IEEE RA-L

DriveGPT4: Interpretable End-to-end Autonomous Driving via Large Language Model

Zhenhua Xu, Yujia Zhang, Enze Xie, Zhen Zhao, Yong Guo, Kwan-Yee. K. Wong, Zhenguo Li, Hengshuang Zhao

Comments Accepted by RA-L. The project page is available at https://tonyxuqaq.github.io/projects/DriveGPT4/

Safe Reinforcement Learning of Robot Trajectories in the Presence of Moving Obstacles

Jonas Kiemel, Ludovic Righetti, Torsten Kröger, Tamim Asfour

Comments IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L); 8 pages; 7 figures

Learning-based Nonlinear Model Predictive Control of Articulated Soft Robots using Recurrent Neural Networks

Hendrik Schäfke, Tim-Lukas Habich, Christian Muhmann, Simon F. G. Ehlers, Thomas Seel, Moritz Schappler

Comments Accepted for publication in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) 2024

Hybrid Attention for Robust RGB-T Pedestrian Detection in Real-World Conditions

Arunkumar Rathinam, Leo Pauly, Abd El Rahman Shabayek, Wassim Rharbaoui, Anis Kacem, Vincent Gaudillière, Djamila Aouada

Comments Accepted for publication in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, October 2024

Chance-Constrained Convex MPC for Robust Quadruped Locomotion Under Parametric and Additive Uncertainties

Ananya Trivedi, Sarvesh Prajapati, Mark Zolotas, Michael Everett, Taskin Padir

Comments Under review for Robotics and Automation Letters

Automatic Target-Less Camera-LiDAR Calibration From Motion and Deep Point Correspondences

Kürsat Petek, Niclas Vödisch, Johannes Meyer, Daniele Cattaneo, Abhinav Valada, Wolfram Burgard

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 9, no. 11, pp. 9978-9985, November 2024

S3E: A Multi-Robot Multimodal Dataset for Collaborative SLAM

Dapeng Feng, Yuhua Qi, Shipeng Zhong, Zhiqiang Chen, Qiming Chen, Hongbo Chen, Jin Wu, Jun Ma

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

Transformer-based Model Predictive Control: Trajectory Optimization via Sequence Modeling

Davide Celestini, Daniele Gammelli, Tommaso Guffanti, Simone D'Amico, Elisa Capello, Marco Pavone

Comments 8 pages, 7 figures. Datasets, videos and code available at: https://transformermpc.github.io

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 9, n. 11, pp. 9820-9827, Nov. 2024

FM-Fusion: Instance-aware Semantic Mapping Boosted by Vision-Language Foundation Models

Chuhao Liu, Ke Wang, Jieqi Shi, Zhijian Qiao, Shaojie Shen

Comments Published in IEEE RAL

Journal ref vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 2232-2239, March 2024

Long-Term Human Trajectory Prediction using 3D Dynamic Scene Graphs

Nicolas Gorlo, Lukas Schmid, Luca Carlone

Comments 8 pages, 6 figures. Accepted at IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). Code released at: https://github.com/MIT-SPARK/LP2

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 9, no. 12, pp. 10978-10985, Dec. 2024

Uncertainty-Constrained Differential Dynamic Programming in Belief Space for Vision Based Robots

Shatil Rahman, Steven L. Waslander

Comments This work has been submitted to the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) with the Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) option for possible publication

Message-Aware Graph Attention Networks for Large-Scale Multi-Robot Path Planning

Qingbiao Li, Weizhe Lin, Zhe Liu, Amanda Prorok

Comments This work has been accepted to the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) for publication

Handling Constrained Optimization in Factor Graphs for Autonomous Navigation

Barbara Bazzana, Tiziano Guadagnino, Giorgio Grisetti

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

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (Volume: 8, Issue: 1, January 2023), pp. 432-439

RSV: Robotic Sonography for Thyroid Volumetry

John Zielke, Christine Eilers, Benjamin Busam, Wolfgang Weber, Nassir Navab, Thomas Wendler

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

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 3342-3348, April 2022

Geometry-Based Grasping of Vine Tomatoes

Taeke de Haan, Padmaja Kulkarni, Robert Babuska

Comments 8 pages, 12 figures. This work has been submitted to the IEEE for possible publication (IROS + RAL)

AIVIO: Closed-loop, Object-relative Navigation of UAVs with AI-aided Visual Inertial Odometry

Thomas Jantos, Martin Scheiber, Christian Brommer, Eren Allak, Stephan Weiss, Jan Steinbrener

Comments Accepted for publication in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2024

Characterizing Manipulation Robustness through Energy Margin and Caging Analysis

Yifei Dong, Xianyi Cheng, Florian T. Pokorny

Comments 8 pages, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (2024)

Conditional Neural Expert Processes for Learning Movement Primitives from Demonstration

Yigit Yildirim, Emre Ugur

Comments This work has been submitted to the IEEE RA-L for possible publication. Submitted to Robotics and Automation Letters on July 5, 2024

A Safe Preference Learning Approach for Personalization with Applications to Autonomous Vehicles

Ruya Karagulle, Nikos Arechiga, Andrew Best, Jonathan DeCastro, Necmiye Ozay

Comments 9 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables. This work has been published at IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Saving the Limping: Fault-tolerant Quadruped Locomotion via Reinforcement Learning

Dikai Liu, Tianwei Zhang, Jianxiong Yin, Simon See

Comments This work has been submitted to IEEE RA-L for possible publication. Project website for video: https://johnliudk.github.io/saving-the-limping/

VG-Swarm: A Vision-based Gene Regulation Network for UAVs Swarm Behavior Emergence

Yuwei Cai, Huanlin Li, Zhun Fan, Juncao Hong, Peng Xu, Hui Cheng, Xiaomi Zhu, Bingliang Hu, Zhifeng Hao

Comments This work has been submitted to the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) for possible publication

Direction and Trajectory Tracking Control for Nonholonomic Spherical Robot by Combining Sliding Mode Controller and Model Prediction Controller

Yifan Liu, Yixu Wang, Xiaoqing Guan, Tao Hu, Ziang Zhang, Song Jin, You Wang, Jie Hao, Guang Li

Comments This work has been submitted to the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters RA-L for possible publication

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2022

Kinematic Control of Redundant Robots with Online Handling of Variable Generalized Hard Constraints

Amirhossein Kazemipour, Maram Khatib, Khaled Al Khudir, Claudio Gaz, Alessandro De Luca

Comments 8 pages, 10 figures. This work has been submitted to the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2022 with RA-L option) for possible publication

Cross-view and Cross-domain Underwater Localization based on Optical Aerial and Acoustic Underwater Images

Matheus M. Dos Santos, Giovanni G. De Giacomo, Paulo L. J. Drews-Jr, Silvia S. C. Botelho

Comments This work has been submitted to the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) for possible publication

Transformer-Enhanced Motion Planner: Attention-Guided Sampling for State-Specific Decision Making

Lei Zhuang, Jingdong Zhao, Yuntao Li, Zichun Xu, Liangliang Zhao, Hong Liu

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

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

Terrain-Aware Stride-Level Trajectory Forecasting for a Powered Hip Exoskeleton via Vision and Kinematics Fusion

Ruoqi Zhao, Xingbang Yan, Yubo Fan

Comments 6 pages, submitted to IEEE RA-L, under review. This work has been submitted to the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) for possible publication

3D Uncertain Implicit Surface Mapping using GMM and GP

Qianqian Zou, Monika Sester

Comments This work has been accepted by the IEEE RA-L

Thermal Chameleon: Task-Adaptive Tone-mapping for Radiometric Thermal-Infrared images

Dong-Guw Lee, Jeongyun Kim, Younggun Cho, Ayoung Kim

Comments Published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (2024)

Screw Geometry Meets Bandits: Incremental Acquisition of Demonstrations to Generate Manipulation Plans

Dibyendu Das, Aditya Patankar, Nilanjan Chakraborty, C. R. Ramakrishnan, I. V. Ramakrishnan

Comments 8 pages, 6 figures, under review in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Bayesian optimization for robust robotic grasping using a sensorized compliant hand

Juan G. Lechuz-Sierra, Ana Elvira H. Martin, Ashok M. Sundaram, Ruben Martinez-Cantin, Máximo A. Roa

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters ( Volume: 9, Issue: 11, November 2024)