IEEE RA-L

Syn-Mediverse: A Multimodal Synthetic Dataset for Intelligent Scene Understanding of Healthcare Facilities

Rohit Mohan, José Arce, Sassan Mokhtar, Daniele Cattaneo, Abhinav Valada

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 9, no. 8, pp. 7094-7101, Aug. 2024

Variable-Frequency Model Learning and Predictive Control for Jumping Maneuvers on Legged Robots

Chuong Nguyen, Abdullah Altawaitan, Thai Duong, Nikolay Atanasov, Quan Nguyen

Comments 8 pages, accepted to RAL 2024

Effects of Shared Control on Cognitive Load and Trust in Teleoperated Trajectory Tracking

Jiahe Pan, Jonathan Eden, Denny Oetomo, Wafa Johal

Comments 8 pages, 4 figures

Journal ref in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 5863-5870, June 2024

From Instantaneous to Predictive Control: A More Intuitive and Tunable MPC Formulation for Robot Manipulators

Johan Ubbink, Ruan Viljoen, Erwin Aertbeliën, Wilm Decré, Joris De Schutter

Comments Accepted for the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

A Certifiable Algorithm for Simultaneous Shape Estimation and Object Tracking

Lorenzo Shaikewitz, Samuel Ubellacker, Luca Carlone

Comments Accepted to IEEE RA-L. 11 pages, 6 figures (with appendix). Code released at https://github.com/MIT-SPARK/certifiable_tracking. Video available at https://youtu.be/eTIlVD9pDtc

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 9, no. 12, pp. 11873-11880, Dec. 2024

RANSAC Back to SOTA: A Two-stage Consensus Filtering for Real-time 3D Registration

Pengcheng Shi, Shaocheng Yan, Yilin Xiao, Xinyi Liu, Yongjun Zhang, Jiayuan Li

Comments 8 pages, 9 figures

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol.9, no.12, pp.11881-11888, 2024

OMEGA: Efficient Occlusion-Aware Navigation for Air-Ground Robot in Dynamic Environments via State Space Model

Junming Wang, Xiuxian Guan, Zekai Sun, Tianxiang Shen, Dong Huang, Fangming Liu, Heming Cui

Comments Accepted to IEEE RA-L | OccMamba is here!

Are Doppler Velocity Measurements Useful for Spinning Radar Odometry?

Daniil Lisus, Keenan Burnett, David J. Yoon, Richard Poulton, John Marshall, Timothy D. Barfoot

Comments 8 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables, accepted to Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 224-231, Jan. 2025

Optimizing Plastic Waste Collection in Water Bodies Using Heterogeneous Autonomous Surface Vehicles with Deep Reinforcement Learning

Alejandro Mendoza Barrionuevo, Samuel Yanes Luis, Daniel Gutiérrez Reina, Sergio L. Toral Marín

Comments This article is currently under revision for the Robotics and Automation Letters (IEEE)

Understanding Particles From Video: Property Estimation of Granular Materials via Visuo-Haptic Learning

Zeqing Zhang, Guangze Zheng, Xuebo Ji, Guanqi Chen, Ruixing Jia, Wentao Chen, Guanhua Chen, Liangjun Zhang, Jia Pan

Comments IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, with ICRA 2025

SEDMamba: Enhancing Selective State Space Modelling with Bottleneck Mechanism and Fine-to-Coarse Temporal Fusion for Efficient Error Detection in Robot-Assisted Surgery

Jialang Xu, Nazir Sirajudeen, Matthew Boal, Nader Francis, Danail Stoyanov, Evangelos Mazomenos

Comments Accepted by IEEE RA-L

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 232-239, Jan. 2025

A Good Foundation is Worth Many Labels: Label-Efficient Panoptic Segmentation

Niclas Vödisch, Kürsat Petek, Markus Käppeler, Abhinav Valada, Wolfram Burgard

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 216-223, January 2025

Multi-Robot Rendezvous in Unknown Environment with Limited Communication

Kun Song, Gaoming Chen, Wenhang Liu, Zhenhua Xiong

Comments Accepted by RAL. 8 pages, 6 figures. Code at https://github.com/KunSong-L/Distributed-Multi-Robot-Topological-Map

Journal ref Volume: 9, Issue: 11, November 2024, Page(s): 9478 - 9485

Deep Dynamics: Vehicle Dynamics Modeling with a Physics-Constrained Neural Network for Autonomous Racing

John Chrosniak, Jingyun Ning, Madhur Behl

Comments Published in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters and presented at the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (Volume: 9, Issue: 6, June 2024), 5292 - 5297

MASP: Scalable GNN-based Planning for Multi-Agent Navigation

Xinyi Yang, Xinting Yang, Chao Yu, Jiayu Chen, Wenbo Ding, Huazhong Yang, Yu Wang

Comments Submitted to IEEE RA-L

Think Step by Step: Chain-of-Gesture Prompting for Error Detection in Robotic Surgical Videos

Zhimin Shao, Jialang Xu, Danail Stoyanov, Evangelos B. Mazomenos, Yueming Jin

Comments 8 pages, 4 figures

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 9, no. 12, pp. 11513-11520, Dec. 2024

DexTouch: Learning to Seek and Manipulate Objects with Tactile Dexterity

Kang-Won Lee, Yuzhe Qin, Xiaolong Wang, Soo-Chul Lim

Comments Project page: https://lee-kangwon.github.io/dextouch/; published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)

Bimanual Grasp Synthesis for Dexterous Robot Hands

Yanming Shao, Chenxi Xiao

Comments Published in RA-L 24', 8 pages, 9 figures, 3 tables

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 9, no. 12, pp. 11377-11384, Dec. 2024

A Diffusion-based Data Generator for Training Object Recognition Models in Ultra-Range Distance

Eran Bamani, Eden Nissinman, Lisa Koenigsberg, Inbar Meir, Avishai Sintov

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2024

A Benchmark Dataset for Collaborative SLAM in Service Environments

Harin Park, Inha Lee, Minje Kim, Hyungyu Park, Kyungdon Joo

Comments 8 pages, 6 figures, Accepted to IEEE RA-L

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), vol. 9, no. 12, pp. 11337-11344, Dec. 2024

FracGM: A Fast Fractional Programming Technique for Geman-McClure Robust Estimator

Bang-Shien Chen, Yu-Kai Lin, Jian-Yu Chen, Chih-Wei Huang, Jann-Long Chern, Ching-Cherng Sun

Comments 8 pages, 6 figures

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 9(12), 11666-11673, 2024

Geometric Static Modeling Framework for Piecewise-Continuous Curved-Link Multi Point-of-Contact Tensegrity Robots

Lauren Ervin, Vishesh Vikas

Comments This work is published on IEEE RA-L. Please refer to the published article below: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10734217 L. Ervin and V. Vikas, "Geometric Static Modeling Framework for Piecewise-Continuous Curved-Link Multi Point-of-Contact Tensegrity Robots," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 9, no. 12, pp. 11066-11073, Dec. 2024, doi: 10.1109/LRA.2024.3486199

Journal ref in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 9, pp. 11066-11073, 2024

GenZ-ICP: Generalizable and Degeneracy-Robust LiDAR Odometry Using an Adaptive Weighting

Daehan Lee, Hyungtae Lim, Soohee Han

Comments 8 pages, 5 figures, Accepted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)

Journal ref 2024 IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)

HPA-MPC: Hybrid Perception-Aware Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for Quadrotors with Suspended Loads

Mrunal Sarvaiya, Guanrui Li, Giuseppe Loianno

Comments Accepted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Improving Visual Place Recognition Based Robot Navigation By Verifying Localization Estimates

Owen Claxton, Connor Malone, Helen Carson, Jason Ford, Gabe Bolton, Iman Shames, Michael Milford

Comments Author Accepted Preprint for Robotics and Automation Letters

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2024

QT-TDM: Planning With Transformer Dynamics Model and Autoregressive Q-Learning

Mostafa Kotb, Cornelius Weber, Muhammad Burhan Hafez, Stefan Wermter

Comments Accepted by IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)

Evaluating Text-to-Image Diffusion Models for Texturing Synthetic Data

Thomas Lips, Francis wyffels

Comments Submitted to RA-L

'What did the Robot do in my Absence?' Video Foundation Models to Enhance Intermittent Supervision

Kavindie Katuwandeniya, Leimin Tian, Dana Kulić

Comments This work has been submitted to the IEEE RAL for possible publication

Adaptive Body Schema Learning System Considering Additional Muscles for Musculoskeletal Humanoids

Kento Kawaharazuka, Akihiro Miki, Yasunori Toshimitsu, Kei Okada, Masayuki Inaba

Comments Accepted at IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Self-Body Image Acquisition and Posture Generation with Redundancy using Musculoskeletal Humanoid Shoulder Complex for Object Manipulation

Yuya Koga, Kento Kawaharazuka, Yasunori Toshimitsu, Manabu Nishiura, Yusuke Omura, Yuki Asano, Kei Okada, Koji Kawasaki, Masayuki Inaba

Comments Accepted at IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters