-Time Robot Reach-To-Grasp Movements Control Via EOG and EMG Signals Decoding
  • Simultaneous Estimations of Joint Angle and Torque in Interactions with Environments Using EMG
  • High-Density Electromyography Based Control of Robotic Devices: On the Execution of Dexterous Manipulation Tasks
  • The Role of the Control Framework for Continuous Teleoperation of a Brain�Machine Interface-Driven Mobile Robot (I)

Tendon/Wire Mechanism

  • Asynchronous and Decoupled Control of the Position and the Stiffness of a Spatial RCM Tensegrity Mechanism for Needle Manipulation
  • Redundancy Resolution Integrated Model Predictive Control of CDPRs: Concept, Implementation and Experiments
  • Mechanics for Tendon Actuated Multisection Continuum Arms
  • Trajectory Optimization for a Six-DOF Cable-Suspended Parallel Robot with Dynamic Motions Beyond the Static Workspace
  • Design of Tensegrity-Based Manipulators: Comparison of Two Approaches to Respect a Remote Center of Motion Constraint
  • Accurate Dynamic Modeling of Twisted String Actuators Accounting for String Compliance and Friction

Agricultural Automation

  • An Intelligent Spraying System with Deep Learning-Based Semantic Segmentation of Fruit Trees in Orchards
  • An Efficient Planning and Control Framework for Pruning Fruit Trees
  • Context Dependant Iterative Parameter Optimisation for Robust Robot Navigation
  • Combining Domain Adaptation and Spatial Consistency for Unseen Fruits Counting: A Quasi-Unsupervised Approach
  • A Navigation Architecture for Ackermann Vehicles in Precision Farming
  • MinneApple: A Benchmark Dataset for Apple Detection and Segmentation

Underactuated Robots

  • Extending Riemmanian Motion Policies to a Class of Underactuated Wheeled-Inverted-Pendulum Robots
  • Augmenting Self-Stability: Height Control of a Bernoulli Ball Via Bang-Bang Control
  • Singularity-Free Inverse Dynamics for Underactuated Systems with a Rotating Mass
  • Coordinated Particle Relocation Using Finite Static Friction with Boundary Walls
  • Robust Capture of Unknown Objects with a Highly Under-Actuated Gripper
  • TWISTER Hand: Underactuated Robotic Gripper Inspired by Origami Twisted Tower (I)

Applications

  • Robust Autonomous Navigation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for Warehouses’ Inventory Applications
  • SUMMIT: A Simulator for Urban Driving in Massive Mixed Traffic
  • A Model-Based Reinforcement Learning and Correction Framework for Process Control of Robotic Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing
  • Toward Optimal FDM Toolpath Planning with Monte Carlo Tree Search
  • Optimizing Performance in Automation through Modular Robots
  • Towards Practical Multi-Object Manipulation Using Relational Reinforcement Learning
  • SwarmMesh: A Distributed Data Structure for Cooperative Multi-Robot Applications

Robust and Sensor-Based Control

  • Avalanche Victim Search Via Robust Observers
  • Reactive Control and Metric-Topological Planning for Exploration
  • Information Theoretic Active Exploration in Signed Distance Fields
  • Adaptive Integral Inverse Kinematics Control for Lightweight Compliant Manipulators
  • Bayesian Learning-Based Adaptive Control for Safety Critical Systems
  • A Novel Adaptive Controller for Robot Manipulators Based on Active Inference

Object Detection, Segmentation and Categorization

  • Stillleben: Realistic Scene Synthesis for Deep Learning in Robotics
  • From Planes to Corners: Multi-Purpose Primitive Detection in Unorganized 3D Point Clouds
  • Addressing the Sim2Real Gap in Robotic 3D Object Classification
  • A Generative Approach towards Improved Robotic Detection of Marine Litter
  • Learning to Optimally Segment Point Clouds
  • CNN Based Road User Detection Using the 3D Radar Cube
  • PST900: RGB-Thermal Calibration, Dataset and Segmentation Network
  • Instance Segmentation of LiDAR Point Clouds
  • Generation of Object Candidates through Simply Looking Around
  • Dilated Point Convolutions: On the Receptive Field Size of Point Convolutions on 3D Point Clouds
  • A Water-Obstacle Separation and Refinement Network for Unmanned Surface Vehicles
  • Dynamic Anchor Selection for Improving Object Localization
  • 3D Object Detection and Tracking Based on Streaming Data
  • Object-Centric Stereo Matching for 3D Object Detection
  • The Relative Confusion Matrix, a Tool to Assess Classifiablility in Large Scale Picking Applications
  • Pose-Guided Auto-Encoder and Feature-Based Refinement for 6-DoF Object Pose Regression
  • PrimiTect: Fast Continuous Hough Voting for Primitive Detection
  • FarSee-Net: Real-Time Semantic Segmentation by Efficient Multi-Scale Context Aggregation and Feature Space Super-Resolution

Aerial Systems: Perception and Autonomy

  • Pose-Estimate-Based Target Tracking for Human-Guided Remote Sensor Mounting with a UAV
  • Aerial Single-View Depth Completion with Image-Guided Uncertainty Estimation
  • EVDodgeNet: Deep Dynamic Obstacle Dodging with Event Cameras
  • Direct Visual-Inertial Ego-Motion Estimation Via Iterated Extended Kalman Filter
  • A Robust UAV System for Operations in a Constrained Environment
  • On Training Datasets for Machine Learning-Based Visual Relative Localization of Micro-Scale UAVs
  • Fast Frontier-Based Information-Driven Autonomous Exploration with an MAV
  • Dynamic Landing of an Autonomous Quadrotor on a Moving Platform in Turbulent Wind Conditions
  • Cross-Drone Binocular Coordination for Ground Moving Target Tracking in Occlusion-Rich Scenarios
  • Direct NMPC for Post-Stall Motion Planning with Fixed-Wing UAVs
  • IMU-Based Inertia Estimation for a Quadrotor Using Newton-Euler Dynamics
  • A Flight Envelope Determination and Protection System for Fixed-Wing UAVs
  • AU-AIR: A Multi-Modal Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Dataset for Low Altitude Traffic Surveillance
  • Design and Autonomous Stabilization of a Ballistically Launched Multirotor
  • Asynchronous Event-Based Clustering and Tracking for Intrusion Monitoring in UAS
  • SHIFT: Selective Heading Image for Translation, an Onboard Monocular Optical Flow Estimator for Fast Constantly Rotating UAVs
  • Flydar: Magnetometer-Based High Angular Rate Estimation During Gyro Saturation for SLAM
  • Nonlinear MPC with Motor Failure Identification and Recovery for Safe and Aggressive Multicopter Flight

Autonomous Vehicle Navigation

  • Autonomous Navigation in Inclement Weather Based on a Localizing Ground Penetrating Radar
  • Robot Navigation in Crowds by Graph Convolutional Networks with Attention Learned from Human Gaze
  • Wall Deadlock Evasion Control Based on Rotation Radius Adjustment
  • Socially-Aware Reactive Obstacle Avoidance Strategy Based on Limit Cycle
  • Multi-Head Attention for Multi-Modal Joint Vehicle Motion Forecasting
  • Temporal Information Integration for Video Semantic Segmentation
  • Map-Predictive Motion Planning in Unknown Environments
  • Using Multiple Short Hops for Multicopter Navigation with Only Inertial Sensors
  • An Efficient and Continuous Approach to Information-Theoretic Exploration
  • A Feature-Based Underwater Path Planning Approach Using Multiple Perspective Prior Maps
  • Automatic LiDAR-Camera Calibration of Extrinsic Parameters Using a Spherical Target

Mapping

  • A Unified Framework for Piecewise Semantic Reconstruction in Dynamic Scenes Via Exploiting Superpixel Relations
  • Keyframe-Based Dense Mapping with the Graph of View-Dependent Local Maps
  • Informative Path Planning for Active Mapping under Localization Uncertainty
  • Ensemble of Sparse Gaussian Process Experts for Implicit Surface Mapping with Streaming Data
  • Robust Method for Removing Dynamic Objects from Point Clouds
  • Skeleton-Based Conditionally Independent Gaussian Process Implicit Surfaces for Fusion in Sparse to Dense 3D Reconstruction
  • Motion Estimation in Occupancy Grid Maps in Stationary Settings Using Recurrent Neural Networks
  • A Divide and Conquer Method for 3D Registration of Inhomogeneous, Partially Overlapping Scans with Fourier Mellin SOFT (FMS)

  • Estimating Motion Uncertainty with Bayesian ICP

  • Actively Mapping Industrial Structures with Information Gain-Based Planning on a Quadruped Robot
  • Efficient Covisibility-Based Image Matching for Large-Scale SfM
  • Probabilistic TSDF Fusion Using Bayesian Deep Learning for Dense 3D Reconstruction with a Single RGB Camera
  • A Volumetric Albedo Framework for 3D Imaging Sonar Reconstruction
  • Map Management Approach for SLAM in Large-Scale Indoor and Outdoor Areas
  • A Hierarchical Framework for Collaborative Probabilistic Semantic Mapping
  • Autonomous Navigation in Unknown Environments Using Sparse Kernel-Based Occupancy Mapping
  • Hybrid Topological and 3D Dense Mapping through Autonomous Exploration for Large Indoor Environments
  • Resolving Marker Pose Ambiguity by Robust Rotation Averaging with Clique Constraints

Computer Vision for Other Robotic Applications

  • Real-Time Semantic Stereo Matching
  • Multi-Task Learning for Single Image Depth Estimation and Segmentation Based on Unsupervised Network
  • Learning Transformable and Plannable Se(3) Features for Scene Imitation of a Mobile Service Robot
  • Multimodal Multispectral Imaging System for Small UAVs
  • Unseen Salient Object Discovery for Monocular Robot Vision
  • CorsNet: 3D Point Cloud Registration by Deep Neural Network
  • Anticipating the Start of User Interaction for Service Robot in the Wild
  • Spin Detection in Robotic Table Tennis
  • Look, Listen, and Act: Towards Audio-Visual Embodied Navigation
  • Autonomous Tool Construction with Gated Graph Neural Network
  • Training-Set Distillation for Real-Time UAV Object Tracking
  • CNN-Based Simultaneous Dehazing and Depth Estimation
  • IF-Net: An Illumination-Invariant Feature Network
  • Deep-Learning Assisted High-Resolution Binocular Stereo Depth Reconstruction
  • Least-Squares Optimal Relative Planar Motion for Vehicle-Mounted Cameras
  • Relative Planar Motion for Vehicle-Mounted Cameras from a Single Affine Correspondence
  • Moving Object Detection for Visual Odometry in a Dynamic Environment Based on Occlusion Accumulation
  • A Low-Rank Matrix Approximation Approach to Multiway Matching with Applications in Multi-Sensory Data Association

Humanoid and Bipedal Locomotion

  • LQR-Assisted Whole-Body Control of a Wheeled Bipedal Robot with Kinematic Loops
  • Leveraging the Template and Anchor Framework for Safe, Online Robotic Gait Design
  • Unified Push Recovery Fundamentals: Inspiration from Human Study
  • Nonholonomic Virtual Constraint Design for Variable-Incline Bipedal Robotic Walking
  • MPC for Humanoid Gait Generation: Stability and Feasibility (I)

  • A Robust Walking Controller Based on Online Optimization of Ankle, Hip, and Stepping Strategies (I)

  • Passive Dynamic Balancing and Walking in Actuated Environments
  • Biped Stabilization by Linear Feedback of the Variable-Height Inverted Pendulum Model
  • Stability Criteria of Balanced and Steppable Unbalanced States for Full-Body Systems with Implications in Robotic and Human Gait
  • Material Handling by Humanoid Robot While Pushing Carts Using a Walking Pattern Based on Capture Point
  • Interconnection and Damping Assignment Passivity-Based Control for Gait Generation in Underactuated Compass-Like Robots
  • Safety-Critical Control of a Cassie Bipedal Robot Riding Hovershoes for Vision-Based Obstacle Avoidance
  • A Methodology for the Incorporation of Arbitrarily-Shaped Feet in Passive Bipedal Walking Dynamics
  • Experimental Analysis of Structural Vibration Problems of a Biped Walking Robot
  • Dynamic Coupling As an Indicator of Gait Robustness for Underactuated Biped Robots
  • ZMP Constraint Restriction for Robust Gait Generation in Humanoids
  • Hybrid Zero Dynamics Inspired Feedback Control Policy Design for 3D Bipedal Locomotion Using Reinforcement Learning
  • Optimal Reduced-Order Modeling of Bipedal Locomotion

Motion Control

  • Anti-Jackknife Control of Tractor-Trailer Vehicles Via Intrinsically Stable MPC
  • On Sensing-Aware Model Predictive Path-Following Control for a Reversing General 2-Trailer with a Car-Like Tractor
  • Offline Practising and Runtime Training Framework for Autonomous Motion Control of Snake Robots
  • Control of a Differentially Driven Nonholonomic Robot Subject to a Restricted Wheels Rotation
  • Inferring Task-Space Central Pattern Generator Parameters for Closed-Loop Control of Underactuated Robots
  • Magnetically Actuated Simple Millirobots for Complex Navigation and Modular Assembly

Dexterous Manipulation

  • MagicHand: Context-Aware Dexterous Grasping Using an Anthropomorphic Robotic Hand
  • Strategy for Roller Chain Assembly with Parallel Jaw Gripper
  • Distal Hyperextension Is Handy: High Range of Motion in Cluttered Environments
  • Learning Pre-Grasp Manipulation for Objects in Un-Graspable Poses
  • Object-Level Impedance Control for Dexterous In-Hand Manipulation
  • Picking Thin Objects by Tilt-And-Pivot Manipulation and Its Application to Bin Picking
  • In-Hand Manipulation of Objects with Unknown Shapes
  • Learning Hierarchical Control for Robust In-Hand Manipulation
  • Tactile Dexterity: Manipulation Primitives with Tactile Feedback
  • Design of a Roller-Based Dexterous Hand for Object Grasping and Within-Hand Manipulation
  • High-Resolution Optical Fiber Shape Sensing of Continuum Robots: A Comparative Study
  • Local Trajectory Stabilization for Dexterous Manipulation Via Piecewise Affine Approximations

Computer Vision for Automation and Manufacturing

  • Monocular Direct Sparse Localization in a Prior 3D Surfel Map
  • LINS: A Lidar-Inertial State Estimator for Robust and Efficient Navigation
  • Automated Eye-In-Hand Robot-3D Scanner Calibration for Low Stitching Errors
  • Monocular Visual Odometry Using Learned Repeatability and Description
  • Interaction Graphs for Object Importance Estimation in On-Road Driving Videos
  • A Robotics Inspection System for Detecting Defects on Semi-Specular Painted Automotive Surfaces

Visual Servoing

  • Active Deformation through Visual Servoing of Soft Objects
  • Visual Geometric Skill Inference by Watching Human Demonstration
  • Direct Visual Servoing in the Frequency Domain
  • DFVS: Deep Flow Guided Scene Agnostic Image Based Visual Servoing
  • Photometric Path Planning for Vision-Based Navigation
  • A Memory of Motion for Visual Predictive Control Tasks

Soft Robot Materials and Design

  • Designing Ferromagnetic Soft Robots (FerroSoRo) with Level-Set-Based Multiphysics Topology Optimization
  • Exoskeleton-Covered Soft Finger with Vision-Based Proprioception and Tactile Sensing
  • Tuning the Energy Landscape of Soft Robots for Fast and Strong Motion
  • REBOund: Untethered Origami Jumping Robot with Controllable Jump Height
  • Concentric Precurved Bellows: New Bending Actuators for Soft Robots
  • Design of Deployable Soft Robots through Plastic Deformation of Kirigami Structures
  • Self-Excited Vibration Valve That Induces Traveling Waves in Pneumatic Soft Mobile Robots
  • A 1mm-Thick Miniatured Mobile Soft Robot with Mechanosensation and Multimodal Locomotion
  • Anisotropic Soft Robots Based on 3D Printed Meso-Structured Materials: Design, Modeling by Homogenization and Simulation
  • 3D-Printed Electroactive Hydraulic Valves for Use in Soft Robotic Applications
  • Design and Workspace Characterisation of Malleable Robots
  • A Tri-Stable Soft Robotic Finger Capable of Pinch and Wrap Grasps
  • A Dexterous Tip-Extending Robot with Variable-Length Shape-Locking
  • Compliant Electromagnetic Actuator Architecture for Soft Robotics
  • Dynamically Reconfigurable Discrete Distributed Stiffness for Inflated Beam Robots
  • Retraction of Soft Growing Robots without Buckling

Rehabilitation Robotics

  • Motion Intensity Extraction Scheme for Simultaneous Recognition of Wrist/Hand Motions
  • Simultaneous Online Motion Discrimination and Evaluation of Whole-Body Exercise by Synergy Probes for Home Rehabilitation
  • IART: Learning from Demonstration for Assisted Robotic Therapy Using LSTM
  • Validation of a Forward Kinematics Based Controller for a Mobile Tethered Pelvic Assist Device to Augment Pelvic Forces During Walking
  • Temporal Muscle Synergy Features Estimate Effects of Short-Term Rehabilitation in Sit-To-Stand of Post-Stroke Patients
  • Model Learning for Control of a Paralyzed Human Arm with Functional Electrical Stimulation
  • Patient-Specific, Voice-Controlled, Robotic FLEXotendon Glove-II System for Spinal Cord Injury
  • Integration of Self-Sealing Suction Cups on the FLEXotendon Glove-II Robotic Exoskeleton System
  • A Novel End-Effector Robot System Enabling to Monitor Upper-Extremity Posture During Robot-Aided Reaching Movements
  • Optimal Design of a Novel 3-DOF Orientational Parallel Mechanism for Pelvic Assistance on a Wheelchair: An Approach Based on Kinematic Geometry and Screw Theory
  • Using Human Ratings for Feedback Control: A Supervised Learning Approach with Application to Rehabilitation Robotics (I)

  • Compliant Humanoids Moving Toward Rehabilitation Applications: Transparent Integration of Real-Time Control, Whole-Body Motion Generation, and Virtual Reality (I)

  • Data-Driven Reinforcement Learning for Walking Assistance Control of a Lower Limb Exoskeleton with Hemiplegic Patients

  • On the Effects of Visual Anticipation of Floor Compliance Changes on Human Gait: Towards Model-Based Robot-Assisted Rehabilitation
  • A Visual Positioning System for Indoor Blind Navigation
  • An Outsole-Embedded Optoelectronic Sensor to Measure Shear Ground Reaction Forces During Locomotion
  • Bump�em: An Open-Source, Bump-Emulation System for Studying Human Balance and Gait
  • A Hybrid, Soft Exoskeleton Glove Equipped with a Telescopic Extra Thumb and Abduction Capabilities

Physical Human-Robot Interaction

  • Transient Behavior and Predictability in Manipulating Complex Objects
  • A Variable-Fractional Order Admittance Controller for PHRI
  • Assistive Gym: A Physics Simulation Framework for Assistive Robotics
  • Learning Whole-Body Human-Robot Haptic Interaction in Social Contexts
  • Human Preferences in Using Damping to Manage Singularities During Physical Human-Robot Collaboration
  • MOCA-MAN: A MObile and Reconfigurable Collaborative Robot Assistant for Conjoined huMAN-Robot Actions
  • Variable Damping Control of a Robotic Arm to Improve Trade-Off between Agility and Stability and Reduce User Effort
  • Robustness in Human Manipulation of Dynamically Complex Objects through Control Contraction Metrics
  • Cooperative Human-Robot Grasping with Extended Contact Patches
  • The InSight Crutches: Analyzing the Role of Arm Support During Robot-Assisted Leg Movements (I)

  • Cognitive and Motor Compliance in Intentional Human-Robot Interaction

  • Controlling an Upper-Limb Exoskeleton by EMG Signal While Carrying Unknown Load
  • Learning Grasping Points for Garment Manipulation in Robot-Assisted Dressing
  • TACTO-Selector: Enhanced Hierarchical Fusion of PBVS with Reactive Skin Control for Physical Human-Robot Interaction
  • Towards an Intelligent Collaborative Robotic System for Mixed Case Palletizing
  • Treadmill Based Three Tether Parallel Robot for Evaluating Auditory Warnings While Running
  • Evaluation of Human-Robot Object Co-Manipulation under Robot Impedance Control

Telerobotics and Teleoperation

  • Adaptive

  • Tactile Telerobots for Dull, Dirty, Dangerous, and Inaccessible Tasks

  • A Teleoperation Framework for Mobile Robots Based on Shared Control
  • A Novel Orientability Index and the Kinematic Design of the RemoT-ARM: A Haptic Master with Large and Dexterous Workspace
  • Enhancing the Transparency by Onomatopoeia for Passivity-Based Time-Delayed Teleoperation
  • RAVEN-S: Design and Simulation of a Robot for Teleoperated Microgravity Rodent Dissection under Time Delay
  • Closing the Force Loop to Enhance Transparency in Time-Delayed Teleoperation
  • Evaluation of an Exoskeleton-Based Bimanual Teleoperation Architecture with Independently Passivated Slave Devices
  • Hand-Worn Haptic Interface for Drone Teleoperation
  • Toward Human-Like Teleoperated Robot Motion: Performance and Perception of a Choreography-Inspired Method in Static and Dynamic Tasks for Rapid Pose Selection of Articulated Robots
  • Helping Robots Learn: A Human-Robot Master-Apprentice Model Using Demonstrations Via Virtual Reality Teleoperation
  • A Framework for Interactive Virtual Fixture Generation for Shared Teleoperation in Unstructured Environments
  • Whole-Body Bilateral Teleoperation of a Redundant Aerial Manipulator
  • Shared Autonomous Interface for Reducing Physical Effort in Robot Teleoperation Via Human Motion Mapping
  • DexPilot: Vision-Based Teleoperation of Dexterous Robotic Hand-Arm System
  • Distributed Winner-Take-All Teleoperation of a Multi-Robot System
  • Enhanced Teleoperation Using Autocomplete

Collision Avoidance

  • Collision-Free Navigation of Human-Centered Robots Via Markov Games
  • DenseCAvoid: Real-Time Navigation in Dense Crowds Using Anticipatory Behaviors
  • DEEPCRASHTEST: Turning Dashcam Videos into Virtual Crash Tests for Automated Driving Systems
  • Observer-Extended Direct Method for Collision Monitoring in Robot Manipulators Using Proprioception and IMU Sensing
  • DCAD: Decentralized Collision Avoidance with Dynamics Constraints for Agile Quadrotor Swarms
  • Forward Kinematics Kernel for Improved Proxy Collision Checking
  • Local Obstacle-Skirting Path Planning for a Fast Bi-Steerable Rover Using B�ziers Curves
  • Collision Avoidance with Proximity Servoing for Redundant Serial Robot Manipulators
  • Predicting Obstacle Footprints from 2D Occupancy Maps by Learning from Physical Interactions
  • Path Planning in Dynamic Environments Using Generative RNNs and Monte Carlo Tree Search
  • Safety-Critical Rapid Aerial Exploration of Unknown Environments
  • Reactive Navigation under Non-Parametric Uncertainty through Hilbert Space Embedding of Probabilistic Velocity Obstacles
  • Contact-Based Bounding Volume Hierarchy for Assembly Tasks
  • Construction of Bounding Volume Hierarchies for Triangle Meshes with Mixed Face Sizes
  • Strategy for Automated Dense Parking: How to Navigate in Narrow Lanes
  • Multimodal Trajectory Predictions for Urban Environments Using Geometric Relationship between a Vehicle and Lanes
  • Online Optimal Motion Generation with Guaranteed Safety in Shared Workspace
  • Episodic Koopman Learning of Nonlinear Robot Dynamics with Applications to Fast Multirotor Landing

Micro/Nano Robots

  • Reconfigurable Magnetic Microswarm for Thrombolysis under Ultrasound Imaging
  • Improving Optical Micromanipulation with Force-Feedback Bilateral Coupling
  • Maneuver at Micro Scale: Steering by Actuation Frequency Control in Micro Bristle Robots
  • Scaling down an Insect-Size Microrobot, HAMR-VI into HAMR-Jr
  • Model Predictive Control with Obstacle Avoidance for Inertia Actuated AFM Probes Inside a Scanning Electron Microscope
  • Double-Modal Locomotion and Application of Soft Cruciform Thin-Film Microrobot
  • Robotic Control of a Magnetic Swarm for On-Demand Intracellular Measurement
  • Acoustofluidic Tweezers for the 3D Manipulation of Microparticles
  • Task Space Motion Control for AFM-Based Nanorobot Using Optimal and Ultralimit Archimedean Spiral Local Scan
  • Kinematic Model of a Magnetic-Microrobot Swarm in a Rotating Magnetic Dipole Field
  • Magnetic Milli-Robot Swarm Platform: A Safety Barrier Certificate Enabled, Low-Cost Test Bed
  • A Device for Rapid, Automated Trimming of Insect-Sized Flying Robots
  • Eye-In-Hand 3D Visual Servoing of Helical Swimmers Using Parallel Mobile Coils
  • A Mobile Paramagnetic Nanoparticle Swarm with Automatic Shape Deformation Control
  • Magnetic Miniature Swimmers with Multiple Flagella
  • Design and Control of a Large-Range Nil-Stiffness Electro-Magnetic Active Force Sensor
  • Modeling Electromagnetic Navigation Systems for Medical Applications Using Random Forests and Artificial Neural Networks
  • Automated Tracking System with Head and Tail Recognition for Time-Lapse Observation of Free-Moving C. Elegans

AI-Based Methods

  • Towards Adaptive Benthic Habitat Mapping
  • Multispectral Domain Invariant Image for Retrieval-Based Place Recognition
  • Probabilistic Effect Prediction through Semantic Augmentation and Physical Simulation
  • Anytime Integrated Task and Motion Policies for Stochastic Environments
  • Context-Aware Human Activity Recognition
  • Interactive Natural Language-Based Person Search

Climbing Robots

  • CCRobot-III: A Split-Type Wire-Driven Cable Climbing Robot for Cable-Stayed Bridge Inspection
  • Omnidirectional Tractable Three Module Robot
  • A Practical Climbing Robot for Steel Bridge Inspection
  • Development of a Wheeled Wall-Climbing Robot with a Shape-Adaptive Magnetic Adhesion Mechanism
  • Towards More Possibilities: Motion Planning and Control for Hybrid Locomotion of Wheeled-Legged Robots
  • Navigation for Legged Mobility: Dynamic Climbing (I)

Failure Detection and Recovery

  • Algebraic Fault Detection and Identification for Rigid Robots
  • Fault Tolerance Analysis of a Hexarotor with Reconfigurable Tilted Rotors
  • Detecting Execution Anomalies As an Oracle for Autonomy Software Robustness
  • When Your Robot Breaks: Active Learning During Plant Failure
  • An Integrated Dynamic Fall Protection and Recovery System for Two-Wheeled Humanoids
  • Reliability Validation of Learning Enabled Vehicle Tracking

Learning to Predict

  • Spatiotemporal Representation Learning with GAN Trained LSTM-LSTM Networks
  • Belief Regulated Dual Propagation Nets for Learning Action Effects on Groups of Articulated Objects
  • Deep Kinematic Models for Kinematically Feasible Vehicle Trajectory Predictions
  • Human Driver Behavior Prediction Based on UrbanFlow
  • Environment Prediction from Sparse Samples for Robotic Information Gathering
  • Predicting Pushing Action Effects on Spatial Object Relations by Learning Internal Prediction Models
  • Under the Radar: Learning to Predict Robust Keypoints for Odometry Estimation and Metric Localisation in Radar
  • SpAGNN: Spatially-Aware Graph Neural Networks for Relational Behavior Forecasting from Sensor Data
  • Any Motion Detector: Learning Class-Agnostic Scene Dynamics from a Sequence of LiDAR Point Clouds
  • Real Time Trajectory Prediction Using Deep Conditional Generative Models
  • Ambiguity in Sequential Data: Predicting Uncertain Futures with Recurrent Models
  • Where and When: Event-Based Spatiotemporal Trajectory Prediction from the iCub’s Point-Of-View

Learning for Motion Planning

  • Learning of Key Pose Evaluation for Efficient Multi-Contact Motion Planner
  • Differentiable Gaussian Process Motion Planning
  • Learn and Link: Learning Critical Regions for Efficient Planning
  • What the Constant Velocity Model Can Teach Us about Pedestrian Motion Prediction
  • Path Planning with Local Motion Estimations
  • Scene Compliant Trajectory Forecast with Agent-Centric Spatio-Temporal Grids
  • A Data-Driven Planning Framework for Robotic Texture Painting on 3D Surfaces
  • Learned Critical Probabilistic Roadmaps for Robotic Motion Planning
  • Learning Heuristic A*: Efficient Graph Search Using Neural Network
  • 3D-CNN Based Heuristic Guided Task-Space Planner for Faster Motion Planning
  • Learned Sampling Distributions for Efficient Planning in Hybrid Geometric and Object-Level Representations
  • Deep Visual Heuristics: Learning Feasibility of Mixed-Integer Programs for Manipulation Planning

Motion Control of Manipulators

  • Segmentation and Averaging of sEMG Muscle Activations Prior to Synergy Extraction
  • Energy-Optimal Cooperative Manipulation Via Provable Internal-Force Regulation
  • Robot Telekinesis: Application of a Unimanual and Bimanual Object Manipulation Technique to Robot Control
  • A Set-Theoretic Approach to Multi-Task Execution and Prioritization
  • Task Space Control of Articulated Robot Near Kinematic Singularity: Forward Dynamics Approach
  • Variable Impedance Control in Cartesian Latent Space While Avoiding Obstacles in Null Space

Computer Vision for Medical Robots

  • Attention-Guided Lightweight Network for Real-Time Segmentation of Robotic Surgical Instruments
  • Automated Robotic Breast Ultrasound Acquisition Using Ultrasound Feedback
  • Robust and Accurate 3D Curve to Surface Registration with Tangent and Normal Vectors
  • Single Shot Pose Estimation of Surgical Robot Instruments’ Shafts from Monocular Endoscopic Images
  • End-To-End Real-Time Catheter Segmentation with Optical Flow-Guided Warping During Endovascular Intervention
  • Pathological Airway Segmentation with Cascaded Neural Networks for Bronchoscopic Navigation

Grippers and Other End-Effectors

  • A Novel Underactuated End-Effector for Planar Sequential Grasping of Multiple Objects
  • Design and Analysis of a Synergy-Inspired Three-Fingered Hand
  • Multiplexed Manipulation: Versatile Multimodal Grasping Via a Hybrid Soft Gripper
  • Modeling, Optimization, and Experimentation of the ParaGripper for In-Hand Manipulation without Parasitic Rotation
  • Underactuated Gecko Adhesive Gripper for Simple and Versatile Grasp
  • Examining the Frictional Behavior of Primitive Contact Geometries for Use As Robotic Finger Pads
  • Design of 3D-Printed Assembly Mechanisms Based on Special Wooden Joinery Techniques and Its Application to a Robotic Hand
  • Parallel Gripper with Displacement-Magnification Mechanism and Extendable Finger Mechanism
  • Sheet-Based Gripper Featuring Passive Pull-In Functionality for Bin Picking and for Picking up Thin Flexible Objects
  • An Origami-Inspired Variable Friction Surface for Increasing the Dexterity of Robotic Grippers
  • A Shape Memory Polymer Adhesive Gripper for Pick-And-Place Applications
  • A High-Payload Proprioceptive Hybrid Robotic Gripper with Soft Origamic Actuators

Formal Methods in Robotics and Automation

  • Reality As a Simulation of Reality: Robot Illusions, Fundamental Limits, and a Physical Demonstration
  • Finding Missing Skills for High-Level Behaviors
  • Near-Optimal Reactive Synthesis Incorporating RuntimeInformation
  • Control Synthesis from Linear Temporal Logic Specifications Using Model-Free Reinforcement Learning
  • A Framework for Formal Verification of Behavior Trees with Linear Temporal Logic
  • Safety Assessment of Collaborative Robotics through Automated Formal Verification (I)

Parallel Robots

  • R-Min: A Fast Collaborative Underactuated Parallel Robot for Pick-And-Place Operations
  • High-Flexibility Locomotion and Whole-Torso Control for a Wheel-Legged Robot on Challenging Terrain
  • Prince’s Tears, a Large Cable-Driven Parallel Robot for an Artistic Exhibition
  • Singularity Analysis and Reconfiguration Mode of the 3-CRS Parallel Manipulator
  • Trajectory Optimization for a Class of Robots Belonging to Constrained Collaborative Mobile Agents (CCMA) Family
  • Multiaxis Reaction System (MARS) for Vibration Control of Planar Cable-Driven Parallel Robots (I)

Mechanism and Verification

  • Reconfiguration Solution of a Variable Topology Truss: Design and Experiment
  • Development of Body Rotational Wheeled Robot and Its Verification of Effectiveness
  • Error Bounds for PD-Controlled Mechanical Systems under Bounded Disturbances Using Interval Arithmetic
  • Hardware-In-The-Loop Iterative Optimal Feedback Control without Model-Based Future Prediction (I)

  • Analysis and Synthesis of Underactuated Compliant Mechanisms Based on Transmission Properties of Motion and Force (I)

  • Radar Sensors in Collaborative Robotics: Fast Simulation and Experimental Validation

Model Learning for Control

  • Sparse, Online, Locally Adaptive Regression Using Gaussian Processes for Bayesian Robot Model Learning and Control
  • DISCO: Double Likelihood-Free Inference Stochastic Control
  • Discovering Interpretable Dynamics by Sparsity Promotion on Energy and the Lagrangian
  • Online Simultaneous Semi-Parametric Dynamics Model Learning
  • Sufficiently Accurate Model Learning
  • Active Learning of Dynamics for Data-Driven Control Using Koopman Operators (I)

Mobile Manipulation

  • Towards Plan Transformations for Real-World Mobile Fetch and Place
  • Planning an Efficient and Robust Base Sequence for a Mobile Manipulator Performing Multiple Pick-And-Place Tasks
  • Towards Mobile Multi-Task Manipulation in a Confined and Integrated Environment with Irregular Objects
  • Linear Time-Varying MPC for Nonprehensile Object Manipulation with a Nonholonomic Mobile Robot
  • A Mobile Manipulation System for One-Shot Teaching of Complex Tasks in Homes

Computer Vision for Transportation

  • 2D to 3D Line-Based Registration with Unknown Associations Via Mixed-Integer Programming
  • An Efficient Solution to the Relative Pose Estimation with a Common Direction
  • Task-Aware Novelty Detection for Visual-Based Deep Learning in Autonomous Systems
  • DirectShape: Direct Photometric Alignment of Shape Priors for Visual Vehicle Pose and Shape Estimation
  • RoadText-1K: Text Detection & Recognition Dataset for Driving Videos
  • End-To-End Learning for Inter-Vehicle Distance and Relative Velocity Estimation in ADAS with a Monocular Camera

Haptics and Haptic Interfaces

  • Learning an Action-Conditional Model for Haptic Texture Generation
  • Just Noticeable Differences for Joint Torque Feedback During Static Poses
  • Design of a Parallel Haptic Device with Gravity Compensation by Using Its System Weight
  • Enhanced Haptic Sensations Using a Novel Electrostatic Vibration Actuator with Frequency Beating Phenomenon
  • Electromagnetic Haptic Feedback System for Use with a Graphical Display Using Flat Coils and Sensor Array
  • An Instrumented Master Tool Manipulator (MTM) for Force Feedback in the Da Vinci Surgical Robot

Visual Tracking

  • Multi-Person Pose Tracking Using Sequential Monte Carlo with Probabilistic Neural Pose Predictor
  • 4D Generic Video Object Proposals
  • Simultaneous Tracking and Elasticity Parameter Estimation of Deformable Objects
  • AVOT: Audio-Visual Object Tracking of Multiple Objects for Robotics
  • Efficient Pig Counting in Crowds with Keypoints Tracking and Spatial-Aware Temporal Response Filtering
  • 6-PACK: Category-Level 6D Pose Tracker with Anchor-Based Keypoints
  • Multimodal Tracking Framework for Visual Odometry in Challenging Illumination Conditions
  • Real-Time Multi-Diver Tracking and Re-Identification for Underwater Human-Robot Collaboration
  • Autonomous Tissue Scanning under Free-Form Motion for Intraoperative Tissue Characterisation
  • High Speed Three Dimensional Tracking of Swimming Cell by Synchronous Modulation between TeCE Camera and TAG Lens
  • Track to Reconstruct and Reconstruct to Track
  • PointTrackNet: An End-To-End Network for 3-D Object Detection and Tracking from Point Clouds

Planning, Scheduling and Coordination

  • An Online Scheduling Algorithm for Human-Robot Collaborative Kitting
  • A Model-Free Approach to Meta-Level Control of Anytime Algorithms
  • Simultaneous Task Allocation and Motion Scheduling for Complex Tasks Executed by Multiple Robots
  • Efficient Planning for High-Speed MAV Flight in Unknown Environments Using Online Sparse Topological Graphs
  • Evaluating Adaptation Performance of Hierarchical Deep Reinforcement Learning
  • An Approximation Algorithm for a Task Allocation, Sequencing and Scheduling Problem Involving a Human-Robot Team

Reactive and Sensor-Based Planning

  • Iterator-Based Temporal Logic Task Planning
  • Reactive Temporal Logic Planning for Multiple Robots in Unknown Environments
  • Higher Order Function Networks for View Planning and Multi-View Reconstruction
  • Residual Reactive Navigation: Combining Classical and Learned Navigation Strategies for Deployment in Unknown Environments
  • Online Grasp Plan Refinement for Reducing Defects During Robotic Layup of Composite Prepreg Sheets
  • Object-Centric Task and Motion Planning in Dynamic Environments

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