IROS

Learning from Guided Play: Improving Exploration for Adversarial Imitation Learning with Simple Auxiliary Tasks

Trevor Ablett, Bryan Chan, Jonathan Kelly

Comments In IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) and presented at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'23), Detroit, MI, USA, Oct. 1-5, 2023. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2112.08932

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 1263-1270, Jan. 2023

The Impact of Time Step Frequency on the Realism of Robotic Manipulation Simulation for Objects of Different Scales

Minh Q. Ta, Holly Dinkel, Hameed Abdul-Rashid, Yangfei Dai, Jessica Myers, Tan Chen, Junyi Geng, Timothy Bretl

Comments 3 pages, 3 figures, Best Poster Finalist at the 2023 Robotics and AI in Future Factory Workshop at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). Video presentation [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOXrBpMmI0A]. Robotics and AI in Future Factory workshop [https://sites.google.com/view/robot-ai-future-factory/]

VaPr: Variable-Precision Tensors to Accelerate Robot Motion Planning

Yu-Shun Hsiao, Siva Kumar Sastry Hari, Balakumar Sundaralingam, Jason Yik, Thierry Tambe, Charbel Sakr, Stephen W. Keckler, Vijay Janapa Reddi

Comments 7 pages, 5 figures, 8 tables, to be published in 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

TransUPR: A Transformer-based Uncertain Point Refiner for LiDAR Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation

Zifan Yu, Meida Chen, Zhikang Zhang, Suya You, Raghuveer Rao, Sanjeev Agarwal, Fengbo Ren

Comments 6 pages; Accepted by 2023 IROS

Diversity for Contingency: Learning Diverse Behaviors for Efficient Adaptation and Transfer

Finn Rietz, Johannes Andreas Stork

Comments Presented at the third RL-Conform workshop at IROS 2023

Exploring Social Motion Latent Space and Human Awareness for Effective Robot Navigation in Crowded Environments

Junaid Ahmed Ansari, Satyajit Tourani, Gourav Kumar, Brojeshwar Bhowmick

Comments Accepted at IROS 2023

EARL: Eye-on-Hand Reinforcement Learner for Dynamic Grasping with Active Pose Estimation

Baichuan Huang, Jingjin Yu, Siddarth Jain

Comments Presented on IROS 2023 Corresponding author Siddarth Jain

Feel the Tension: Manipulation of Deformable Linear Objects in Environments with Fixtures using Force Information

Finn Süberkrüb, Rita Laezza, Yiannis Karayiannidis

Comments 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Validating Drone Trust Testing in Navigation Deviation Cases in Simulation

Zahra Rezaei Khavas, Edwin Meriaux, Amin Majdi, Paul Robinette

Comments 4 pages, 8 Figures, IROS 2023 workshop Social Robot Navigation: Advances and Evaluation (https://seanavbench23.pages.dev/papers),

Automated Gait Generation For Walking, Soft Robotic Quadrupeds

Jake Ketchum, Sophia Schiffer, Muchen Sun, Pranav Kaarthik, Ryan L. Truby, Todd D. Murphey

Comments 7 Pages, 6 Figures, Published at IROS 2023

Pick Planning Strategies for Large-Scale Package Manipulation

Shuai Li, Azarakhsh Keipour, Kevin Jamieson, Nicolas Hudson, Sicong Zhao, Charles Swan, Kostas Bekris

Comments 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Learning Meets Model-based Methods for Manipulation and Grasping Workshop

Task and Motion Planning with Large Language Models for Object Rearrangement

Yan Ding, Xiaohan Zhang, Chris Paxton, Shiqi Zhang

Comments Accpted by IEEE IROS 2023

Proactive Human-Robot Interaction using Visuo-Lingual Transformers

Pranay Mathur

Comments Accepted to IROS'23 Workshop: Geriatronics: AI and Robotics for Health & Well-Being in Older Age and Workshop: Assistive Robotics for Citizens

Improved Inference of Human Intent by Combining Plan Recognition and Language Feedback

Ifrah Idrees, Tian Yun, Naveen Sharma, Yunxin Deng, Nakul Gopalan, George Konidaris, Stefanie Tellex

Comments Published in IROS 2023

Probabilistic Differentiable Filters Enable Ubiquitous Robot Control with Smartwatches

Fabian C Weigend, Xiao Liu, Heni Ben Amor

Comments DiffPropRob Workshop IROS 2023 (Oral)

Superpixel Transformers for Efficient Semantic Segmentation

Alex Zihao Zhu, Jieru Mei, Siyuan Qiao, Hang Yan, Yukun Zhu, Liang-Chieh Chen, Henrik Kretzschmar

Comments 8 pages, 5 figures, 4 tables. Presented at IROS 2023. Equal contribution by A. Zhu and J. Mei

Annotation Cost Reduction of Stream-based Active Learning by Automated Weak Labeling using a Robot Arm

Kanata Suzuki, Taro Sunagawa, Tomotake Sasaki, Takashi Katoh

Comments Accepted at IROS 2021

In-air Knotting of Rope using Dual-Arm Robot based on Deep Learning

Kanata Suzuki, Momomi Kanamura, Yuki Suga, Hiroki Mori, Tetsuya Ogata

Comments Accepted at IROS 2021

Streaming Motion Forecasting for Autonomous Driving

Ziqi Pang, Deva Ramanan, Mengtian Li, Yu-Xiong Wang

Comments IROS 2023, 8 pages, 9 figures

A Preview of Open-Loop and Feedback Nash Trajectories in Racing Scenarios

Matthias Rowold

Comments This paper was presented at the IROS 2023 Workshop on Multi-agent Dynamic Games on October 1st, 2023 in Detroit as a virtual presentation

Towards Probabilistic Causal Discovery, Inference & Explanations for Autonomous Drones in Mine Surveying Tasks

Ricardo Cannizzaro, Rhys Howard, Paulina Lewinska, Lars Kunze

Comments 3 Pages, 3 Figures, 1 Algorithm, To be published in the Proceedings of the "Causality for Robotics: Answering the Question of Why" workshop at the 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Final submission version

ConSOR: A Context-Aware Semantic Object Rearrangement Framework for Partially Arranged Scenes

Kartik Ramachandruni, Max Zuo, Sonia Chernova

Comments Accepted to IROS 2023

Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning for Cooperative and Competitive Autonomous Vehicles using AutoDRIVE Ecosystem

Tanmay Vilas Samak, Chinmay Vilas Samak, Venkat Krovi

Comments Accepted as Multi-Agent Dynamic Games (MAD-Games) Workshop Paper at IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2023

Need for Speed: Fast Correspondence-Free Lidar-Inertial Odometry Using Doppler Velocity

David J. Yoon, Keenan Burnett, Johann Laconte, Yi Chen, Heethesh Vhavle, Soeren Kammel, James Reuther, Timothy D. Barfoot

Comments Accepted and presented at IROS 2023

An Attentional Recurrent Neural Network for Occlusion-Aware Proactive Anomaly Detection in Field Robot Navigation

Andre Schreiber, Tianchen Ji, D. Livingston McPherson, Katherine Driggs-Campbell

Comments Accepted at IROS 2023. Code available at https://github.com/andreschreiber/ROAR

A New 1-mg Fast Unimorph SMA-Based Actuator for Microrobotics

Conor K. Trygstad, Xuan-Truc Nguyen, Nestor O. Perez-Arancibia

Comments IROS 2023

Towards a Causal Probabilistic Framework for Prediction, Action-Selection & Explanations for Robot Block-Stacking Tasks

Ricardo Cannizzaro, Jonathan Routley, Lars Kunze

Comments 4 pages, 4 figures, camera-ready manuscript, accepted to the "Causality for Robotics: Answering the Question of Why" workshop at the 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

MOTLEE: Distributed Mobile Multi-Object Tracking with Localization Error Elimination

Mason B. Peterson, Parker C. Lusk, Jonathan P. How

Comments 8 pages, 8 figures, accepted to IROS 2023

Visual Contact Pressure Estimation for Grippers in the Wild

Jeremy A. Collins, Cody Houff, Patrick Grady, Charles C. Kemp

Comments Accepted for presentation at the 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2023)

Towards Rich, Portable, and Large-Scale Pedestrian Data Collection

Allan Wang, Abhijat Biswas, Henny Admoni, Aaron Steinfeld

Comments IROS 2022 Workshop paper (Evaluating Motion Planning Performance: Metrics, Tools, Datasets, and Experimental Design)