IROS2021PaperList
This repo lists all papers in IROS 2021. We list all papers according their themes alphabetically.
This year the conference received 2801 paper submissions, of which 45% were selected for publication. Each submission was reviewed by at least two reviewers, before receiving a summary report from an Associate Editor and a final report from the Editor. Based on these reviews and reports, the Senior Program Committee and the Program Chair made the final decisions.
- Actuation and Joint Mechanisms
- Aerial Systems: Applications
- Aerial Systems: Mechanics and Control
- Aerial Systems: Perception and Autonomy
- Autonomous Agents
- Autonomous Vehicle Navigation
- Biologically-Inspired Robots
- Brain-Machine Interfaces
- Calibration and Identification
- Cellular and Modular Robots
- Collision Avoidance
- Compliance and Impedance Control
- Compliant Joints and Mechanisms
- Computer Vision Applications
- Computer Vision for Automation
- Computer Vision for Medical Robotics
- Computer Vision for Transportation
- Contact Modeling, Planning and Control
- Control
- Data Sets in Robotics
- Deep Learning Methods
- Deep Learning for Visual Perception
- Deep Learning in Grasping and Manipulation
- Dexterous Manipulation
- Distributed Robot Systems
- Factory Automation
- Field Robots
- Force and Tactile Sensing
- Formal Methods in Robotics and Automation
- Grasping
- Grippers and Other End-Effectors
- Haptics and Haptic Interfaces
- Human Factors and Human-In-The-Loop
- Human and Humanoid Motion Analysis and Synthesis
- Human-Robot Collaboration
- Humanoid Robot Systems
- Humanoid and Bipedal Locomotion
- Imitation Learning
- Intelligent Transportation Systems
- Intention Recognition
- Learning from Demonstration
- Learning from Experience
- Legged Robots
- Localization
- Machine Learning for Robot Control
- Manipulation Planning
- Manufacturing Automation
- Mapping
- Marine Robotics
- Mechanism Design
- Medical Robots and Systems
- Micro/Nano Robots
- Mobile and Bimanual Manipulation
- Model Learning for Control
- Modeling, Control, and Learning for Soft Robots
- Motion Control
- Motion and Path Planning
- Multi-Robot SLAM
- Multi-Robot Systems
- Object Detection, Segmentation and Categorization
- Optimization and Optimal Control
- Parallel Robots
- Path Planning for Multiple Mobile Robots or Agents
- Perception for Grasping and Manipulation
- Perception-Action Coupling
- Physical Human-Robot Interaction
- Planning, Scheduling and Coordination
- Prosthetics and Exoskeletons
- RGB-D Perception
- Range Sensing
- Reactive and Sensor-Based Planning
- Recognition
- Reinforcement Learning
- Representation Learning
- Robot Safety
- Robotic Systems and Benchmarking
- Robotics and Automation in Agriculture and Forestry
- Robotics and Automation in Agriculture, Forestry and Construction
- SLAM
- Semantic Scene Understanding
- Sensor Fusion
- Service, Art and Entertainment Robotics
- Shared Autonomy for Physical Human-Robot Interaction
- Simulation
- Social Human-Robot Interaction
- Soft Robot Applications
- Soft Robot Materials and Design
- Soft Sensors and Actuators
- Software and Hardware
- Space Robotics and Automation
- Surgical Robotics
- Swarm Robotics
- Task and Motion Planning
- Telerobotics and Teleoperation
- Transfer Learning
- Underactuated & Redundant Robots
- Vision-Based Navigation
- Visual Learning
- Visual Servoing
- Visual Tracking
- Visual-Inertial SLAM
- Wearable Robotics
- Wheeled Robots
Actuation and Joint Mechanisms
- Convex Optimization for Spring Design in Series Elastic Actuators: From Theory to Practice
- A Safe and Rapidly Switchable Stiffness Hydrostatic Actuator through Valve-Controlled Air Springs
- Gear Ratio Optimization of a Multifunctional Walker Robot Using Dual-Motor Actuation
- Slip Modeling and Simulation of Spiral Zipper Friction-Driven Prismatic Actuator
- Design and Control of a Novel Compact Nonlinear Rotary Magnetic SEA (MSEA) for Practical Robotic Gripper Implementation
- Passive Orientation Control of Nozzle Unit with Multiple Water Jets to Expand the Net Force Direction Range for Aerial Hose-Type Robots
- Design and Analysis of High Stiffness Hyper-Redundant Manipulator with Sigma-Shaped Wire Path and Rolling Joints
- Multi-Axis Electric Stepper Motor
Aerial Systems: Applications
- Design, Integration and Implementation of an Intelligent and Self-Recharging Drone System for Autonomous Power Line Inspection
- GateNet: An Efficient Deep Neural Network Architecture for Gate Perception Using Fish-Eye Camera in Autonomous Drone Racing
- CCRobot-IV-F: A Ducted-Fan-Driven Flying-Type Bridge Stay Cable Climbing Robot
- REAL: Rapid Exploration with Active Loop-Closing Toward Large-Scale 3D Mapping Using UAVs
- Stability and Robustness Analysis of Plug-Pulling Using an Aerial Manipulator
- A Motion De-Coupled Aerial Robotic Manipulator for Better Inspection
- Dynamic Grasping with a “Soft” Drone: From Theory to Practice
- Hermes - Wind Energy Harvesting Wireless System for Sensing Angle of Attack and Wind Speed
- Toward Battery-Free Flight: Duty Cycled Recharging of Small Drones
- Aggressive Visual Perching with Quadrotors on Inclined Surfaces
- Visibility-Aware Trajectory Optimization with Application to Aerial Tracking
- Gamma-Ray Imaging with Spatially Continuous Intensity Statistics
- 3D Human Reconstruction in the Wild with Collaborative Aerial Cameras
- Non-Prehensile Manipulation of Cuboid Objects Using a Catenary Robot
Aerial Systems: Mechanics and Control
- Autonomous Cooperative Transportation System Involving Multi-Aerial Robots with Variable Attachment Mechanism
- Decentralized Control and Teleoperation of a Multi-UAV Parallel Robot Based on Intrinsic Measurements
- The New Dexterity Omnirotor Platform: Design, Modeling, and Control of a Modular, Versatile, All-Terrain Vehicle
- Design, Optimal Guidance and Control of a Low-Cost Re-Usable Electric Model Rocket
- Efficient Manoeuvring of Quadrotor under Constrained Space and Predefined Accuracy
- Design and Comparison of Tails for Bird-Scale Flapping-Wing Robots
- An Over-Actuated Multi-Rotor Aerial Vehicle with Unconstrained Attitude Angles and High Thrust Efficiencies
- Nullspace-Based Control Allocation of Overactuated UAV Platforms
- Vision-Encoder-Based Payload State Estimation for Autonomous MAV with a Suspended Payload
- Aerodynamic Modeling of Fully-Actuated Multirotor UAVs with Nonparallel Actuators
- Nonlinear Model Predictive Velocity Control of a VTOL Tiltwing UAV
- Dynamic End Effector Tracking with an Omnidirectional Parallel Aerial Manipulator
- Aerial Manipulator Suspended from a Cable-Driven Parallel Robot: Preliminary Experimental Results
- Low-Level Pose Control of Tilting Multirotor for Wall Perching Tasks Using Reinforcement Learning
- The Pursuit and Evasion of Drones Attacking an Automated Turret
- A Morphing Quadrotor That Can Optimize Morphology for Transportation
Aerial Systems: Perception and Autonomy
- Why Fly Blind? Event-Based Visual Guidance for Ornithopter Robot Flight
- Autonomous Flights in Dynamic Environments with Onboard Vision
- Avoiding Dynamic Small Obstacles with Onboard Sensing and Computation on Aerial Robots
- Target-Visible Polynomial Trajectory Generation within an MAV Team
- Multi-Resolution Elevation Mapping and Safe Landing Site Detection with Applications to Planetary Rotorcraft
- On the Visual-Based Safe Landing of UAVs in Populated Areas: A Crucial Aspect for Urban Deployment
- Autonomous Quadrotor Landing on Inclined Surfaces Using Perception-Guided Active Asymmetric Skids
- FAST-Dynamic-Vision: Detection and Tracking Dynamic Objects with Event and Depth Sensing
- DarkLighter: Light up the Darkness for UAV Tracking
- SiamAPN++: Siamese Attentional Aggregation Network for Real-Time UAV Tracking
- An Optical Spatial Localization System for Tracking Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Using a Single Dynamic Vision Sensor
- Semantic-Aware Active Perception for UAVs Using Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Real-Time Ellipse Detection for Robotics Applications
- Topology-Guided Path Planning for Reliable Visual Navigation of MAVs
- Semantically Informed Next Best View Planning for Autonomous Aerial 3D Reconstruction
Autonomous Agents
- Fast Autonomous Robotic Exploration Using the Underlying Graph Structure
- A High-Accuracy Framework for Vehicle Dynamic Modeling in Autonomous Driving
- Monitoring Object Detection Abnormalities Via Data-Label and Post-Algorithm Abstractions
- Agent-Aware State Estimation for Autonomous Vehicles
- Designing and Deploying a Mobile UVC Disinfection Robot
- The Reasonable Crowd: Towards Evidence-Based and Interpretable Models of Driving Behavior
- Mobile Manipulation-Based Deployment of Micro Aerial Robot Scouts through Constricted Aperture-Like Ingress Points
Autonomous Vehicle Navigation
- Gaussian Process-Based Interpretable Runtime Adaptation for Safe Autonomous Systems Operations in Unstructured Environments
- Latent Attention Augmentation for Robust Autonomous Driving Policies
- The Role of the Hercules Autonomous Vehicle During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Autonomous Logistic Vehicle for Contactless Goods Transportation (I)
- From Agile Ground to Aerial Navigation: Learning from Learned Hallucination
- Robust Policy Search for an Agile Ground Vehicle under Perception Uncertainty
- Road Graphical Neural Networks for Autonomous Roundabout Driving
- Monitoring and Diagnosability of Perception Systems
- On Fault Classification in Connected Autonomous Vehicles Using Output-Only Measurements
- Autonomous Drone Racing with Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Connecting Deep-Reinforcement-Learning-Based Obstacle Avoidance with Conventional Global Planners Using Waypoint Generators
- A Kinematic Model for Trajectory Prediction in General Highway Scenarios
- Unsupervised Traffic Scene Generation with Synthetic 3D Scene Graphs
- Minimizing Safety Interference for Safe and Comfortable Automated Driving with Distributional Reinforcement Learning
- Autonomous Vehicle Navigation in Semi-Structured Environments Based on Sparse Waypoints and LiDAR Road-Tracking
- Deep Semantic Segmentation at the Edge for Autonomous Navigation in Vineyard Rows
- Exploration-RRT: A Multi-Objective Path Planning and Exploration Framework for Unknown and Unstructured Environments
- Learning Inverse Kinodynamics for Accurate High-Speed Off-Road Navigation on Unstructured Terrain
- Pallet Detection and Docking Strategy for Autonomous Pallet Truck AGV Operation
- Vulnerability of Connected Autonomous Vehicles Networks to Periodic Time-Varying Communication Delays of Certain Frequency
- LiDAR Degradation Quantification for Autonomous Driving in Rain
- Map-Aided Train Navigation with IMU Measurements
- Evaluation of Long-Term LiDAR Place Recognition
- KB-Tree: Learnable and Continuous Monte-Carlo Tree Search for Autonomous Driving Planning
- Autonomous Mobile Robot Navigation Independent of Road Boundary Using Driving Recommendation Map
- Learning-Based 3D Occupancy Prediction for Autonomous Navigation in Occluded Environments
- Cooperative Autonomous Vehicles That Sympathize with Human Drivers
- Shape Estimation of Negative Obstacles for Autonomous Navigation
- Reinforcement Learning Based Negotiation-Aware Motion Planning of Autonomous Vehicles
- Interaction-Based Trajectory Prediction Over a Hybrid Traffic Graph
- Robust LiDAR Localization on an HD Vector Map without a Separate Localization Layer
- Radar Odometry on SE(3) with Constant Velocity Motion Prior
- AVP-Loc: Surround View Localization and Relocalization Based on HD Vector Map for Automated Valet Parking
- Map Compressibility Assessment for LiDAR Registration
- Online High-Level Model Estimation for Efficient Hierarchical Robot Navigation
- Disentangling and Vectorization: A 3D Visual Perception Approach for Autonomous Driving Based on Surround-View Fisheye Cameras
- Context and Orientation Aware Path Tracking
Biologically-Inspired Robots
- Water Surface Stability Prediction of Amphibious Bio-Inspired Undulatory Fin Robot
- Quasi-Static Motion of a New Serial Snake-Like Robot on a Water Surface: A Geometrical Approach
- Simulating Ocean Wave Movement in a Soft Pneumatic Surface
- Microspine-Rubber Composite for High Friction on Smooth, Rough, and Wet Surfaces
- Wing Fold and Twist Greatly Improves Flight Efficiency for Bat-Scale Flapping Wing Robots
- Development of a Bio-Inspired Soft Robotic Gripper Based on Tensegrity Structures
- A Real-Time Motion Detection and Object Tracking Framework for Future Robot-Rat Interaction
- Marine Autonomous Navigation for Biomimetic Underwater Robots Based on Deep Stereo Attention Network
- Bat Bot 2.0: Bio-Inspired Anisotropic Skin, Passive Wrist Joints, and Redesigned Flapping Mechanism
- Evolving Infotaxis for Meandering Environments
- A Method to Use Nonlinear Dynamics in a Whisker Sensor for Terrain Identification by Mobile Robots
- Robust Top-Down and Bottom-Up Visual Saliency for Mobile Robots Using Bio-Inspired Design Principles
- Design of Galloping Robots with Elastic Spine: Tracking Relations between Dynamic Model Parameters Based on Motion Analysis of a Real Cheetah
- Autonomous Decision Making in a Bioinspired Adaptive Robotic Anchoring Module
- Design and Experimental Learning of Swimming Gaits for a Magnetic, Modular, Undulatory Robot
- SENSORIMOTOR GRAPH: Action-Conditioned Graph Neural Network for Learning Robotic Soft Hand Dynamics
- Insect-Inspired Odor Intake Method for Chemical Plume Tracing in an Outdoor Environment
- Lateral Undulation of the Bendable Body of a Gecko-Inspired Robot for Energy-Efficient Inclined Surface Climbing
- Crawl and Fly: A Bio-Inspired Robot Utilizing Unified Actuation for Hybrid Aerial-Terrestrial Locomotion
- A Decentralized Bayesian Approach for Snake Robot Control
- Hoop-Passing Motion for a Snake Robot to Realize Motion Transition across Different Environments (I)
- Enabling Dynamic Behaviors with Aerodynamic Drag in Lightweight Tails (I)
Brain-Machine Interfaces
- Design of an SSVEP-Based BCI Stimuli System for Attention-Based Robot Navigation in Robotic Telepresence
- An Assistive Shared Control Architecture for a Robotic Arm Using EEG-Based BCI with Motor Imagery
- A Wearable, Open-Source, Lightweight Forcemyography Armband: On Intuitive, Robust Muscle-Machine Interfaces
- Manifold Trial Selection to Reduce Negative Transfer in Motor Imagery-Based Brain–Computer Interface
- Neurointerface Implemented with Oscillator Motifs
- Hybrid Graph Convolutional Neural Networks for Skeleton-Based and EEG-Based Lower Limb Action Recognition
- Affect-Driven Robot Behavior Learning System Using EEG Signals for Less Negative Feelings and More Positive Outcomes
Calibration and Identification
- SemAlign: Annotation-Free Camera-LiDAR Calibration with Semantic Alignment Loss
- Kalibrot: A Simple-To-Use Matlab Package for Robot Kinematic Calibration
- Odometry Model Calibration for Self-Driving Vehicles with Noise Correction
- Pixel-Level Extrinsic Self Calibration of High Resolution LiDAR and Camera in Targetless Environments
- A Two-Step Optimization for Extrinsic Calibration of Multiple Camera System (MCS) Using Depth-Weighted Normalized Points
- Learning to Calibrate - Estimating the Hand-Eye Transformation without Calibration Objects
- Single-Shot Is Enough: Panoramic Infrastructure Based Calibration of Multiple Cameras and 3D LiDARs
- Kinodynamic Model Identification: A Unified Geometric Approach (I)
Cellular and Modular Robots
- Reconfiguring Metamorphic Robots Via SMT: Is It a Viable Way?
- Balloon Animal Robots: Reconfigurable Isoperimetric Inflated Soft Robots
- Self-Reconfiguration of Modular Robots Using Virtual Forces
- CPG-Based Hierarchical Locomotion Control for Modular Quadrupedal Robots Using Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Reconfiguring Non-Convex Holes in Pivoting Modular Cube Robots
- Finding Structure Configurations for Flying Modular Robots
- Enumeration of Polyominoes & Polycubes Composed of Magnetic Cubes
Collision Avoidance
- V-RVO: Decentralized Multi-Agent Collision Avoidance Using Voronoi Diagrams and Reciprocal Velocity Obstacles
- Human-Inspired Multi-Agent Navigation Using Knowledge Distillation
- Trajectory Splitting: A Distributed Formulation for Collision Avoiding Trajectory Optimization
- Potential Gap: A Gap-Informed Reactive Policy for Safe Hierarchical Navigation
- Comparative Analysis of Control Barrier Functions and Artificial Potential Fields for Obstacle Avoidance
- DRQN-Based 3D Obstacle Avoidance with a Limited Field of View
- Crowd-Aware Robot Navigation for Pedestrians with Multiple Collision Avoidance Strategies Via Map-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning
- A Scalable Distributed Collision Avoidance Scheme for Multi-Agent UAV Systems
- Trust Your Supervisor: Quadrotor Obstacle Avoidance Using Controlled Invariant Sets
- Decentralized Multi-Robot Collision Avoidance in Complex Scenarios with Selective Communication
- Toward Observation Based Least Restrictive Collision Avoidance Using Deep Meta Reinforcement Learning
- Image-Based Online Command Adaptation and Guidance to Arbitrarily Shaped Objects for Robot-Assisted Medical Procedures
- Continuous-Time Gaussian Process Trajectory Generation for Multi-Robot Formation Via Probabilistic Inference
- Learning to Navigate in a VUCA Environment: Hierarchical Multi-Expert Approach
- A Vision-Based Irregular Obstacle Avoidance Framework Via Deep Reinforcement Learning
Compliance and Impedance Control
- Circumventing Conceptual Flaws in Classical Interaction Control Strategies
- Human Guided Trajectory and Impedance Adaptation for Tele-Operated Physical Assistance
- Impedance Control for a Flexible Robot Enhanced with Energy Tanks in the Port-Hamiltonian Framework
- Multi-Stage Energy-Aware Motion Control with Exteroception-Defined Dynamic Safety Metric
- Online Impedance Adaptation Facilitates Manipulating a Whip
- Analyzing the Performance Limits of Articulated Soft Robots Based on the ESPi Framework: Applications to Damping and Impedance Control
- Adjustable Compliance and Force Feedback As Key Elements for Stable and Efficient Hopping
- A Unified Approach for Virtual Fixtures and Goal-Driven Variable Admittance Control in Manual Guidance Applications
Compliant Joints and Mechanisms
- A Self-Biasing Shape Memory Alloy Gripper for Lightweight Applications
- A Compliant Five-Bar Legged Mechanism for Heavy-Load Legged Robots by Using Magneto-Rheological Actuators
- Parallel Variable Stiffness Actuators
- Novel Variable Stiffness Spring Mechanism: Modulating Stiffness Independent of the Energy Stored by the Spring
- Self-Sensing McKibben Artificial Muscles Embedded with Dielectric Elastomer Sensor
- An Analysis on the Modeling Accuracy of Industrial Manipulators with Inherent Joint Elasticity
- Design and Analysis of a Twisted Elastic-Rail Actuator Based on a Double-Stranded Helix Structure
Computer Vision Applications
- Using Depth Vision for Terrain Detection During Active Locomotion
- Robust and Accurate Point Set Registration with Generalized Bayesian Coherent Point Drift
- Localization and Control of Magnetic Suture Needles in Cluttered Surgical Site with Blood and Tissue
- LaneRCNN: Distributed Representations for Graph-Centric Motion Forecasting
- StereoCNC: A Stereovision-Guided Robotic Laser System
- Direct Bundle Adjustment for 3D Image Fusion with Application to Transesophageal Echocardiography
- EOMVS: Event-Based Omnidirectional Multi-View Stereo
Computer Vision for Automation
- Through the Looking Glass: Diminishing Occlusions in Robot Vision Systems with Mirror Reflections
- Similarity-Aware Fusion Network for 3D Semantic Segmentation
- RoRD: Rotation-Robust Descriptors and Orthographic Views for Local Feature Matching
- Refractive Light-Field Features for Curved Transparent Objects in Structure from Motion
- SRH-Net: Stacked Recurrent Hourglass Network for Stereo Matching
- Phase-SLAM: Mobile Structured Light Illumination for Full Body 3D Scanning
- Robotic Waste Sorting Technology: Toward a Vision-Based Categorization System for the Industrial Robotic Separation of Recyclable Waste (I)
Computer Vision for Medical Robotics
- MBAPose: Mask and Bounding-Box Aware Pose Estimation of Surgical Instruments with Photorealistic Domain Randomization
- Domain Adaptive Robotic Gesture Recognition with Unsupervised Kinematic-Visual Data Alignment
- Towards a Compact Vision-Based Auto-Focusing System for Endoscopic Laser Surgery
- Autonomous Scanning Target Localization for Robotic Lung Ultrasound Imaging
- Semi-Supervised Vein Segmentation of Ultrasound Images for Autonomous Venipuncture
- IVUS-Based Local Vessel Estimation for Robotic Intravascular Navigation
- Surgical Tool Segmentation Using Generative Adversarial Networks with Unpaired Training Data
- Real-Time 3D Navigation-Based Semi-Automatic Surgical Robotic System for Pelvic Fracture Reduction
Computer Vision for Transportation
- Unsupervised Vehicle Re-Identification Via Self-Supervised Metric Learning Using Feature Dictionary
- Monocular 3D Vehicle Detection Using Uncalibrated Traffic Cameras through Homography
- Drive on Pedestrian Walk. TUK Campus Dataset
- Stereo Waterdrop Removal with Row-Wise Dilated Attention
- Temporally-Continuous Probabilistic Prediction Using Polynomial Trajectory Parameterization
- Content Disentanglement for Semantically Consistent Synthetic-To-Real Domain Adaptation
- Cross-Modal 3D Object Detection and Tracking for Auto-Driving
Contact Modeling, Planning and Control
- Contact Tracing: A Low Cost Reconstruction Framework for Surface Contact Interpolation
- Real-Time Physically-Accurate Simulation of Robotic Snap Connection Process
- Fundamental Challenges in Deep Learning for Stiff Contact Dynamics
- Multi-Contact Locomotion Planning with Bilateral Contact Forces Considering Kinematics and Statics During Contact Transition
- Computationally Efficient HQP-Based Whole-Body Control Exploiting the Operational-Space Formulation
- Towards an Online Framework for Changing-Contact Robot Manipulation Tasks
- Experimental Verification of Stability Theory for a Planar Rigid Body with Two Unilateral Frictional Contacts (I)
Control
- Sensor Fusion-Based Anthropomorphic Control of Under-Actuated Bionic Hand in Dynamic Environment
- Model-Based Trajectory Prediction and Hitting Velocity Control for a New Table Tennis Robot
- Active Exploration and Mapping Via Iterative Covariance Regulation Over Continuous SE(3) Trajectories
- Modeling and Control of PANTHERA Self-Reconfigurable Pavement Sweeping Robot under Actuator Constraints
- Coloured Petri Nets for Monitoring Human Actions in Flexible Human-Robot Teams
- Adaptive Passivity-Based Multi-Task Tracking Control for Robotic Manipulators
- Amplification of Clamping Mechanism Using Internally-Balanced Magnetic Unit
- Distributed Tube-Based Nonlinear MPC for Motion Control of Skid-Steer Robots with Terra-Mechanical Constraints
Data Sets in Robotics
- Let’s Play for Action: Recognizing Activities of Daily Living by Learning from Life Simulation Video Games
- The Radar Ghost Dataset – an Evaluation of Ghost Objects in Automotive Radar Data
- ChangeSim: Towards End-To-End Online Scene Change Detection in Industrial Indoor Environments
- Indoor Future Person Localization from an Egocentric Wearable Camera
- Grounding Linguistic Commands to Navigable Regions
- TUM-VIE: The TUM Stereo Visual-Inertial Event Dataset
- Diverse Complexity Measures for Dataset Curation in Self-Driving
- A Dataset for Provident Vehicle Detection at Night
- Stereo Hybrid Event-Frame (SHEF) Cameras for 3D Perception
- A Photorealistic Terrain Simulation Pipeline for Unstructured Outdoor Environments
- NYU-VPR: Long-Term Visual Place Recognition Benchmark with View Direction and Data Anonymization Influences
- Topo-Boundary: A Benchmark Dataset on Topological Road-Boundary Detection Using Aerial Images for Autonomous Driving
- ROBI: A Multi-View Dataset for Reflective Objects in Robotic Bin-Picking
- A Large-Scale Dataset for Water Segmentation of SAR Satellite
- ESPADA: Extended Synthetic and Photogrammetric Aerial-Image Dataset
Deep Learning Methods
- Adversarial Training on Point Clouds for Sim-To-Real 3D Object Detection
- CrossMap Transformer: A Crossmodal Masked Path TransformerUsing Double Back-Translation for Vision-And-Language Navigation
- Case Relation Transformer: A Crossmodal Language Generation Model for Fetching Instructions
- Target-Dependent UNITER: A Transformer-Based Multimodal Language Comprehension Model for Domestic Service Robots
- Self-Critical Learning of Influencing Factors for Trajectory Prediction Using Gated Graph Convolutional Network
- Trajectory Generation in New Environments from past Experiences
- DistillPose: Lightweight Camera Localization Using Auxiliary Learning
- Identifying Valid Robot Configurations Via a Deep Learning Approach
- DiGNet: Learning Scalable Self-Driving Policies for Generic Traffic Scenarios with Graph Neural Networks
- A General Approach to State Refinement
- StyleLess Layer: Improving Robustness for Real-World Driving
- Annotation Cost Reduction of Stream-Based Active Learning by Automated Weak Labeling Using a Robot Arm
- Comprehension of Spatial Constraints by Neural Logic Learning from a Single RGB-D Scan
- A CNN Based Vision-Proprioception Fusion Method for Robust UGV Terrain Classification
- Visual-Tactile Cross-Modal Data Generation Using Residue-Fusion GAN with Feature-Matching and Perceptual Losses
Deep Learning for Visual Perception
- Geometry Guided Network for Point Cloud Registration
- Graph Guided Deformation for Point Cloud Completion
- Uncertainty-Aware Self-Supervised Learning of Spatial Perception Tasks
- ADAADepth: Adapting Data Augmentation and Attention for Self-Supervised Monocular Depth Estimation
- Unsupervised Image Segmentation by Mutual Information Maximization and Adversarial Regularization
- MLPD: Multi-Label Pedestrian Detector in Multispectral Domain
- Unsupervised Learning of Depth Estimation and Visual Odometry for Sparse Light Field Cameras
- EVReflex: Dense Time-To-Impact Prediction for Event-Based Obstacle Avoidance
- PTT: Point-Track-Transformer Module for 3D Single Object Tracking in Point Clouds
- A Registration-Aided Domain Adaptation Network for 3D Point Cloud Based Place Recognition
- INeRF: Inverting Neural Radiance Fields for Pose Estimation
- RaP-Net: A Region-Wise and Point-Wise Weighting Network to Extract Robust Features for Indoor Localization
- Differentiable Factor Graph Optimization for Learning Smoothers
- Attention Augmented ConvLSTM for Environment Prediction
- Overcoming Obstructions Via Bandwidth-Limited Multi-Agent Spatial Handshaking
- Scene Descriptor Expressing Ambiguity in Information Recovery Based on Incomplete Partial Observation
- Bootstrapped Self-Supervised Training with Monocular Video for Semantic Segmentation and Depth Estimation
- Automatic Learning System for Object Function Points from Random Shape Generation and Physical Validation
- Fast Image-Anomaly Mitigation for Autonomous Mobile Robots
- Visual Identification of Articulated Object Parts
- Unsupervised Monocular Depth Learning with Integrated Intrinsics and Spatio-Temporal Constraints
- ViNet: Pushing the Limits of Visual Modality for Audio-Visual Saliency Prediction
- MDN-VO: Estimating Visual Odometry with Confidence
- Unsupervised Deep Persistent Monocular Visual Odometry and Depth Estimation in Extreme Environments
- Correlate-And-Excite: Real-Time Stereo Matching Via Guided Cost Volume Excitation
- Improving Robot Localisation by Ignoring Visual Distraction
- Semantic Segmentation-Assisted Scene Completion for LiDAR Point Clouds
- Dynamic Domain Adaptation for Single-View 3D Reconstruction
- You Only Group Once: Efficient Point-Cloud Processing with Token Representation and Relation Inference Module
- VIPose: Real-Time Visual-Inertial 6D Object Pose Tracking
- Using Visual Anomaly Detection for Task Execution Monitoring
- Moving SLAM: Fully Unsupervised Deep Learning in Non-Rigid Scenes
- Pose Estimation from RGB Images of Highly Symmetric Objects Using a Novel Multi-Pose Loss and Differential Rendering
- Denoising 3D Human Poses from Low-Resolution Video Using Variational Autoencoder
- KDFNet: Learning Keypoint Distance Field for 6D Object Pose Estimation
- All Characteristics Preservation: Single Image Dehazing Based on Hierarchical Detail Reconstruction Wavelet Decomposition Network
- PCTMA-Net: Point Cloud Transformer with Morphing Atlas-Based Point Generation Network for Dense Point Cloud Completion
- Superline: A Robust Line Segment Feature for Visual SLAM
- ORStereo: Occlusion-Aware Recurrent Stereo Matching for 4K-Resolution Images
- Model Adaptation through Hypothesis Transfer with Gradual Knowledge Distillation
- VoluMon: Weakly Supervised Volumetric Monocular Estimation with Ellipsoid Representations
- Cross-Modal Representation Learning for Lightweight and Accurate Facial Action Unit Detection
- Stereo Matching by Self-Supervision of Multiscopic Vision
Deep Learning in Grasping and Manipulation
- Simultaneous Semantic and Collision Learning for 6-DoF Grasp Pose Estimation
- Efficient Learning of Goal-Oriented Push-Grasping Synergy in Clutter
- Iterative Coarse-To-Fine 6D-Pose Estimation Using Back-Propagation
- Understanding Human Manipulation with the Environment: A Novel Taxonomy for Video Labelling
- Excavation Learning for Rigid Objects in Clutter
- Fast-Learning Grasping and Pre-Grasping Via Clutter Quantization and Q-Map Masking
- Joint Space Control Via Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Precise Object Placement with Pose Distance Estimations for Different Objects and Grippers
- Learning to Detect Multi-Modal Grasps for Dexterous Grasping in Dense Clutter
- Double-Dot Network for Antipodal Grasp Detection
- Neural Motion Prediction for In-Flight Uneven Object Catching
- Learning a Generative Transition Model for Uncertainty-Aware Robotic Manipulation
- Occlusion-Aware Search for Object Retrieval in Clutter
- Grasp Pose Detection from a Single RGB Image
- DepthGrasp: Depth Completion of Transparent Objects Using Self-Attentive Adversarial Network with Spectral Residual for Grasping
- Reactive Long Horizon Task Execution Via Visual Skill and Precondition Models
- Efficient and Accurate Candidate Generation for Grasp Pose Detection in SE(3)
- DemoGrasp: Few-Shot Learning for Robotic Grasping with Human Demonstration
- Graph-Based Task-Specific Prediction Models for Interactions between Deformable and Rigid Objects
- GhostPose*: Multi-View Pose Estimation of Transparent Objects for Robot Hand Grasping
- Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Based Object Manipulation with Non-Parametric Policy and Action Primitives
Dexterous Manipulation
- Casting Manipulation of Unknown String by Robot Arm
- Deformation Control of a Deformable Object Based on Visual and Tactile Feedback
- A Soft Robotic Gripper with an Active Palm and Reconfigurable Fingers for Fully Dexterous In-Hand Manipulation
- The Stewart Hand: A Highly Dexterous 6-Degrees-Of-Freedom Manipulator Based on the Stewart-Gough Platform (I)
- Real-Time Safety and Control of Robotic Manipulators with Torque Saturation in Operational Space
- Robot Hand Based on a Spherical Parallel Mechanism for Within-Hand Rotations about a Fixed Point
- Learning Compliant Grasping and Manipulation by Teleoperation with Adaptive Force Control
Distributed Robot Systems
- Optimal Scheduling and Non-Cooperative Distributed Model Predictive Control for Multiple Robotic Manipulators
- OneVision: Centralized to Distributed Controller Synthesis with Delay Compensation
- Robofleet: Open Source Communication and Management for Fleets of Autonomous Robots
- Learning Connectivity for Data Distribution in Robot Teams
- Neural Tree Expansion for Multi-Robot Planning in Non-Cooperative Environments
- Deadlock Prediction and Recovery for Distributed Collision Avoidance with Buffered Voronoi Cells
- Scalable Distributed Planning for Multi-Robot, Multi-Target Tracking
Factory Automation
- State Estimation and Model-Predictive Control for Multi-Robot Handling and Tracking of AGV Motions Using IGPS
- Benchmarking Off-The-Shelf Solutions to Robotic Assembly Tasks
- Assembly Sequence Generation for New Objects Via Experience Learned from Similar Object
- Combining Learning from Demonstration with Learning by Exploration to Facilitate Contact-Rich Tasks
- Learn to Differ: Sim2Real Small Defection Segmentation Network
- Control Strategy for Jam and Wedge-Free 3D Precision Insertion of Heavy Objects Suspended with a Multi-Cable Crane
- Combining Unsupervised Muscle Co-Contraction Estimation with Bio-Feedback Allows Augmented Kinesthetic Teaching
Field Robots
- 3D Reactive Control and Frontier-Based Exploration for Unstructured Environments
- Adaptive Terrain Traversability Prediction Based on Multi-Source Transfer Gaussian Processes
- Multiclass Terrain Classification Using Sound and Vibration from Mobile Robot Terrain Interaction
- Perceptive Autonomous Stair Climbing for Quadrupedal Robots
- Trajectory Selection for Power-Over-Tether Atmospheric Sensing UAS
- CCRobot-IV: An Obstacle-Free Split-Type Quad-Ducted Propeller-Driven Bridge Stay Cable-Climbing Robot
- An Industrial Robot for Firewater Piping Inspection and Mapping
- A Mixed Reality Supervision and Telepresence Interface for Outdoor Field Robotics
Force and Tactile Sensing
- A Soft Somesthetic Robotic Finger Based on Conductive Working Liquid and an Origami Structure
- Extended Tactile Perception: Vibration Sensing through Tools and Grasped Objects
- AuraSense: Robot Collision Avoidance by Full Surface Proximity Detection
- A Low-Cost Modular System of Customizable, Versatile, and Flexible Tactile Sensor Arrays
- Self-Contained Kinematic Calibration of a Novel Whole-Body Artificial Skin for Human-Robot Collaboration
- A Multi-Chamber Smart Suction Cup for Adaptive Gripping and Haptic Exploration
- A Multi-Axis FBG-Based Tactile Sensor for Gripping in Space
- Active Visuo-Tactile Point Cloud Registration for Accurate Pose Estimation of Objects in an Unknown Workspace
- High Dynamic Range 6-Axis Force Sensor Employing a Semiconductor-Metallic Foil Strain Gauge Combination
- Tactile Scanning for Detecting Micro Bump by Strain-Sensitive Artificial Skin
- A Force Recognition System for Distinguishing Click Responses of Various Objects
- A Robust Controller for Stable 3D Pinching Using Tactile Sensing
- Dynamic Modeling of Hand-Object Interactions Via Tactile Sensing
- A Local Filtering Technique for Robot Skin Data
- Energy Generating Electronic Skin with Intrinsic Tactile Sensing without Touch Sensors (I)
Formal Methods in Robotics and Automation
- Sensor Selection for Detecting Deviations from a Planned Itinerary
- Autonomous Decision-Making with Incomplete Information and Safety Rules Based on Non-Monotonic Reasoning
- Automata-Based Optimal Planning with Relaxed Specifications
- Probabilistically Guaranteed Satisfaction of Temporal Logic Constraints During Reinforcement Learning
- Learning from Demonstrations Using Signal Temporal Logic in Stochastic and Continuous Domains
- Attainment Regions in Feature-Parameter Space for High-Level Debugging in Autonomous Robots
- A Topological Approach to Finding Coarsely Diverse Paths
- Probabilistic Specification Learning for Planning with Safety Constraints
- Modular Deep Reinforcement Learning for Continuous Motion Planning with Temporal Logic
- Safe Linear Temporal Logic Motion Planning in Dynamic Environments
- Decentralized Classification with Assume-Guarantee Planning
- Wasserstein-Splitting Gaussian Process Regression for Heterogeneous Online Bayesian Inference
- Formalizing the Execution Context of Behavior Trees for Runtime Verification of Deliberative Policies
- Probabilistic Trajectory Prediction with Structural Constraints
- Formalizing Trajectories in Human-Robot Encounters Via Probabilistic STL Inference
- Convex Approximation for LTL-Based Planning
Grasping
- Temporal Force Synergies in Human Grasping
- Trajectory-Based Split Hindsight Reverse Curriculum Learning
- Detecting Grasp Phases and Adaption of Object-Hand Interaction Forces of a Soft Humanoid Hand Based on Tactile Feedback
- SpectGRASP: Robotic Grasping by Spectral Correlation
- Assessing Grasp Quality Using Local Sensitivity Analysis
- Geometry-Based Grasping Pipeline for Bi-Modal Pick and Place
- Computing a Task-Dependent Grasp Metric Using Second-Order Cone Programs
- Multi-Object Grasping — Estimating the Number of Objects in a Robotic Grasp
- PackerBot: Variable-Sized Product Packing with Heuristic Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Geometric Characterization of the Planar Multi-Finger Equilibrium Grasps
- Formulation and Validation of an Intuitive Quality Measure for Antipodal Grasp Pose Evaluation
- Scooping Manipulation Via Motion Control with a Two-Fingered Gripper and Its Application to Bin Picking
- DDGC: Generative Deep Dexterous Grasping in Clutter
- Planning Grasps with Suction Cups and Parallel Grippers Using Superimposed Segmentation of Object Meshes (I)
Grippers and Other End-Effectors
- A Three-Fingered Adaptive Gripper with Multiple Grasping Modes
- Dexterous Textile Manipulation Using Electroadhesive Fingers
- A Series Elastic, Compact Differential Mechanism: On the Development of Adaptive, Lightweight Robotic Grippers and Hands
- Computational Design of Reconfigurable Underactuated Linkages for Adaptive Grippers
- A Multi-Modal Robotic Gripper with a Reconfigurable Base: Improving Dexterous Manipulation without Compromising Grasping Efficiency
- Grasping with Embedded Synergies through a Reconfigurable Electric Actuation Topology
- An Under-Actuated Whippletree Mechanism Gripper Based on Multi-Objective Design Optimization with Auto-Tuned Weights
- A Caging Inspired Gripper Using Flexible Fingers and a Movable Palm
- The Role of Digit Arrangement in Soft Robotic In-Hand Manipulation
- A Dexterous, Reconfigurable Robot Hand Combining Anthropomorphic and Interdigitated Configurations
- A Computational Framework for Robot Hand Design Via Reinforcement Learning
- Variable-Grasping-Mode Gripper with Different Finger Structures for Grasping Small-Sized Items
- Force Control with Friction Compensation in a Pneumatic Gripper
- Analysis of Fingertip Force Vector for Pinch-Lifting Gripper with Robust Adaptation to Environments (I)
Haptics and Haptic Interfaces
- Design and Validation of a Smartphone-Based Haptic Feedback System for Gait Training
- Robotic Guidance System for Visually Impaired Users Running Outdoors Using Haptic Feedback
- Variable Stiffness Folding Joints for Haptic Feedback
- Can a Vibrotactile Stimulation on Fingertips Make an Illusion of Elbow Joint Movement?
- Two-Stage Optimization of a Reconfigurable Asymmetric 6-DOF Haptic Robot for Task-Specific Workspace
- Stable Haptic Teleoperation of UAVs Via Small L2 Gain and Control Barrier Functions
- A Novel Testbed for Investigating the Impact of Teleoperator Dynamics on Perceived Environment Dynamics
Human Factors and Human-In-The-Loop
- Effect of Display Response Time on Brain Activity in Human–Machine Interface Commander Operation
- Improving Driver Situation Awareness Prediction Using Human Visual Sensory and Memory Mechanism
- Asking the Right Questions: Facilitating Semantic Constraint Specification for Robot Skill Learning and Repair
- Using Bayesian Optimization to Identify Optimal Exoskeleton Parameters Targeting Propulsion Mechanics: A Simulation Study
- What Information Should a Robot Convey?
- Not All Users Are the Same: Providing Personalized Explanations for Sequential Decision Making Problems
- Online Recognition of Bimanual Coordination Provides Important Context for Movement Data in Bimanual Teleoperated Robots
- Iterative Program Synthesis for Adaptable Social Navigation
Human and Humanoid Motion Analysis and Synthesis
- Multitask Variational Autoencoding of Human-To-Human Object Handover
- Synergetic Gait Prediction for Stroke Rehabilitation with Varying Walking Speeds
- Organization and Understanding of a Tactile Information Dataset TacAct for Physical Human-Robot Interactions
- Towards Human Haptic Gesture Interpretation for Robotic Systems
- State Estimation of a Partially Observable Multi-Link System with No Joint Encoders Incorporating External Dead-Reckoning
- Computationally Affordable Hierarchical Framework for Humanoid Robot Control
- Domain and View-Point Agnostic Hand Action Recognition
Human-Robot Collaboration
- Online Verification of Impact-Force-Limiting Control for Physical Human-Robot Interaction
- Dual-Filtering for On-Line Simultaneously Estimate Weights and Phase Parameter of Probabilistic Movement Primitives for Human-Robot Collaboration
- Sampling-Based Inverse Reinforcement Learning Algorithms with Safety Constraints
- Radar Based Target Tracking and Classification for Efficient Robot Speed Control in Fenceless Environments
- “Safe Skin” - a Low-Cost Capacitive Proximity-Force-Fusion Sensor for Safety in Robots
- Real-Time Obstacle Avoidance Using Dual-Type Proximity Sensor for Safe Human-Robot Interaction
- Human-Robot Collaboration: Optimizing Stress and Productivity Based on Game Theory
- Learning to Share Autonomy across Repeated Interaction
- Cooperative Assistance in Robotic Surgery through Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
- Improving Competence Via Iterative State Space Refinement
- An Analysis of Human-Robot Information Streams to Inform Dynamic Autonomy Allocation
- Extending Referring Expression Generation through Shared Knowledge about past Human-Robot Collaborative Activity
- Learning and Interactive Design of Shared Control Templates
- A Safety-Aware Architecture for Task Scheduling and Execution for Human-Robot Collaboration
- Human-Robot Collaboration for Heavy Object Manipulation: Kinesthetic Teaching of the Role of Wheeled Mobile Manipulator
- Non-Local Graph Convolutional Network for Joint Prediction of Activity Recognition and Future Motion
- PiPo-Net: A Semi-Automatic and Polygon-Based Annotation Method for Pathological Images
- Multi-Scenario Contacts Handling for Collaborative Robots Applications
- Generating Active Explicable Plans in Human-Robot Teaming
- Telemanipulation Via Virtual Reality Interfaces with Enhanced Environment Models
- A Transformable Human-Carrying Wheel–leg Mobility for Daily Use
- Probabilistic Decision Model for Adaptive Task Planning in Human-Robot Collaborative Assembly Based on Designer and Operator Intents
Humanoid Robot Systems
- Dynamical Effect of Elastically Supported Wobbling Mass on Biped Running
- Dynamic Fall Recovery Motion Generation on Biped Robot with Shell Protector
- Human Trajectory Prediction Model and Its Coupling with a Walking Pattern Generator of a Humanoid Robot
- Communicative Learning with Natural Gestures for Embodied Navigation Agents with Human-In-The-Scene
- The ARoA Platform: An Autonomous Robotic Assistant with a Reconfigurable Torso System and Dexterous Manipulation Capabilities
- Dynamic Humanoid Locomotion Over Rough Terrain with Streamlined Perception-Control Pipeline
- Drop Prevention Control for Humanoid Robots Carrying Stacked Boxes
Humanoid and Bipedal Locomotion
- Fast Online Planning for Bipedal Locomotion Via Centroidal Model Predictive Gait Synthesis
- Knee-Stretched Biped Gait Generation Along Spatially Quantized Curves
- Humanoid Loco-Manipulations Pattern Generation and Stabilization Control
- Robust Feedback Motion Policy Design Using Reinforcement Learning on a 3D Digit Bipedal Robot
- Learning When to Switch: Composing Controllers to Traverse a Sequence of Terrain Artifacts
- Impact Invariant Control with Applications to Bipedal Locomotion
- Learning Linear Policies for Robust Bipedal Locomotion on Terrains with Varying Slopes
Imitation Learning
- Vision-Based Autonomous Car Racing Using Deep Imitative Reinforcement Learning
- Learning by Watching: Physical Imitation of Manipulation Skills from Human Videos
- Contrastively Learning Visual Attention As Affordance Cues from Demonstrations for Robotic Grasping
- Seeing All the Angles: Learning Multiview Manipulation Policies for Contact-Rich Tasks from Demonstrations
- Adaptive T-Momentum-Based Optimization for Unknown Ratio of Outliers in Amateur Data in Imitation Learning
- Robust Behavior Cloning with Adversarial Demonstration Detection
- State-Only Imitation Learning for Dexterous Manipulation
- Generalization through Hand-Eye Coordination: An Action Space for Learning Spatially-Invariant Visuomotor Control
- Imitation Learning with Approximated Behavior Cloning Loss
- Risk Averse Bayesian Reward Learning for Autonomous Navigation from Human Demonstration
- Decentralized, Unlabeled Multi-Agent Navigation in Obstacle-Rich Environments Using Graph Neural Networks
- Multi-Robot Coverage and Exploration Using Spatial Graph Neural Networks
- Unsupervised Temporal Segmentation Using Models That Discriminate between Demonstrations and Unintentional Actions
- Imitation Learning with Additional Constraints on Motion Style Using Parametric Bias
- Transformer-Based Deep Imitation Learning for Dual-Arm Robot Manipulation
Intelligent Transportation Systems
- Dynamic Lambda-Field: A Counterpart of the Bayesian Occupancy Grid for Risk Assessment in Dynamic Environments
- 3D Radar Velocity Maps for Uncertain Dynamic Environments
- Extended VINS-Mono: A Systematic Approach for Absolute and Relative Vehicle Localization in Large-Scale Outdoor Environments
- Automated Type-Aware Traffic Speed Prediction Based on Sparse Intelligent Camera System
- Vision-Based Control of an Unknown Suspended Payload with a Multirotor
- Gridlock-Free Autonomous Parking Lots for Autonomous Vehicles
- Maneuver-Based Trajectory Prediction for Self-Driving Cars Using Spatio-Temporal Convolutional Networks
- Decoder Fusion RNN: Context and Interaction Aware Decoders for Trajectory Prediction
- Finding Failures in High-Fidelity Simulation Using Adaptive Stress Testing and the Backward Algorithm
- Fine-Grained Off-Road Semantic Segmentation and Mapping Via Contrastive Learning
- Multiple Contextual Cues Integrated Trajectory Prediction for Autonomous Driving
- Vehicle Dispatch in On-Demand Ride-Sharing with Stochastic Travel Times
- BEV-Net: A Bird’s Eye View Object Detection Network for LiDAR Point Cloud
- Cooperative Transportation Robot System Using Risk-Sensitive Stochastic Control
- Diverse Critical Interaction Generation for Planning and Planner Evaluation
- Interpretable Goal Recognition in the Presence of Occluded Factors for Autonomous Vehicles
- Semi-Cooperative Control for Autonomous Emergency Vehicles
- RV-FuseNet: Range View Based Fusion of Time-Series LiDAR Data for Joint 3D Object Detection and Motion Forecasting
- A Simple and Efficient Multi-Task Network for 3D Object Detection and Road Understanding
- DeepSIL: A Software-In-The-Loop Framework for Evaluating Motion Planning Schemes Using Multiple Trajectory Prediction Networks
- Joint Intention and Trajectory Prediction Based on Transformer
Intention Recognition
- An Efficient Understandability Objective for Dynamic Optimal Control
- A Multimodal and Hybrid Framework for Human Navigational Intent Inference
- Multi-Modal Scene-Compliant User Intention Estimation in Navigation
- Simultaneous Prediction of Pedestrian Trajectory and Actions Based on Context Information Iterative Reasoning
- Safety-Oriented Pedestrian Occupancy Forecasting
- GRIT: Fast, Interpretable, and Verifiable Goal Recognition with Learned Decision Trees for Autonomous Driving
- CovarianceNet: Conditional Generative Model for Correct Covariance Prediction in Human Motion Prediction
Learning from Demonstration
- Learning Forceful Manipulation Skills from Multi-Modal Human Demonstrations
- ILoSA: Interactive Learning of Stiffness and Attractors
- A Marginal Log-Likelihood Approach for the Estimation of Discount Factors of Multiple Experts in Inverse Reinforcement Learning
- Towards Coordinated Robot Motions: End-To-End Learning of Motion Policies on Transform Trees
- Learning to Optimize Control Policies and Evaluate Reproduction Performance from Human Demonstrations
- Learning from Successful and Failed Demonstrations Via Optimization
- A Novel Curved Gaussian Mixture Model and Its Application in Motion Skill Encoding
Learning from Experience
- In-Air Knotting of Rope Using Dual-Arm Robot Based on Deep Learning
- Automated Generation of Robotic Planning Domains from Observations
- Behavior Self-Organization Supports Task Inference for Continual Robot Learning
- CRIL: Continual Robot Imitation Learning Via Generative and Prediction Model
- Adaptive Robotic Tool-Tip Control Learning Considering Online Changes in Grasping State
- Ontology-Assisted Generalisation of Robot Action Execution Knowledge
- Self-Body Image Acquisition and Posture Generation with Redundancy Using Musculoskeletal Humanoid Shoulder Complex for Object Manipulation
Legged Robots
- Legged Robot State Estimation with Dynamic Contact Event Information
- Tachyon: Design and Control of High Payload, Robust, and Dynamic Quadruped Robot with Series-Parallel Elastic Actuators
- Modeling and Trajectory Optimization for Standing Long Jumping of a Quadruped with a Preloaded Elastic Prismatic Spine
- The Usage of Kinematic Singularities to Produce Periodic High-Powered Locomotion
- Quadrupedal Template Model for the Parametric Stability Analysis of Trotting Gaits
- Coupling-Dependent Convergence Behavior of Phase Oscillators with Tegotae-Control
- Towards Autonomous Area Inspection with a Bio-Inspired Underwater Legged Robot
- Development of Rotating Workspace Ground Contact Force Observer for Legged Robot
- Instantaneous Capture Input for Balancing the Variable Height Inverted Pendulum
- Design of a Large-Scale Electrically-Actuated Quadruped Robot and Locomotion Control for the Narrow Passage
- Force-Feedback Based Whole-Body Stabilizer for Position-Controlled Humanoid Robots
- Adaptive Force-Based Control for Legged Robots
- Quadruped Robot Hopping on Two Legs
- Trotting and Pacing Locomotion of a Position-Controlled Quadruped Robot
- A Hierarchical Framework for Quadruped Locomotion Based on Reinforcement Learning
- Linear Policies Are Sufficient to Enable Low-Cost Quadrupedal Robots to Traverse Rough Terrain
- Verifying Safe Transitions between Dynamic Motion Primitives on Legged Robots
- Rapid Stability Margin Estimation for Contact-Rich Locomotion
- GPU-Accelerated Rapid Planar Region Extraction for Dynamic Behaviors on Legged Robots
- Animal Gaits on Quadrupedal Robots Using Motion Matching and Model-Based Control
- Run Like a Dog: Learning Based Whole-Body Control Framework for Quadruped Gait Style Transfer
Localization
- Coarse-To-Fine Semantic Localization with HD Map for Autonomous Driving in Structural Scenes
- High Accuracy Three-Dimensional Self-Localization Using Visual Markers and Inertia Measurement Unit
- Online Spatio-Temporal Calibration of Tightly-Coupled Ultrawideband-Aided Inertial Localization
- Heading Estimation Using Ultra-Wideband Received Signal Strength and Gaussian Processes
- DPLVO: Direct Point-Line Monocular Visual Odometry
- SemSegMap - 3D Segment-Based Semantic Localization
- Recalling Direct 2D-3D Matches for Large-Scale Visual Localization
- Finding Robust 2D-To-3D Correspondence with LSTM Score Estimation for Camera Localization
- Deep Unsupervised Learning Based Visual Odometry with Multi-Scale Matching and Latent Feature Constraint
- EventVLAD : Visual Place Recognition with Reconstructed Edges from Event Cameras
- Localization with Directional Coordinates
- A Hierarchical Dual Model of Environment and Place-Specific Utility for Visual Place Recognition
- Monte-Carlo Localization in Underground Parking Lots Using Parking Slot Numbers
- Real-Time Geo-Localization Using Satellite Imagery and Topography for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
- Cross-Layer Configuration Optimization for Localization on Resource-Constrained Devices
- BSP-MonoLoc: Basic Semantic Primitives Based Monocular Localization on Roads
- Ground Encoding: Learned Factor Graph-Based Models for Localizing Ground Penetrating Radar
- CLMM-Net: Robust Cascaded LiDAR Map Matching Based onMulti-Level Intensity Map
- DLL: Direct LIDAR Localization. a Map-Based Localization Approach for Aerial Robots
- Real-Time Multi-Adaptive-Resolution-Surfel 6D LiDAR Odometry Using Continuous-Time Trajectory Optimization
- Efficient Localisation Using Images and OpenStreetMaps
- Direct Near-Infrared-Depth Visual SLAM with Active Lighting
- A Computationally Efficient Moving Horizon Estimator for Ultra-Wideband Localization on Small Quadrotors
Machine Learning for Robot Control
- Learning to Play Pursuit-Evasion with Visibility Constraints
- Online Learning of Unknown Dynamics for Model-Based Controllers in Legged Locomotion
- Learning-Based Robust Motion Planning with Guaranteed Stability: A Contraction Theory Approach
- InsertionNet - a Scalable Solution for Insertion
- Object Picking Using a Two-Fingered Gripper Measuring the Deformation and Slip Detection Based on a 3-Axis Tactile Sensing
- Learning to Control an Unstable System with One Minute of Data: Leveraging Gaussian Process Differentiation in Predictive Control
- OHPL: One-Shot Hand-Eye Policy Learner
- NaturalNets: Simplified Biological Neural Networks for Learning Complex Tasks
- Talk the Talk and Walk the Walk: Dialogue-Driven Navigation in Unknown Indoor Environments
- ORCHID: Optimisation of Robotic Control and Hardware in Design Using Reinforcement Learning
- Many-Joint Robot Arm Control with Recurrent Spiking Neural Networks
- Bootstrapping Motor Skill Learning with Motion Planning
- Towards Safe Navigation through Crowded Dynamic Environments
- Self-Balancing Online Dataset for Incremental Driving Intelligence
- Coarse-To-Fine for Sim-To-Real: Sub-Millimetre Precision across Wide Task Spaces
- Hannes Prosthesis Control Based on Regression Machine Learning Algorithms
- Learning-Based Contact Status Recognition for Peg-In-Hole Assembly
- Binary Neural Network in Robotic Manipulation: Flexible Object Manipulation for Humanoid Robot Using Partially Binarized Auto-Encoder on FPGA
- STFP: Simultaneous Traffic Scene Forecasting and Planning for Autonomous Driving
- Learning Contact-Rich Skills Using Residual Admittance Policy
- ObserveNet Control: A Vision-Dynamics Learning Approach to Predictive Control in Autonomous Vehicles
Manipulation Planning
- TrajectoTree: Trajectory Optimization Meets Tree Search for Planning Multi-Contact Dexterous Manipulation
- Geometry-Based Two-Contact Inverse Kinematic Solution for Whole Arm Manipulation
- Can Robots Refill a Supermarket Shelf?: Motion Planning and Grasp Control (I)
- Efficient Task Planning for Mobile Manipulation: A Virtual Kinematic Chain Perspective
- Efficient Picking by Considering Simultaneous Two-Object Grasping
- Search-Based Path Planning for a High Dimensional Manipulator in Cluttered Environments Using Optimization-Based Primitives
- NMPC-MP: Real-Time Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for Safe Motion Planning in Manipulator Teleoperation
- Planning Robotic Manipulation with Tight Environment Constraints
- Motion and Force Planning for Manipulating Heavy Objects by Pivoting
- Coordinated Motion Generation and Object Placement: A Reactive Planning and Landing Approach
- Dynamic Pre-Grasp Planning When Tracing a Moving Object through a Multi-Agent Perspective
- Learning to Hit: A Statistical Dynamical System Based Approach
- Dynamic Grasping with Reachability and Motion Awareness
- Learning Initial Trajectory Using Sequence-To-Sequence Approach to Warm Start an Optimization-Based Motion Planner
- Understanding and Segmenting Human Demonstrations into Reusable Compliant Primitives
Manufacturing Automation
- Textile Taxonomy and Classification Using Pulling and Twisting
- Learning of Parameters in Behavior Trees for Movement Skills
- On Step-And-Scan Trajectories Used in Wafer Scanners in Semiconductor Manufacturing
- Energy-Efficient Mobile Robot Control Via Run-Time Monitoring of Environmental Complexity and Computing Workload
- Adaptive Optimization of Autonomous Vehicle Computational Resources for Performance and Energy Improvement
- Design of a New Robot End-Effector Based on Compliant Constant-Force Mechanism
- A New Method for Generating Work Piece Surface Representations for Robotic Machining
Mapping
- What’s Best for My Mesh? Convex or Non-Convex Regularisation for Mesh Optimisation
- Local to Global Plane Regularity Aggregation for Dense Surfel Mapping
- Smooth Mesh Estimation from Depth Data Using Non-Smooth Convex Optimization
- DeepRelativeFusion: Dense Monocular SLAM Using Single-Image Relative Depth Prediction
- Automatic Construction of Lane-Level HD Maps for Urban Scenes
- CLINS: Continuous-Time Trajectory Estimation for LiDAR Inertial System
- An Efficient and Continuous Representation for Occupancy Mapping with Random Mapping
- Moving Object Segmentation in 3D LiDAR Data: A Learning-Based Approach Exploiting Sequential Data
- R2LIVE: A Robust, Real-Time, LiDAR-Inertial-Visual Tightly-Coupled State Estimator and Mapping
- Endo-Depth-And-Motion: Reconstruction and Tracking in Endoscopic Videos Using Depth Networks and Photometric Constraints
- CRMI: Confidence-Rich Mutual Information for Information-Theoretic Mapping
- 3D Shape Reconstruction of Small Bodies from Sparse Features
- Adaptive Hyperparameter Tuning for Black-Box LiDAR Odometry
- CatChatter: Acoustic Perception for Mobile Robots
Marine Robotics
- An Open-Source, Fiducial-Based, Underwater Stereo Visual-Inertial Localization Method with Refraction Correction
- Cooperative ASV/AUV System Exploiting Active Acoustic Localization
- Coordinated Path Planning for Surface Acoustic Beacons for Supporting Underwater Localization
- Shipborne Sea-Ice Field Mapping Using a LiDAR
- 3D Ensemble-Based Online Oceanic Flow Field Estimation for Underwater Glider Path Planning
- Leveraging Metadata in Representation Learning with Georeferenced Seafloor Imagery
- Online Kinematic and Dynamic Parameter Estimation for Autonomous Surface and Underwater Vehicles
- Towards Robust Visual Diver Detection Onboard Autonomous Underwater Robots: Assessing the Effect of Models and Data
- Predicting the Future Motion of Divers for Enhanced Underwater Human-Robot Collaboration
- Efficient LiDAR-Based In-Water Obstacle Detection and Segmentation by Autonomous Surface Vehicles in Aquatic Environments
- Robust Data Association for Multi-Object Detection in Maritime Environments Using Camera and Radar Measurements
- ShorelineNet: An Efficient Deep Learning Approach for Shoreline Semantic Segmentation for Unmanned Surface Vehicles
- AquaVis: A Perception-Aware Autonomous Navigation Framework for Underwater Vehicles
- From Aerobatics to Hydrobatics: Agile Trajectory Planning and Tracking for Micro Underwater Robots
- A Predictive Control Framework for Stabilizing a Manipulator-Assisted UAV Landing Platform on a Disturbed USV
- Invariant Extended Kalman Filtering for Underwater Navigation
- Long-Term Autonomy for AUVs Operating under Uncertainties in Dynamic Marine Environments
- Embedded Stochastic Field Exploration with Micro Diving Agents Using Bayesian Optimization-Guided Tree-Search and GMRFs
- Stochastic Guidance of Buoyancy Controlled Vehicles under Ice Shelves Using Ocean Currents
- Thrust Direction Control of an Underactuated Oscillating Swimming Robot
Mechanism Design
- Control-Aware Design Optimization for Bio-Inspired Quadruped Robots
- Singularity-Aware Design Optimization for Multi-Degree-Of-Freedom Spatial Linkages
- Embedding a Nonlinear Strict Oscillatory Mode into a Segmented Leg
- A Novel Design of Mobile Robotic System for Opening and Transitioning through a Watertight Ship Door
- Designing Rotary Linkages for Polar Motions
- Modular Two-Degree-Of-Freedom Transformable Wheels Capable of Overcoming Obstacle
- Dynamic Analysis of an Inverted Pendulum Robot with Transformable Wheels for Overcoming Steps
- BogieBot: A Climbing Robot in Cluttered Confined Space of Bogies with Ferrous Metal Surfaces
- Design and Analysis of FCSTAR, a Hybrid Flying and Climbing Sprawl Tuned Robot
- Design and Analysis of a Robotic Out-Pipe Grinding System with Friction Actuating
- Modular Pipe Climber III with Three-Output Open Differential
- Modeling and Analysis of Tensegrity Robot for Passive Dynamic Walking
- A Highly Maneuverable Hybrid Energy-Efficient Rolling/Flying System
- HanGrawler 2: Super-High-Speed and Large-Payload Ceiling Mobile Robot Using Crawler
- Mechanical Design and Evaluation of a Selectively-Actuated MRI-Compatible Continuum Neurosurgical Robot
Medical Robots and Systems
- Modeling a Symmetrically-Notched Continuum Neurosurgical Robot with Non-Constant Curvature and Superelastic Property
- Dynamic-Based RCM Torque Controller for Robotic-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery
- Multiobjective Trajectory Tracking of a Flexible Tool During Robotic Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy
- Image-Guided Control of an Endoscopic Robot for OCT Path Scanning
- A Novel Wax Based Piezo Actuator for Autonomous Deep Anterior Lamellar Keratoplasty (Piezo-DALK)
- W-ROMA: A Wearable Robotic Device for Assistive Navigation and Object Manipulation
- Capturing Skill State in Curriculum Learning for Human Skill Acquisition
- Deformation-Aware Robotic 3D Ultrasound
- Feasibility of Remote Landmark Identification for Cricothyrotomy Using Robotic Palpation
- Force Feedback on Hand Rest Function in Master Manipulator for Robotic Surgery
- SurRoL: An Open-Source Reinforcement Learning Centered and dVRK Compatible Platform for Surgical Robot Learning
- Analytical Tip Force Estimation on Tendon-Driven Catheters through Inverse Solution of Cosserat Rod Model
- Towards Safe in Situ Needle Manipulation for Robot Assisted Lumbar Injection in Interventional MRI
- Design, Actuation, and Control of an MRI-Powered Untethered Robot for Wireless Capsule Endoscopy
- A Robotic Healthcare Assistant for COVID-19 Emergency (I)
- Digital Innovation Hubs in Health-Care Robotics Fighting COVID-19: Novel Support for Patients and Health-Care Workers across Europe (I)
- Medical Robots for Infectious Diseases: Lessons and Challenges from the COVID-19 Pandemic (I)
- A Tapered Soft Robotic Oropharyngeal Swab for Throat Testing (I)
- A Dual Doctor-Patient Twin Paradigm for Transparent Remote Examination, Diagnosis, and Rehabilitation
- Robust Event Detection Based on Spatio-Temporal Latent Action Unit Using Skeletal Information
- Towards a Manipulator System for Disposal of Waste from Patients Undergoing Chemotherapy
- A Static Model for a Stiffness-Adjustable Snake-Like Robot
Micro/Nano Robots
- Precise Control of Magnetized Macrophage Cell Robot for Targeted Drug Delivery
- Development of a Vision-Based Robotic Manipulation System for Transferring of Oocytes
- Hybrid Magnetic Force and Torque Actuation of Miniature Helical Robots Using Mobile Coils to Accelerate Blood Clot Removal
- Adaptive Tracking Controller for an Alginate Artificial Cell
- Automatic Cell Rotation Based on Real-Time Detection and Tracking
- Autonomous Object Harvesting Using Synchronized Optoelectronic Microrobots
- Keeping It Simple: Bio-Inspired Threshold-Based Strain Sensing for Micro-Aerial Vehicles
- Simultaneous Actuation and Localization of Magnetic Robots Using Mobile Coils and Eye-In-Hand Hall-Effect Sensors
- Enhancing Swimming and Pumping Performance of Helical Swimmers at Low Reynolds Numbers
- Modeling of Bilayer Hydrogel Springs for Microrobots with Adaptive Locomotion
- Low Voltage Control of Micro-Ionic Thrusters Using the Electrostatic Induced Potential of the Collector
- Open-Loop Magnetic Actuation of Helical Robots Using Position-Constrained Rotating Dipole Field
- Analysis of the Effect of Clearance in Spherical Joints on the Rotation Accuracy of Parallel Type Micro-Robotic Systems
- A Portable Remote Optoelectronic Tweezer System for Microobjects Manipulation
Mobile and Bimanual Manipulation
- Mobile Manipulation Hackathon: Moving into Real World Applications (I)
- Optimal Order Pick-And-Place of Objects in Cluttered Scene by a Mobile Manipulator
- Simultaneous Scene Reconstruction and Whole-Body Motion Planning for Safe Operation in Dynamic Environments
- Effect of Assembly Design on a Walking Multi-Arm Robotics for In-Space Assembly
- A Multi-Target Trajectory Planning of a 6-DoF Free-Floating Space Robot Via Reinforcement Learning
- Disentangling Dense Multi-Cable Knots
- Design and Evaluation of a Hair Combing System Using a General-Purpose Robotic Arm
Model Learning for Control
- GloCAL: Glocalized Curriculum-Aided Learning of Multiple Tasks with Application to Robotic Grasping
- Multi-Scale Aggregation with Self-Attention Network for Modeling Electrical Motor Dynamics
- A Robust Data-Driven Approach for Dynamics Model Identification in Trajectory Planning
- Guiding Robot Model Construction with Prior Features
- A Novel Quotient Space Approach to Model-Based Fault Detection and Isolation: Theory and Preliminary Simulation Evaluation
- Particle MPC for Uncertain and Learning-Based Control
- DMotion: Robotic Visuomotor Control with Unsupervised Forward Model Learned from Videos
Modeling, Control, and Learning for Soft Robots
- Soft Robot Configuration Estimation and Control Using Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
- A Parameter Identification Method for Static Cosserat Rod Models: Application to Soft Material Actuators with Exteroceptive Sensors
- Analytical Modeling of a Soft Pneu-Net Actuator Based on Finite Strain Beam Theory
- Soft-CCD Algorithm for Inverse Kinematics of Soft Continuum Manipulators
- Shape-Centric Modeling for Soft Robot Inchworm Locomotion
- SoPrA: Fabrication & Dynamical Modeling of a Scalable Soft Continuum Robotic Arm with Integrated Proprioceptive Sensing
- Dynamic Modelling and Visco-Elastic Parameter Identification of a Fibre-Reinforced Soft Fluidic Elastomer Manipulator
- Sim2Sim Evaluation of a Novel Data-Efficient Differentiable Physics Engine for Tensegrity Robots
- Soft Manipulator Fault Detection and Identification Using ANC-Based LSTM
- Position Control and Variable-Height Trajectory Tracking of a Soft Pneumatic Legged Robot
- Task Driven Skill Learning in a Soft-Robotic Arm
- Design and Control of Pneumatic Systems for Soft Robotics: A Simulation Approach
- Constant Fluidic Mass Control for Soft Actuators Using Artificial Neural Network Algorithm
- Koopman-Based Control of a Soft Continuum Manipulator under Variable Loading Conditions
- Closed-Loop Position Control of a Self-Sensing 3-DoF Origami Module with Pneumatic Actuators
- Discrete Cosserat Approach for Closed-Chain Soft Robots: Application to the Fin-Ray® Finger (I)
- Manipulating a Whip in 3D Via Dynamic Primitives
- A Hybrid Dual Jacobian Approach for Autonomous Control of Concentric Tube Robots in Unknown Constrained Environments
- Dynamics Computation of a Hybrid Multi-Link Humanoid Robot Integrating Rigid and Soft Bodies
- A Control and Drive System for Pneumatic Soft Robots: PneuSoRD
- Flow Path Optimization for Soft Pneumatic Actuators: Towards Optimal Performance and Portability
Motion Control
- Exponential Stability of Trajectory Tracking Control in the Orientation Space Utilizing Unit Quaternions
- Control of Spherical Robots on Uneven Terrains
- Area Defense and Surveillance on Rectangular Regions Using Control Barrier Functions
- Robust Feedback Motion Primitives for Exploration of Unknown Terrains
- On Energy-Preserving Motion in Twisted String Actuators
- Learning-Based Balance Control of Wheel-Legged Robots
- Source Seeking Control of Unicycle Robots with 3D-Printed Flexible Piezoresistive Sensors (I)
Motion and Path Planning
- B-Spline Path Planner for Safe Navigation of Mobile Robots
- Closed-Loop Fast Marching Tree (CL-FMT*) with Application to Helicopter Landing Trajectory Planning
- Informed Autonomous Exploration of Subterranean Environments
- UV-C Mobile Robots with Optimized Path Planning Can Improve Surface Disinfection against SARS-CoV-2 (I)
- Exploring Learning for Intercepting Projectiles with a Robot-Held Stick
- Disruption-Limited Planning for Robot Navigation in Dynamic Environments
- Spatial Constraint Generation for Motion Planning in Dynamic Environments
- Trajectory Optimization for Rendezvous Planning Using Quadratic Bezier Curves
- Unsupervised Path Regression Networks
- Path-Constrained Optimal Trajectory Planning for Robot Manipulators with Obstacle Avoidance
- CR-LSTM: Collision-Prior Guided Social Refinement for Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction
- Robust and Recursively Feasible Real-Time Trajectory Planning in Unknown Environments
- PILOT: Efficient Planning by Imitation Learning and Optimisation for Safe Autonomous Driving
- Exploring Imitation Learning for Autonomous Driving with Feedback Synthesizer and Differentiable Rasterization
- Interpretable Run-Time Prediction and Planning in Co-Robotic Environments
- HyperPlan: A Framework for Motion Planning Algorithm Selection and Parameter Optimization
- Designing Human-Robot Coexistence Space
- APPLE: Adaptive Planner Parameter Learning from Evaluative Feedback
- Generation of Human-Like Arm Motions Using Sampling-Based Motion Planning
- PlannerFlows: Learning Motion Samplers with Normalising Flows
- Safe and Fast Path Planner for Minimally Invasive Surgery
- DT*: Temporal Logic Path Planning in a Dynamic Environment
- Mobile Recharger Path Planning and Recharge Scheduling in a Multi-Robot Environment
- Geometric Motion Planning for a System on the Cylindrical Surface
- Section Patterns: Efficiently Solving Narrow Passage Problems in Multilevel Motion Planning (I)
- PG-RRT: A Gaussian Mixture Model Driven, Kinematically Constrained Bi-Directional RRT for Robot Path Planning
- Accelerating Kinodynamic RRT* through Dimensionality Reduction
- Risk-Averse RRT* Planning with Nonlinear Steering and Tracking Controllers for Nonlinear Robotic Systems under Uncertainty
- Learning When to Quit: Meta-Reasoning for Motion Planning
- Joint Sampling and Trajectory Optimization Over Graphs for Online Motion Planning
- Path Planning for Robotic Manipulators in Dynamic Environments Using Distance Information
- Variable-Speed Traveling Salesman Problem for Vehicles with Curvature Constrained Trajectories
- Risk-Aware Submodular Optimization for Stochastic Travelling Salesperson Problem
- Fast Generation of Obstacle-Avoiding Motion Primitives for Quadrotors
- Roadmap for Visibility-Based Target Tracking: Iterative Construction and Motion Strategy
- Discrete Optimization of Adaptive State Lattices for Iterative Motion Planning on Unmanned Ground Vehicles
- Learning Continuous Cost-To-Go Functions for Non-Holonomic Systems
- Robust Sample-Based Output-Feedback Path Planning
- Combined Stochastic-Deterministic Predictive Control Using Local-Minima Free Navigation
- Safe Navigation in Human Occupied Environments Using Sampling and Control Barrier Functions
- Constrained Iterative LQG for Real-Time Chance-Constrained Gaussian Belief Space Planning
- Robotic Jigsaws: Path Planning for Non-Holonomic Cutting Robots
- A Meta-Learning-Based Trajectory Tracking Framework for UAVs under Degraded Conditions
- Orientation-Aware Planning for Parallel Task Execution of Omni-Directional Mobile Robot
- Informed Sampling Exploration Path Planner for 3D Reconstruction of Large Scenes
- Class-Ordered LPA: An Incremental-Search Algorithm for Weighted Colored Graphs
- Rough Terrain Navigation for Legged Robots Using Reachability Planning and Template Learning
- Using Experience to Improve Constrained Planning on Foliations for Multi-Modal Problems
- A Sampling-Based Motion Planning Framework for Complex Motor Actions
- Capacitated Vehicle Routing with Target Geometric Constraints
- Sparsification for Fast Optimal Multi-Robot Path Planning in Lazy Compilation Schemes
- A Novel Recursive Smooth Trajectory Generation Method for Unmanned Vehicles (I)
- Search-Based Planning with Learned Behaviors for Navigation among Pedestrians
- A Fast Algorithm for Stochastic Orienteering with Chance Constraints
- Kohonen Self-Organizing Map Based Route Planning: A Revisit
- FloMo: Tractable Motion Prediction with Normalizing Flows
- Cognitive Navigation for Indoor Environment Using Floorplan
- Improving Kinodynamic Planners for Vehicular Navigation with Learned Goal-Reaching Controllers
- Polygon-Based Random Tree Search Algorithm with Variable Polygon Size
- A Holistic Motion Planning and Control Solution to Challenge a Professional Racecar Driver
- Risk Conditioned Neural Motion Planning
- Real-Time Volumetric-Semantic Exploration and Mapping: An Uncertainty-Aware Approach
- Multitask and Transfer Learning of Geometric Robot Motion
Multi-Robot SLAM
- MR-iSAM2: Incremental Smoothing and Mapping with Multi-Root Bayes Tree for Multi-Robot SLAM
- A Collaborative Visual SLAM Framework for Service Robots
- Distributed Certifiably Correct Pose-Graph Optimization (I)
- ORBBuf: A Robust Buffering Method for Remote Visual SLAM
- Distributed Visual-Inertial Cooperative Localization
- Coxgraph: Multi-Robot Collaborative, Globally Consistent, Online Dense Reconstruction System
- Super Odometry: IMU-Centric LiDAR-Visual-Inertial Estimator for Challenging Environments
Multi-Robot Systems
- Distributed Event and Self-Triggered Coverage Control with Speed Constrained Unicycle Robots
- Combined Routing and Scheduling of Heterogeneous Transport and Service Agents
- Encirclement Guaranteed Cooperative Pursuit with Robust Model Predictive Control
- On Provably Safe and Live Multi-Robot Coordination with Online Goal Posting (I)
- Path Optimization for Cooperative Mapping Using Multiple Robots with Limited Sensing Capabilities
- An Interleaved Approach to Trait-Based Task Allocation and Scheduling
- Multi-Robot Task Assignment for Aerial Tracking with Viewpoint Constraints
- Downing a Rogue Drone with a Team of Aerial Radio Signal Jammers
- Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Visibility-Based Persistent Monitoring
- Cooperative Multi-Robot Object Transportation System Based on Hierarchical Quadratic Programming
- Autonomous Aerial Filming with Distributed Lighting by a Team of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
- Planning for Aerial Robot Teams for Wide-Area Biometric and Phenotypic Data Collection
- Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures: Towards Risk-Adaptive Task Allocation
- Source Seeking by Dynamic Source Location Estimation
- Market-Based Multi-Robot Coordination with HTN Planning
- Flocking and Collision Avoidance for a Dynamic Squad of Fixed-Wing UAVs Using Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Learning to Play Soccer from Scratch: Sample-Efficient Emergent Coordination through Curriculum-Learning and Competition
- Dual Quaternion Cluster-Space Formation Control
- Impact of Heterogeneity and Risk Aversion on Task Allocation in Multi-Agent Teams
- Hiding Leader’s Identity in Leader-Follower Navigation through Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
- Moving Forward in Formation: A Decentralized Hierarchical Learning Approach to Multi-Agent Moving Together
- Scalable Reinforcement Learning Policies for Multi-Agent Control
- Refuel Scheduling for Multirobot Charging-On-Demand
- Event-Triggered Control for Weight-Unbalanced Directed Robot Networks
- Impedance-Based Collision Reaction Strategy Via Internal Stress Loading in Cooperative Manipulation
- Detection and Inference of Randomness-Based Behavior for Resilient Multi-Vehicle Coordinated Operations
- Meta Preference Learning for Fast User Adaptation in Human-Supervisory Multi-Robot Deployments
- Relative Localization of Mobile Robots with Multiple Ultra-WideBand Ranging Measurements
- Optimization-Based Robot Team Exploration Considering Attrition and Communication Constraints
- Distributed Sampling-Based Planning for Non-Myopic Active Information Gathering
Object Detection, Segmentation and Categorization
- Camera Parameters Aware Motion Segmentation Network with Compensated Optical Flow
- APEX: Unsupervised, Object-Centric Scene Segmentation and Tracking for Robot Manipulation
- PLUMENet: Efficient 3D Object Detection from Stereo Images
- Part-Aware Data Augmentation for 3D Object Detection in Point Cloud
- MS-UDA: Multi-Spectral Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Thermal Image Semantic Segmentation
- MapFusion: A General Framework for 3D Object Detection with HDMaps
- SpikeMS: Deep Spiking Neural Network for Motion Segmentation
- Active Perception for Ambiguous Objects Classification
- Event-Based Motion Segmentation by Cascaded Two-Level Multi-Model Fitting
- FIDNet: LiDAR Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation with Fully Interpolation Decoding
- Look before You Act: Boosting Pseudo-LiDAR with Online Semantic Embedding
- FEANet: Feature-Enhanced Attention Network for RGB-Thermal Real-Time Semantic Segmentation
- ODIP: Towards Automatic Adaptation for Object Detection by Interactive Perception
- Vessel Classification Using a Regression Neural Network Approach
Optimization and Optimal Control
- Offset-Free Model Predictive Control: A Ball Catching Application with a Spherical Soft Robotic Arm
- Embedded Hardware Appropriate Fast 3D Trajectory Optimization for Fixed Wing Aerial Vehicles by Leveraging Hidden Convex Structures
- Probabilistic Iterative LQR for Short Time Horizon MPC
- Efficient and Reactive Planning for High Speed Robot Air Hockey
- Closed-Loop Robotic Cooking of Scrambled Eggs with a Salinity-Based ‘Taste’ Sensor
- Car Racing Line Optimization with Genetic Algorithm Using Approximate Homeomorphism
- Human Motion Imitation Using Optimal Control with Time-Varying Weights
- Learning Environment Constraints in Collaborative Robotics: A Decentralized Leader-Follower Approach
- Decentralized Trajectory Optimization for Multi-Agent Ergodic Exploration
- Accelerating Second-Order Differential Dynamic Programming for Rigid-Body Systems
- Rapid Convex Optimization of Centroidal Dynamics Using Block Coordinate Descent
- Real-Time Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability Analysis of Autonomous System with an FPGA
- Pairwise Preferences-Based Optimization of a Path-Based Velocity Planner in Robotic Sealing Tasks
- Memory Clustering Using Persistent Homology for Multimodality and Discontinuity-Sensitive Learning of Optimal Control Warm-Starts (I)
Parallel Robots
- Static Workspace Optimization of Aerial Cable Towed Robots with Land-Fixed Winches (I)
- A Reaction-Based Stabilizer for Nonmodel-Based Vibration Control of Cable-Driven Parallel Robots (I)
- Wrench Feasibility and Workspace Expansion of Planar Cable-Driven Parallel Robots by a Novel Passive Counterbalancing Mechanism (I)
- Development of a New 2-DOF Wrist Mechanism Using Reverse Motion Transmission
- A Novel 2-SUR 6-DOF Parallel Manipulator Actuated by Spherical Motion Generators
- A Novel Model-Based Robust Super-Twisting Sliding Mode Control of PKMs: Design and Real-Time Experiments
- Moving-Platform Pose Estimation for Cable-Driven Parallel Robots
Path Planning for Multiple Mobile Robots or Agents
- Iterative Refinement for Real-Time Multi-Robot Path Planning
- Subdimensional Expansion for Multi-Objective Multi-Agent Path Finding
- Parallel Hierarchical Composition Conflict-Based Search for Optimal Multi-Agent Pathfinding
- Loosely Synchronized Search for Multi-Agent Path Finding with Asynchronous Actions
- On Connected Deployment of Delay-Critical FANETs
- Team Orienteering Coverage Planning with Uncertain Reward
- Rapid Recovery from Robot Failures in Multi-Robot Visibility-Based Pursuit-Evasion
- PlanSys2: A Planning System Framework for ROS2
Perception for Grasping and Manipulation
- Sim-To-Real Transfer for Robotic Manipulation with Tactile Sensory
- Visual-Tactile Fusion for 3D Objects Reconstruction from a Single Depth View and a Single Gripper Touch for Robotics Tasks
- Policy Learning for Visually Conditioned Tactile Manipulation
- Hybrid ICP
- Improving Grasp Stability with Rotation Measurement from Tactile Sensing
- Multi-View Fusion for Multi-Level Robotic Scene Understanding
- Fast Reactive Grasping with In-Finger Vision and In-Hand FPGA-Accelerated CNNs
Perception-Action Coupling
- Explaining the Decisions of Deep Policy Networks for Robotic Manipulations
- An Adversarial Objective for Scalable Exploration
- Leading or Following? Dyadic Robot Imitative Interaction Using the Active Inference Framework
- Robotic Occlusion Reasoning for Efficient Object Existence Prediction
- Multimodal VAE Active Inference Controller
- Large-Area Conformable Sensor for Proximity, Light Touch, and Pressure-Based Gesture Recognition
- Tactile Slip Detection in the Wild Leveraging Distributed Sensing of Both Normal and Shear Forces
- NudgeSeg: Zero-Shot Object Segmentation by Repeated Physical Interaction
Physical Human-Robot Interaction
- Contact Anticipation for Physical Human-Robot Interaction with Robotic Manipulators Using Onboard Proximity Sensors
- Biomechanics Aware Collaborative Robot System for Delivery of Safe Physical Therapy in Shoulder Rehabilitation
- A Computational Multicriteria Optimization Approach to Controller Design for Physical Human-Robot Interaction (I)
- Task Geometry Aware Assistance for Kinesthetic Teaching of Redundant Robots
- A Framework for Dyadic Physical Interaction Studies During Ankle Motor Tasks
- A Conceptual Approach of Passive Human-Intention-Orientated Variable Admittance Control Using Power Envelope
- Inferring Goals with Gaze During Teleoperated Manipulation
Planning, Scheduling and Coordination
- Multi-Robot Task Planning under Individual and Collaborative Temporal Logic Specifications
- Reduced State Value Iteration for Multi-Drone Persistent Surveillance with Charging Constraints
- Multi-Robot Scheduling for Environmental Monitoring As a Team Orienteering Problem
- An Augmented MDP Approach for Solving Stochastic Security Games
- A Resolution Adaptive Algorithm for the Stochastic Orienteering Problem with Chance Constraints
- Force-Based Formation Control of Omnidirectional Ground Vehicles
- Hybrid Path Planning for UAV Traffic Management
- Optimizing Requests for Support in Context-Restricted Autonomy
Prosthetics and Exoskeletons
- A Soft Robotic Hip Exosuit (SR-HExo) to Assist Hip Flexion and Extension During Human Locomotion
- Using Footsteps to Estimate Changes in the Desired Gait Speed of an Exoskeleton User
- Virtual Energy Regulator: A Time-Independent Solution for Control of Lower Limb Exoskeletons
- Online Learning of the Dynamical Internal Model of Transfemoral Prosthesis for Enhancing Compliance
- Muscle Synergies Enable Accurate Joint Moment Prediction Using Few Electromyography Sensors
- F-VESPA: A Kinematic-Based Algorithm for Real-Time Heel-Strike Detection During Walking
- Temporal Dilation of Deep LSTM for Agile Decoding of sEMG: Application in Prediction of Upperlimb Motor Intention in NeuroRobotics
- An Anthropomorphic Prosthetic Hand with an Active, Selectively Lockable Differential Mechanism: Towards Affordable Dexterity
- A Powered Prosthetic Ankle Designed for Task Variability - a Concept Validation
- Self-Contained 2-DOF Ankle-Foot Prosthesis with Low-Inertia Extremity for Agile Walking on Uneven Terrain
- Hybrid Volitional Control As a Framework for Lower-Limb Prosthetic Control: A Simulation Study
- Sensorimotor-Inspired Tactile Feedback and Control Improve Consistency of Prosthesis Manipulation in the Absence of Direct Vision
- Phase-Variable Control of a Powered Knee-Ankle Prosthesis Over Continuously Varying Speeds and Inclines
- User Controlled Interface for Tuning Robotic Knee Prosthesis
- Design and Implementation of a Stumble Recovery Controller for a Knee Exoskeleton
RGB-D Perception
- Spatial Imagination with Semantic Cognition for Mobile Robots
- Decoder Modulation for Indoor Depth Completion
- Adversarial Attacks on Camera-LiDAR Models for 3D Car Detection
- Robust and Accurate RGB-D Reconstruction with Line Feature Constraints
- Object-Augmented RGB-D SLAM for Wide-Disparity Relocalisation
- Plane Segmentation Using Depth-Dependent Flood Fill
- Robust Pose Estimation Based on Normalized Information Distance
- RoboSLAM: Dense RGB-D SLAM for Humanoid Robots
Range Sensing
- Joint Depth and Normal Estimation from Real-World Time-Of-Flight Raw Data
- On the Descriptive Power of LiDAR Intensity Images for Segment-Based Loop Closing in 3-D SLAM
- Learning State-Dependent Sensor Measurement Models with Limited Sensor Measurements
- Self-Calibrated Dense 3D Sensor Using Multiple Cross Line Lasers Based on Light Sectioning Method and Visual Odometry
- Patchwork: Concentric Zone-Based Region-Wise Ground Segmentation with Ground Likelihood Estimation Using a 3D LiDAR Sensor
- MILIOM: Tightly Coupled Multi-Input Lidar-Inertia Odometry and Mapping
- Obstacle Avoidance Onboard MAVs Using a FMCW Radar
Reactive and Sensor-Based Planning
- Autonomous Runtime Composition of Sensor-Based Skills Using Concurrent Task Planning
- Multi-Resolution POMDP Planning for Multi-Object Search in 3D
- Deformation Recovery Control and Post-Impact Trajectory Replanning for Collision-Resilient Mobile Robots
- Towards Autonomous Parking Using Vision-Only Sensors
- Mechanical Search on Shelves Using Lateral Access X-RAY
- XAI-N: Sensor-Based Robot Navigation Using Expert Policies and Decision Trees
- Reactive Control for Bipedal Running Over Random Discrete Terrain under Uncertainty
Recognition
- Object-To-Scene: Learning to Transfer Object Knowledge to Indoor Scene Recognition
- MV-FractalDB: Formula-Driven Supervised Learning for Multi-View Image Recognition
- CORAL: Colored Structural Representation for Bi-Modal Place Recognition
- SSC: Semantic Scan Context for Large-Scale Place Recognition
- Fully-Online Always-Adaptation of Transfer Functions and Its Application to Sound Source Localization and Separation
- Enabling Robots to Distinguish between Aggressive and Joking Attitudes
- Alternating Drive-And-Glide Flight Navigation of a Kinteplane for Sound Source Position Estimation
Reinforcement Learning
- A Sim-To-Real Pipeline for Deep Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Robot Navigation in Cluttered Rough Terrain
- Inclined Quadrotor Landing Using Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Self-Supervised Online Reward Shaping in Sparse-Reward Environments
- CLAMGen: Closed-Loop Arm Motion Generation Via Multi-View Vision-Based RL
- Residual Feedback Learning for Contact-Rich Manipulation Tasks with Uncertainty
- DEALIO: Data-Efficient Adversarial Learning for Imitation from Observation
- Learning to Design and Construct Bridge without Blueprint
- Sample-Efficient Reinforcement Learning Representation Learning with Curiosity Contrastive Forward Dynamics Model
- An Efficient Image-To-Image Translation HourGlass-Based Architecture for Object Pushing Policy Learning
- A Joint Imitation-Reinforcement Learning Framework for Reduced Baseline Regret
- Passing through Narrow Gaps with Deep Reinforcement Learning
- HARL-A: Hardware Agnostic Reinforcement Learning through Adversarial Selection
- Motion Planning for Autonomous Vehicles in the Presence of Uncertainty Using Reinforcement Learning
- Safe Continuous Control with Constrained Model-Based Policy Optimization
- Terrain-Aware Risk-Assessment-Network-Aided Deep Reinforcement Learning for Quadrupedal Locomotion in Tough Terrain
- Hierarchical Terrain-Aware Control for Quadrupedal Locomotion by Combining Deep Reinforcement Learning and Optimal Control
- Model-Based Constrained Reinforcement Learning Using Generalized Control Barrier Function
- Learning Human Rewards by Inferring Their Latent Intelligence Levels in Multi-Agent Games: A Theory-Of-Mind Approach with Application to Driving Data
- Meta-Learning for Fast Adaptive Locomotion with Uncertainties in Environments and Robot Dynamics
- Monolithic vs. Hybrid Controller for Multi-Objective Sim-To-Real Learning
- Centralizing State-Values in Dueling Networks for Multi-Robot Reinforcement Learning Mapless Navigation
- Benchmarking Safe Deep Reinforcement Learning in Aquatic Navigation
- Multi-Agent Collaborative Learning with Relational Graph Reasoning in Adversarial Environments
- Semantic Tracklets: An Object-Centric Representation for Visual Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
- Bayesian Residual Policy Optimization: Scalable Bayesian Reinforcement Learning with Clairvoyant Experts
- Memory-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning for POMDPs
- PNS: Population-Guided Novelty Search for Reinforcement Learning in Hard Exploration Environments
- MAMBPO: Sample-Efficient Multi-Robot Reinforcement Learning Using Learned World Models
- Q-Learning with Long-Term Action-Space Shaping to Model Complex Behavior for Autonomous Lane Changes
Representation Learning
- COCOI: Contact-Aware Online Context Inference for Generalizable Non-Planar Pushing
- DeepKoCo: Efficient Latent Planning with a Task-Relevant Koopman Representation
- Low Dimensional State Representation Learning with Robotics Priors in Continuous Action Spaces
- Acceleration of Actor-Critic Deep Reinforcement Learning for Visual Grasping by State Representation Learning Based on a Preprocessed Input Image
- SSTN: Self-Supervised Domain Adaptation Thermal Object Detection for Autonomous Driving
- Self-Supervised Disentangled Representation Learning for Third-Person Imitation Learning
- Learning to Drop Points for LiDAR Scan Synthesis
Robot Safety
- On Compliance and Safety with Torque-Control for Robots with High Reduction Gears and No Joint-Torque Feedback
- A Kelvin Wake Avoidance Scheme for Autonomous Sailing Robots Based on Orientation-Restricted Dubins Path
- A Predictive Safety Filter for Learning-Based Racing Control
- Measurement-Robust Control Barrier Functions: Certainty in Safety with Uncertainty in State
- Group Multi-Object Tracking for Dynamic Risk Map and Safe Path Planning
- Reactive and Safe Road User Simulations Using Neural Barrier Certificates
- Rm-Code: Proprioceptive Real-Time Recursive Multi-Contact Detection, Isolation and Identification
- R-SNN: An Analysis and Design Methodology for Robustifying Spiking Neural Networks against Adversarial Attacks through Noise Filters for Dynamic Vision Sensors
Robotic Systems and Benchmarking
- Identifying Performance Regression Conditions for Testing & Evaluation of Autonomous Systems
- JCopter: Reliable UAV Software through Managed Languages
- Towards a Reference Framework for Tactile Robot Performance and Safety Benchmarking
- On Assessing the Usefulness of Proxy Domains for Developing and Evaluating Embodied Agents
- Towards Efficient Learning-Based Model Predictive Control Via Feedback Linearization and Gaussian Process Regression
- HOPPY: An Open-Source Kit for Education with Dynamic Legged Robots
- A Methodology for Approaching the Integration of Complex Robotics Systems Illustrated through a Bi-Manual Manipulation Case-Study (I)
- Robust SLAM Systems: Are We There Yet?
- Evaluating the Impact of Semantic Segmentation and Pose Estimation on Dense Semantic SLAM
- Overlap Displacement Error: Are Your SLAM Poses Map-Consistent?
- Error Diagnosis of Deep Monocular Depth Estimation Models
- New Metrics for Industrial Depth Sensors Evaluation for Precise Robotic Applications
- I3SA: The Increased Step Size Stability Assessment Benchmark and Its Application to the Humanoid Robot REEM-C
- Interpretable Trade-Offs between Robot Task Accuracy and Compute Efficiency
Robotics and Automation in Agriculture and Forestry
- Few-Leaf Learning: Weed Segmentation in Grasslands
- Toward Robotic Weed Control: Detection of Nutsedge Weed in Bermudagrass Turf Using Inaccurate and Insufficient Training Data
- A Low-Cost Robot with Autonomous Recharge and Navigation for Weed Control in Fields with Narrow Row Spacing
- Viewpoint Planning for Fruit Size and Position Estimation
- Robotic Lime Picking by Considering Leaves As Permeable Obstacles
- Towards Intelligent Fruit Picking with In-Hand Sensing
- A Robust Illumination-Invariant Camera System for Agricultural Applications
- Depth Ranging Performance Evaluation and Improvement for RGB-D Cameras on Field-Based High-Throughput Phenotyping Robots
Robotics and Automation in Agriculture, Forestry and Construction
- Reinforcement Learning Control of a Forestry Crane Manipulator
- Hybrid Data-Driven Modelling for Inverse Control of Hydraulic Excavators
- Real-Time Motion Planning of a Hydraulic Excavator Using Trajectory Optimization and Model Predictive Control
- Task-Consistent Path Planning for Mobile 3D Printing
- A Learning Approach to Robot-Agnostic Force-Guided High Precision Assembly
- Image-Based Joint State Estimation Pipeline for Sensorless Manipulators
- Navigate-And-Seek: A Robotics Framework for People Localization in Agricultural Environments
SLAM
- A General Framework for Lifelong Localization and Mapping in Changing Environment
- Geometry-Based Graph Pruning for Lifelong SLAM
- Consistent SLAM Using Local Optimization with Virtual Prior Topologies
- Line Flow Based Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (I)
- Probabilistic Appearance-Invariant Topometric Localization with New Place Awareness
- Efficient Multimodal Belief Propagation for Robust SLAM Using Clustering Based Reparameterization
- Robust Initialization of Multi-Camera SLAM with Limited View Overlaps and Inaccurate Extrinsic Calibration
- Visual Place Recognition Using LiDAR Intensity Information
- F-LOAM: Fast LiDAR Odometry and Mapping
- LiDAR-Based Object-Level SLAM for Autonomous Vehicles
- LiDAR SLAM with Plane Adjustment for Indoor Environment
- Low-Drift Odometry, Mapping and Ground Segmentation Using a Backpack LiDAR System
- RF-LIO: Removal-First Tightly-Coupled Lidar Inertial Odometry in High Dynamic Environments
- What’s in My LiDAR Odometry Toolbox?
- Accurate Visual-Inertial SLAM by Manhattan Frame Re-Identification
- SymbioLCD: Ensemble-Based Loop Closure Detection Using CNN-Extracted Objects and Visual Bag-Of-Words
- Consensus-Informed Optimization Over Mixtures for Ambiguity-Aware Object SLAM
- GR-Fusion: Multi-Sensor Fusion SLAM for Ground Robots with High Robustness and Low Drift
- Multi-Layer VI-GNSS Global Positioning Framework with Numerical Solution Aided MAP Initialization
- Angular Super-Resolution Radar SLAM
- CFEAR Radarodometry - Conservative Filtering for Efficient and Accurate Radar Odometry
- Stereo Plane SLAM Based on Intersecting Lines
- Hierarchical Segment-Based Optimization for SLAM
- CodeMapping: Real-Time Dense Mapping for Sparse SLAM Using Compact Scene Representations
- Topology Aware Object-Level Semantic Mapping towards More Robust Loop Closure
- Random Fourier Features Based SLAM
- Robust Rank Deficient SLAM
- Keypoint Matching for Point Cloud Registration Using Multiplex Dynamic Graph Attention Networks
- Robust Multi-Camera SLAM with Manhattan Constraint Toward Automated Valet Parking
- DSVP: Dual-Stage Viewpoint Planner for Rapid Exploration by Dynamic Expansion
- PoseFusion2: Simultaneous Background Reconstruction and Human Shape Recovery in Real-Time
- A Multi-Hypothesis Approach to Pose Ambiguity in Object-Based SLAM
- Underwater Visual Acoustic SLAM with Extrinsic Calibration
- Some Research Questions for SLAM in Deformable Environments
- An Analytical Solution to the IMU Initialization Problem for Visual-Inertial Systems
Semantic Scene Understanding
- Up-To-Down Network: Fusing Multi-Scale Context for 3D Semantic Scene Completion
- Memory-Based Semantic Segmentation for Off-Road Unstructured Natural Environments
- A Deep Learning-Based Indoor Scene Classification Approach Enhanced with Inter-Object Distance Semantic Features
- BORM: Bayesian Object Relation Model for Indoor Scene Recognition
- CORSAIR: Convolutional Object Retrieval and Symmetry-AIded Registration
- Real-Time Monocular Human Depth Estimation and Segmentation on Embedded Systems
- Multi-Scale Feature Aggregation by Cross-Scale Pixel-To-Region Relation Operation for Semantic Segmentation
- TUPPer-Map: Temporal and Unified Panoptic Perception for 3D Metric-Semantic Mapping
- Local Memory Attention for Fast Video Semantic Segmentation
- LiDAR-Based Drivable Region Detection for Autonomous Driving
- CP-Loss: Connectivity-Preserving Loss for Road Curb Detection in Autonomous Driving with Aerial Images
- Semantic Image Alignment for Vehicle Localization
- ISSAFE: Improving Semantic Segmentation in Accidents by Fusing Event-Based Data
- SNE-RoadSeg+: Rethinking Depth-Normal Translation and Deep Supervision for Freespace Detection
Sensor Fusion
- Lvio-Fusion: A Self-Adaptive Multi-Sensor Fusion SLAM Framework Using Actor-Critic Method
- Reactive Visual Odometry Scheduling Based on Noise Analysis Using an Adaptive Extended Kalman Filter
- Multi-Sensor Fusion Incorporating Adaptive Transformation for Reconfigurable Pavement Sweeping Robot
- Modular Multi-Sensor Fusion: A Collaborative State Estimation Perspective
- GEM: Glare or Gloom, I Can Still See You — End-To-End Multi-Modal Object Detection
- Continuous-Time Radar-Inertial Odometry for Automotive Radars
- Radar Visual Inertial Odometry and Radar Thermal Inertial Odometry: Robust Navigation Even in Challenging Visual Conditions
- Accurate Depth Estimation from a Hybrid Event-RGB Stereo Setup
- FINO-Net: A Deep Multimodal Sensor Fusion Framework for Manipulation Failure Detection
- 3D-FFS: Faster 3D Object Detection with Focused Frustum Search in Sensor Fusion Based Networks
- Reinforcement Learning Compensated Extended Kalman Filter for Attitude Estimation
- Radar Ghost Target Detection Via Multimodal Transformers
- AcousticFusion: Fusing Sound Source Localization to Visual SLAM in Dynamic Environments
- Data-Fusion for Robust Off-Road Perception Considering Data Quality of Uncertain Sensors
Service, Art and Entertainment Robotics
- Imagination-Enabled Robot Perception
- AutoPhoto: Aesthetic Photo Capture Using Reinforcement Learning
- Motion Strategy Using Opponent Player’s Serial Learning for Air-Hockey Robots
- Learning Robotic Contact Juggling
- Towards a User Adaptive Assistive Robot: Learning from Demonstration Using Navigation Functions
- Cross-Modal Analysis of Human Detection for Robotics: An Industrial Case Study
- Consolidating Kinematic Models to Promote Coordinated Mobile Manipulations
Shared Autonomy for Physical Human-Robot Interaction
- Shared Control Based on a Brain-Computer Interface for Human-Multirobot Cooperation
- Reconfigurable Constraint-Based Reactive Framework for Assistive Robotics with Adaptable Levels of Autonomy
- Toward Vision-Based High Sampling Interaction Force Estimation with Master Position and Orientation for Teleoperation
- Informing Real-Time Corrections in Corrective Shared Autonomy through Expert Demonstrations
- Autonomy in Physical Human-Robot Interaction: A Brief Survey
- A Shared Control Method for Collaborative Human-Robot Plug Task
- Robotics for Occupational Therapy: Learning Upper-Limb Exercises from Demonstrations
- Intelligent Locomotion Planning with Enhanced Postural Stability for Lower-Limb Exoskeletons
- Human-In-The-Loop Stability Analysis of Haptic Rendering with Time Delay by Tracking the Roots of the Characteristic Quasi-Polynomial — the Effect of Arm Impedance
- Deep Neural Skill Assessment and Transfer: Application to Robotic Surgery Training
- Towards Safe Human-Quadrotor Interaction: Mixed-Initiative Control Via Real-Time NMPC
Simulation
- Learning to Fly—a Gym Environment with PyBullet Physics for Reinforcement Learning of Multi-Agent Quadcopter Control
- IGibson 1.0: A Simulation Environment for Interactive Tasks in Large Realistic Scenes
- An Approach to Deploy Interactive Robotic Simulators on the Web for HRI Experiments: Results in Social Robot Navigation
- Co-Design of Embodied Intelligence: A Structured Approach
- Muscle-Reflex Model of Human Locomotion Entrains to Mechanical Perturbations
- Daß: Distributable and Scalable Simulation of Robotic Applications
- Mobile 3D Printing Robot Simulation with Viscoelastic Fluids
Social Human-Robot Interaction
- Advocating Attitudinal Change through Android Robot’s Intention-Based Expressive Behaviors: Towards WHO COVID-19 Guidelines Adherence
- Text-Based Robot Emotion and Human-Like Emotional Transition
- Personalization of Human-Robot Gestural Communication through Voice Interaction Grounding
- “Pretending to Be Okay in a Sad Voice”: Social Robot’s Usage of Verbal and Nonverbal Cue Combination and Its Effect on Human Empathy and Behavior Inducement
- Pain Expression-Based Visual Feedback Method for Care Training Assistant Robot with Musculoskeletal Symptoms
- A Unified Bi-Directional Model for Natural and Artificial Trust in Human-Robot Collaboration
- Expectations vs. Reality: Unreliability and Transparency in a Treasure Hunt Game with ICub
- Collaborative Storytelling with Social Robots
- An Integrated Approach to Context-Sensitive Moral Cognition in Robot Cognitive Architectures
- Translating Natural Language Instructions to Computer Programs for Robot Manipulation
- Design of Taking a Walk with a Robot That Receives Care from a Person and Indirectly Mediates Communication with Strangers
- Human-Robot Greeting: Tracking Human Greeting Mental States and Acting Accordingly
- A Robot That Encourages Self-Disclosure to Reduce Anger Mood
- Persuasion Strategies for Social Robot to Keep Humans Accepting Daily Different Recommendations
- ROS for Human-Robot Interaction
- Mobile Robot Yielding Cues for Human-Robot Spatial Interaction
- Semantic-Based Explainable AI: Leveraging Semantic Scene Graphs and Pairwise Ranking to Explain Robot Failures
- The Effects of Conversational Contexts and Forms of Non-Lexical Backchannel on User’s Perception of the Robot
- Using an Android Robot to Improve Social Connectedness by Sharing Recent Experiences of Group Members in Human-Robot Conversations
- Exploring Consequential Robot Sound: Should We Make Robots Quiet and Kawaii-Et?
- Drones in Wonderland — Disentangling Collocated Interaction Using Radical Form
Soft Robot Applications
- Laser Endoscopic Manipulator Using Spring-Reinforced Multi-DoF Soft Actuator
- Inverse Dynamics Model-Based Shape Control of Soft Continuum Finger Robot Using Parametric Curve
- Soft Robotic Oscillators with Strain-Based Coordination
- SoMo: Fast and Accurate Simulations of Continuum Robots in Complex Environments
- Toward State-Unsaturation Guaranteed Fault Detection Method in Visual Servoing of Soft Robot Manipulators
- Fuzzy-Depth Objects Grasping Based on FSG Algorithm and Soft Robotic Hand
- Deformable Elasto-Plastic Object Shaping Using an Elastic Hand and Model-Based Reinforcement Learning
Soft Robot Materials and Design
- Two-Sheet Type Rotary-Driven Thin Bending Mechanism Realizing High Stiffness
- Turning an Articulated 3-PPSR Manipulator into a Parallel Continuum Robot
- Origami-Inspired Robot That Swims Via Jet Propulsion
- Multifunctional Robotic Glove with Active-Passive Training Modes for Hand Rehabilitation and Assistance
- S-Climbot: A Soft Robot with Novel Grippers and Rigid-Compliantly Constrained Body for Climbing on Various Poles
- Soft Retraction Device and Internal Camera Mount for Everting Vine Robots
- Partial Formation of Hydroxyapatite on Poly (Vinyl Alcohol) Hydrogel for Intensive Motions of Biomimetic Soft Robots
- Development of a Permanent Magnet Elastomer (PME) Infused Soft Robot Skin for Tactile Sensing
- Wide-Bandwidth Soft Vibrotactile Interface Using Electrohydraulic Actuator for Haptic Steering Wheel Application
- Design and Feasibility Analysis of a Foldable Robot Arm for Drones Using a Twisted String Actuator: FRAD-TSA
- Analytical Design of a Pneumatic Elastomer Robot with Deterministically Adjusted Stiffness
- Design and Validation of a New Family of Bio-Inspired 3D-Printable Structurally-Programmable Soft Robots
- Shape Recognition of a Tensegrity with Soft Sensor Threads and Artificial Muscles Using a Recurrent Neural Network
- Origami Logic Gates for Printable Robots
- SPHR: A Soft Pneumatic Hybrid Robot with Extreme Shape Changing and Lifting Abilities
Soft Sensors and Actuators
- EPM–MRE: Electropermanent Magnet–Magnetorheological Elastomer for Soft Actuation System and Its Application to Robotic Grasping
- Double Helical Soft Pneumatic Actuator Capable of Generating Complex 3D Torsional Motions
- Bistable Valves for Magnetorheological Fluid-Based Soft Robotic Actuation Systems
- Wireless Powered Dielectric Elastomer Actuator
- Reducing the Influence of the Contact Area on a Soft Capacitive Force Sensor
- Dynamic Hand Gesture Recognition Using a Stretchable Multi-Layer Capacitive Array, Proximity Sensing, and a SVM Classifier
- Estimating the Shape of Soft Pneumatic Actuators Using Active Vibroacoustic Sensing
Software and Hardware
- Smart Pointers and Shared Memory Synchronisation for Efficient Inter-Process Communication in ROS on an Autonomous Vehicle
- Human-Aware Navigation Planner for Diverse Human-Robot Interaction Contexts
- CompROS: A Composable ROS2 Based Architecture for Real-Time Embedded Robotic Development
- Arena-Rosnav: Towards Deployment of Deep-Reinforcement-Learning-BasedObstacle Avoidance into Conventional Autonomous NavigationSystems
- Efficient Computation of Map-Scale Continuous Mutual Information on Chip in Real Time
- Data-Driven Energy Estimation of Individual Instructions in User-Defined Robot Programs for Collaborative Robots
- DQ Robotics: A Library for Robot Modeling and Control (I)
- Grasping Robot Integration and Prototyping: The GRIP Software Framework (I)
Space Robotics and Automation
- Towards Robust Monocular Visual Odometry for Flying Robots on Planetary Missions
- Stereo Perception in the Dark Using Uncalibrated Line Laser
- Enhancing Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Images Via Multi-Frame Super Resolution for Future Robotic Space Missions
- Multi-Modal Loop Closing in Unstructured Planetary Environments with Visually Enriched Submaps
- Online Information-Aware Motion Planning with Inertial Parameter Learning for Robotic Free-Flyers
- Surface Sliding Behavior Analysis of Space Probes in Simulated Extraterrestrial Environments
- A Compliant Partitioned Shared Control Strategy for an Orbital Robot
- Compliant Floating-Base Control of Space Robots
Surgical Robotics
- Autonomous Bi-Manual Surgical Suturing Based on Skills Learned from Demonstration
- Safe Reinforcement Learning Using Formal Verification for Tissue Retraction in Autonomous Robotic-Assisted Surgery
- Fall Detection for Robotic Endoscope Holders in Minimally Invasive Surgery
- Pre-Operative Offline Optimization of Insertion Point Location for Safe and Accurate Surgical Task Execution
- Globally Optimal Fetoscopic Mosaicking Based on Pose Graph Optimisation with Affine Constraints
- Fusion of Biplane Fluoroscopy with Fiber Bragg Grating for 3D Catheter Shape Reconstruction
- Position-Based Dynamics Simulator of Brain Deformations for Path Planning and Intra-Operative Control in Keyhole Neurosurgery
Swarm Robotics
- A Decentralized Cluster Formation Containment Framework for Multirobot Systems (I)
- Sniffy Bug: A Fully Autonomous Swarm of Gas-Seeking Nano Quadcopters in Cluttered Environments
- Personalized Human-Swarm Interaction through Hand Motion
- Towards a Passive Self-Assembling Macroscale Multi-Robot System
- Decentralized Localization in Homogeneous Swarms Considering Real-World Non-Idealities
- Cooperative Object Transportation Using Gibbs Random Fields
- Extension of Flocking Models to Environments with Obstacles and Degraded Communications
- MicROS.BT: An Event-Driven Behavior Tree Framework for Swarm Robots
Task and Motion Planning
- Prioritized Indoor Exploration with a Dynamic Deadline
- Assembly Planning by Recognizing a Graphical Instruction Manual
- Optimal Planning Over Long and Infinite Horizons for Achieving Independent Partially-Observable Tasks That Evolve Over Time
- Probabilistic Inference in Planning for Partially Observable Long Horizon Problems
- Intelligent Execution through Plan Analysis
- A General Task and Motion Planning Framework for Multiple Manipulators
- Spatial Action Maps Augmented with Visit Frequency Maps for Exploration Tasks
- Learning Symbolic Operators for Task and Motion Planning
Telerobotics and Teleoperation
- Miniature Tangible Cube: Concept and Design of Target-Object-Oriented User Interface for Dual-Arm Telemanipulation
- Cursor-Based Robot Tele-Manipulation through 2D-To-SE2 Interfaces
- Mobile Teleoperation: Feasibility of Wireless Wearable Sensing of the Operator’s Arm Motion
- Drawing Elon Musk: A Robot Avatar for Remote Manipulation
- Analysis of User Preferences for Robot Motions in Immersive Telepresence
- A Reconfigurable Interface for Ergonomic and Dynamic Tele-Locomanipulation
- Safety-Oriented Teleoperation Framework for Contact-Rich Tasks in Hazardous Workspaces
- QoE-Driven Delay-Adaptive Control Scheme Switching for Time-Delayed Bilateral Teleoperation with Haptic Data Reduction
- Passivity-Based Control for Haptic Teleoperation of a Legged Manipulator in Presence of Time-Delays
- SnakeRaven: Teleoperation of a 3D Printed Snake-Like Manipulator Integrated to the RAVEN II Surgical Robot
- Position Synchronization through the Energy-Reflection Based Time Domain Passivity Approach in Position-Position Architectures
- Learning to Guide Human Attention on Mobile Telepresence Robots with 360 Vision
- Learning to Arbitrate Human and Robot Control Using Disagreement between Sub-Policies
- NimbRo Avatar: Interactive Immersive Telepresence with Force-Feedback Telemanipulation
Transfer Learning
- Delay Aware Universal Notice Network : Real World Multi-Robot Transfer Learning
- Domain Curiosity: Learning Efficient Data Collection Strategies for Domain Adaptation
- Knowledge Transfer across Imaging Modalities Via Simultaneous Learning of Adaptive Autoencoders for High-Fidelity Mobile Robot Vision
- Bayesian Meta-Learning for Few-Shot Policy Adaptation across Robotic Platforms
- Shaping Progressive Net of Reinforcement Learning for Policy Transfer with Human Evaluative Feedback
- A Conformal Mapping-Based Framework for Robot-To-Robot and Sim-To-Real Transfer Learning
- On Explainability and Sensor-Adaptability of a Robot Tactile Texture Representation Using a Two-Stage Recurrent Networks
Underactuated & Redundant Robots
- Streamlined Tuning Procedure for Stable PID Control of Flexible-Base Manipulators
- RRT-Based Path Planning for Follow-The-Leader Motion of Hyper-Redundant Manipulators
- Anisotropic Disturbance Rejection for Kinematically Redundant Systems with Applications on an UVMS
- Tension Control Method Utilizing Antagonistic Tension to Enlarge the Workspace of Coupled Tendon-Driven Articulated Manipulator
- Momentum Based Whole-Body Optimal Planning for a Single-Spherical-Wheeled Balancing Mobile Manipulator
- Design Optimization of Musculoskeletal Humanoids with Maximization of Redundancy to Compensate for Muscle Rupture
- Supervised Autonomy for Remote Teleoperation of Hybrid Wheel-Legged Mobile Manipulator Robots
- Fuzzy PID Controller Based on Yaw Angle Prediction of a Spherical Robot
Vision-Based Navigation
- Motion Field Consensus with Locality Preservation: A Geometric Confirmation Strategy for Loop Closure Detection
- Re-Attention Is All You Need: Memory-Efficient Scene Text Detection Via Re-Attention on Uncertain Regions
- Trajectory-Constrained Deep Latent Visual Attention for Improved Local Planning in Presence of Heterogeneous Terrain
- Towards Generalization in Target-Driven Visual Navigation by Using Deep Reinforcement Learning (I)
- Learning Navigation Skills for Legged Robots with Learned Robot Embeddings
- NavTuner: Learning a Scene-Sensitive Family of Navigation Policies
- Fast and Robust Bio-Inspired Teach and Repeat Navigation
- POMP++: Pomcp-Based Active Visual Search in Unknown Indoor Environments
- DT-Loc: Monocular Visual Localization on HD Vector Map Using Distance Transforms of 2D Semantic Detections
- Probabilistic Visual Navigation with Bidirectional Image Prediction
- FAITH: Fast Iterative Half-Plane Focus of Expansion Estimation Using Optic Flow
- Mapless Humanoid Navigation Using Learned Latent Dynamics
- Success Weighted by Completion Time: A Dynamics-Aware Evaluation Criteria for Embodied Navigation
- A Bio-Inspired Multi-Sensor System for Robust Orientation and Position Estimation
- Monocular Teach-And-Repeat Navigation Using a Deep Steering Network with Scale Estimation
- Self-Supervised Scale Recovery for Monocular Depth and Egomotion Estimation
- Assembly Action Understanding from Fine-Grained Hand Motions, a Multi-Camera and Deep Learning Approach
- Robust and Long-Term Monocular Teach-And-Repeat Navigationusing a Single-Experience Map
- Self Attention Guided Depth Completion Using RGB and SparseLiDAR Point Clouds
- Laser-Based Side-By-Side Following for Human-Following Robots
- Deep Leg Tracking by Detection and Gait Analysis in 2D Range Data for Intelligent Robotic Assistants
Visual Learning
- ADD: A Fine-Grained Dynamic Inference Architecture for Semantic Image Segmentation
- COINet: Adaptive Segmentation with Co-Interactive Network for Autonomous Driving
- Category-Level 6D Object Pose Estimation Via Cascaded Relation and Recurrent Reconstruction Networks
- Scanline Resolution-Invariant Depth Completion Using a Single Image and Sparse LiDAR Point Cloud
- Unknown Object Segmentation from Stereo Images
- Object Learning for 6D Pose Estimation and Grasping from RGB-D Videos of In-Hand Manipulation
- Online Monitoring of Object Detection Performance During Deployment
- OPEn: An Open-Ended Physics Environment for Learning without a Task
- Fast and Unsupervised 3D-CNN Based Non-Local Feature Learning for Direct Volume Rendering of 3D Medical Images
- Self-Supervised Optical Flow with Spiking Neural Networks and Event Based Cameras
- DA4Event: Towards Bridging the Sim-To-Real Gap for Event Cameras Using Domain Adaptation
- Accurate Grid Keypoint Learning for Efficient Video Prediction
- Improving Monocular Depth Estimation by Semantic Pre-Training
- 3D Segmentation Learning from Sparse Annotations and Hierarchical Descriptors
- TemporalFusion: Temporal Motion Reasoning with Multi-Frame Fusion for 6D Object Pose Estimation
Visual Servoing
- Mind Control of a Service Robot with Visual Servoing
- Sampling-Based MPC for Constrained Vision Based Control
- A Real-Time State Dependent Region Estimator for Autonomous Endoscope Navigation (I)
- Image-Based Visual Servoing of Rotorcrafts to Planar Visual Targets of Arbitrary Orientation
- Robot-Assisted Breast Ultrasound Scanning Using Geometrical Analysis of the Seroma and Image Segmentation
- Multi-Scale Laplacian-Based FMM for Shape Control
- RTVS: A Lightweight Differentiable MPC Framework for Real-Time Visual Servoing
Visual Tracking
- Joint Multi-Object Detection and Tracking with Camera-LiDAR Fusion for Autonomous Driving
- Powerline Tracking with Event Cameras
- Improvement of Optical Flow Estimation by Using the Hampel Filter for Low-End Embedded Systems
- Real-Time Outdoor Illumination Estimation for Camera Tracking in Indoor Environments
- CRACT: Cascaded Regression-Align-Classification for Robust Tracking
- Dynamic Event Camera Calibration
- PointSiamRCNN: Target-Aware Voxel-Based Siamese Tracker for Point Clouds
- Improving Object Permanence Using Agent Actions and Reasoning
- Multi-Variable State Prediction: HMM Based Approach for Real-Time Trajectory Prediction
- Towards Robust Human Trajectory Prediction in Raw Videos
- BundleTrack: 6D Pose Tracking for Novel Objects without Instance or Category-Level 3D Models
- Model-Free Vehicle Tracking and State Estimation in Point Cloud Sequences
- Score Refinement for Confidence-Based 3D Multi-Object Tracking
- A High-Accuracy Fiducial Marker with Parallel Lenticular Angle Gauges
Visual-Inertial SLAM
- Stereo Visual Inertial Odometry for Robots with Limited Computational Resources
- Feature-Aided Bundle Adjustment Learning Framework for Self-Supervised Monocular Visual Odometry
- Accurate Visual-Inertial SLAM by Feature Re-Identification
- PLF-VINS: Real-Time Monocular Visual-Inertial SLAM with Point-Line Fusion and Parallel-Line Fusion
- Sampson Distance: A New Approach to Improving Visual-Inertial Odometry’s Accuracy
- A Comparison of Modern General-Purpose Visual SLAM Approaches
- RP-VIO: Robust Plane-Based Visual-Inertial Odometry for Dynamic Environments
- A Visual Inertial Odometry Framework for 3D Points, Lines and Planes
Wearable Robotics
- Wearable Tactile Sensor Suit for Natural Body Dynamics Extraction: Case Study on Posture Prediction Based on Physical Reservoir Computing
- Method for the Determination of Relative Joint Axes for Wearable Inertial Sensor Applications
- Evaluation of Lumbar Burdens for Endoskeleton-Type Assist Suit Based on Musculoskeletal Model and Its Improvement of the Utility
- Exo-Muscle: A Semi-Rigid Assistive Device for the Knee
- Estimating the Center of Mass of Human-Exoskeleton Systems with Physically Coupled Serial Chain
- A Soft Assistive Device for Elbow Effort-Compensation
- Gaussian Process Regression for COP Trajectory Estimation in Healthy and Pathological Gait Using Instrumented Insoles
- Learning Fingertip Force to Grasp Deformable Objects for Soft Wearable Robotic Glove with TSM
Wheeled Robots
- Development of an Agile Omnidirectional Mobile Robot with Gravity Compensated Wheel-Leg Mechanisms for Human Environment
- Continuous Robust Trajectory Tracking Control for Autonomous Ground Vehicles Considering Lateral and Longitudinal Kinematics and Dynamics Via Recursive Backstepping
- Sub-Optimal and Robust Path Tracking: A Geometric Approach
- Whole-Body MPC and Online Gait Sequence Generation for Wheeled-Legged Robots
- Design and Analysis of a Bi-Directional Transformable Wheel Robot Trimode
- Environmentally Adaptive Control Including Variance Minimization Using Stochastic Predictive Network with Parametric Bias: Application to Mobile Robots
- Traversability-Based Trajectory Planning with Quasi-Dynamic Vehicle Model in Loose Soil