IEEE RA-L

W-RIZZ: A Weakly-Supervised Framework for Relative Traversability Estimation in Mobile Robotics

Andre Schreiber, Arun N. Sivakumar, Peter Du, Mateus V. Gasparino, Girish Chowdhary, Katherine Driggs-Campbell

Comments Accepted by RA-L. Code is available at https://github.com/andreschreiber/W-RIZZ

Distributed Online Planning for Min-Max Problems in Networked Markov Games

Alexandros E. Tzikas, Jinkyoo Park, Mykel J. Kochenderfer, Ross E. Allen

Comments Accepted to appear in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

PlaceFormer: Transformer-based Visual Place Recognition using Multi-Scale Patch Selection and Fusion

Shyam Sundar Kannan, Byung-Cheol Min

Comments Accepted for publication in Robotics and Automation Letters

Active Implicit Object Reconstruction using Uncertainty-guided Next-Best-View Optimization

Dongyu Yan, Jianheng Liu, Fengyu Quan, Haoyao Chen, Mengmeng Fu

Comments 8 pages, 11 figures, Submitted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)

GesGPT: Speech Gesture Synthesis With Text Parsing from ChatGPT

Nan Gao, Zeyu Zhao, Zhi Zeng, Shuwu Zhang, Dongdong Weng, Yihua Bao

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 9 (2024) 3

Skater: A Novel Bi-modal Bi-copter Robot for Adaptive Locomotion in Air and Diverse Terrain

Junxiao Lin, Ruibin Zhang, Neng Pan, Chao Xu, Fei Gao

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

GroundGrid:LiDAR Point Cloud Ground Segmentation and Terrain Estimation

Nicolai Steinke, Daniel Göhring, Raùl Rojas

Comments This letter has been accepted for publication in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 420-426, Jan. 2024

Decomposition-based Hierarchical Task Allocation and Planning for Multi-Robots under Hierarchical Temporal Logic Specifications

Xusheng Luo, Shaojun Xu, Ruixuan Liu, Changliu Liu

Comments 10 pages, 6 figures. Accepted by IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (extended version)

CoPeD-Advancing Multi-Robot Collaborative Perception: A Comprehensive Dataset in Real-World Environments

Yang Zhou, Long Quang, Carlos Nieto-Granda, Giuseppe Loianno

Comments 8 pages, 8 figures, 4 tables, Accepted at the IEEE Robotics Automation Letter (RA-L) 2024

Leveraging Natural Load Dynamics with Variable Gear-ratio Actuators

Alexandre Girard, H. Harry Asada

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters ( Volume: 2, Issue: 2, April 2017)

Multi-Contact Whole-Body Force Control for Position-Controlled Robots

Quentin Rouxel, Serena Ivaldi, Jean-Baptiste Mouret

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2024, 9 (6), pp.5639-5646

Self-Supervised Depth Correction of Lidar Measurements from Map Consistency Loss

Ruslan Agishev, Tomáš Pětříček, Karel Zimmermann

Comments Accepted to ICRA-2024, RA-L 2023

Journal ref 20 June 2023

Co-Occ: Coupling Explicit Feature Fusion with Volume Rendering Regularization for Multi-Modal 3D Semantic Occupancy Prediction

Jingyi Pan, Zipeng Wang, Lin Wang

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

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Volume 9 Issue 6, 5687 - 5694, June 2024

Multi S-Graphs: An Efficient Distributed Semantic-Relational Collaborative SLAM

Miguel Fernandez-Cortizas, Hriday Bavle, David Perez-Saura, Jose Luis Sanchez-Lopez, Pascual Campoy, Holger Voos

Comments 8 pages paper presented to IEEE RA-L

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

Self-Supervised Learning of Visual Servoing for Low-Rigidity Robots Considering Temporal Body Changes

Kento Kawaharazuka, Naoaki Kanazawa, Kei Okada, Masayuki Inaba

Comments Accepted at IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

RHAML: Rendezvous-based Hierarchical Architecture for Mutual Localization

Gaoming Chen, Kun Song, Xiang Xu, Wenhang Liu, Zhenhua Xiong

Comments 8 pages, 8 figures, submitted to RA-L

LLM-based Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning: Current and Future Directions

Chuanneng Sun, Songjun Huang, Dario Pompili

Comments 8 pages, 1 figure, 1 table, submitted to IEEE RA-L

Robust Self-Tuning Data Association for Geo-Referencing Using Lane Markings

Miguel Ángel Muñoz-Bañón, Jan-Hendrik Pauls, Haohao Hu, Christoph Stiller, Francisco A. Candelas, Fernando Torres

Comments The paper was published in the journal "IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters" (RA-L)

Journal ref In IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 12339-12346, Oct. 2022

No More Mumbles: Enhancing Robot Intelligibility through Speech Adaptation

Qiaoqiao Ren, Yuanbo Hou, Dick Botteldooren, Tony Belpaeme

Comments IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (IEEE RAL)

Geo-Localization Based on Dynamically Weighted Factor-Graph

Miguel Ángel Muñoz-Bañón, Alejandro Olivas, Edison Velasco-Sánchez, Francisco A. Candelas, Fernando Torres

Comments This paper is published in the journal "IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters"

Journal ref In IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 5599-5606, June 2024

BeautyMap: Binary-Encoded Adaptable Ground Matrix for Dynamic Points Removal in Global Maps

Mingkai Jia, Qingwen Zhang, Bowen Yang, Jin Wu, Ming Liu, Patric Jensfelt

Comments The first two authors are co-first authors. 8 pages, accepted by RA-L

Design and Evaluation of a Generic Visual SLAM Framework for Multi-Camera Systems

Pushyami Kaveti, Shankara Narayanan Vaidyanathan, Arvind Thamilchelvan, Hanumant Singh

Journal ref Nov 2023 IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters PP(99):1-8

Biased-MPPI: Informing Sampling-Based Model Predictive Control by Fusing Ancillary Controllers

Elia Trevisan, Javier Alonso-Mora

Comments Accepted for Robotics and Automation Letters, April 2024

Active Signal Emitter Placement In Complex Environments

Christopher E. Denniston, Baskın Şenbaşlar, Gaurav S. Sukhatme

Comments Submitted to RA-L

MEXGEN: An Effective and Efficient Information Gain Approximation for Information Gathering Path Planning

Joshua Chesser, Thuraiappah Sathyan, Damith C. Ranasinghe

Comments Accepted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)(Demo Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrsCC6MkaB4)

Estimating Visibility from Alternate Perspectives for Motion Planning with Occlusions

Barry Gilhuly, Armin Sadeghi, Stephen L. Smith

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

Learning to Communicate Functional States with Nonverbal Expressions for Improved Human-Robot Collaboration

Liam Roy, Dana Kulic, Elizabeth Croft

Comments 8 Pages, Accepted to RA-L March 2024

Journal ref LRA.2024.3384037

Fast Swarming of UAVs in GNSS-denied Feature-poor Environments without Explicit Communication

Jiri Horyna, Vit Kratky, Vaclav Pritzl, Tomas Baca, Eliseo Ferrante, Martin Saska

Comments Accepted to IEEE RA-L on March 22, 2024

Indoor and Outdoor 3D Scene Graph Generation via Language-Enabled Spatial Ontologies

Jared Strader, Nathan Hughes, William Chen, Alberto Speranzon, Luca Carlone

Comments 10 pages, 6 figures, accepted to Robotics and Automation Letters

A Spatiotemporal Hand-Eye Calibration for Trajectory Alignment in Visual(-Inertial) Odometry Evaluation

Zichao Shu, Lijun Li, Rui Wang, Zetao Chen

Comments 8 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 5134-5141, June 2024