IEEE RA-L

RMS: Redundancy-Minimizing Point Cloud Sampling for Real-Time Pose Estimation

Pavel Petracek, Kostas Alexis, Martin Saska

Comments Accepted to IEEE RA-L on March 31, 2024

Pixel to Elevation: Learning to Predict Elevation Maps at Long Range using Images for Autonomous Offroad Navigation

Chanyoung Chung, Georgios Georgakis, Patrick Spieler, Curtis Padgett, Ali Agha, Shehryar Khattak

Comments 8 pages, 6 figures, Accepted in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)

Incremental Multimodal Surface Mapping via Self-Organizing Gaussian Mixture Models

Kshitij Goel, Wennie Tabib

Comments 8 pages, 7 figures, published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

SPONGE: Open-Source Designs of Modular Articulated Soft Robots

Tim-Lukas Habich, Jonas Haack, Mehdi Belhadj, Dustin Lehmann, Thomas Seel, Moritz Schappler

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

An Origami-Inspired Variable Friction Surface for Increasing the Dexterity of Robotic Grippers

Qiujie Lu, Angus B. Clark, Matthew Shen, Nicolas Rojas

Comments 8 pages, 11 figures

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 2538-2545, April 2020

Traversability-aware Adaptive Optimization for Path Planning and Control in Mountainous Terrain

Se-Wook Yoo, E In Son, Seung-Woo Seo

Comments 8 pages, 7 figures, accepted 2024 RA-L

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2024

Can an Embodied Agent Find Your "Cat-shaped Mug"? LLM-Guided Exploration for Zero-Shot Object Navigation

Vishnu Sashank Dorbala, James F. Mullen, Dinesh Manocha

Comments 10 pages

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 9.5 (2024) 4083-4090

Communicating Inferred Goals with Passive Augmented Reality and Active Haptic Feedback

James F. Mullen, Josh Mosier, Sounak Chakrabarti, Anqi Chen, Tyler White, Dylan P. Losey

Comments 8 pages, 5 figures

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 6.4 (2021) 8522-8529

DBPF: A Framework for Efficient and Robust Dynamic Bin-Picking

Yichuan Li, Junkai Zhao, Yixiao Li, Zheng Wu, Rui Cao, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Yunhui Liu

Comments 8 pages, 5 figures. This paper has been accepted by IEEE RA-L on 2024-03-24. See the supplementary video at youtube: https://youtu.be/n5af2VsKhkg

Toward Reliable Human Pose Forecasting with Uncertainty

Saeed Saadatnejad, Mehrshad Mirmohammadi, Matin Daghyani, Parham Saremi, Yashar Zoroofchi Benisi, Amirhossein Alimohammadi, Zahra Tehraninasab, Taylor Mordan, Alexandre Alahi

Comments Published in RA-L 2024

Volumetric Occupancy Mapping With Probabilistic Depth Completion for Robotic Navigation

Marija Popovic, Florian Thomas, Sotiris Papatheodorou, Nils Funk, Teresa Vidal-Calleja, Stefan Leutenegger

Comments 8 pages, 10 figures, submission to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (revised)

Beyond Gait: Learning Knee Angle for Seamless Prosthesis Control in Multiple Scenarios

Pengwei Wang, Yilong Chen, Wan Su, Jie Wang, Teng Ma, Haoyong Yu

Comments 8 pages, 6 figures, This work has been submitted to the IEEE-RAL for possible publication

Femtosecond laser fabricated nitinol living hinges for millimeter-sized robots

Alexander Hedrick, Heiko Kabutz, Lawrence Smith, Robert MacCurdy, Kaushik Jayaram

Comments 7 pages, 4 figures, submitted to IEEE RA-L

Discovering Closed-Loop Failures of Vision-Based Controllers via Reachability Analysis

Kaustav Chakraborty, Somil Bansal

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 8.5 (2023): 2692-2699

Learning to Fly in Seconds

Jonas Eschmann, Dario Albani, Giuseppe Loianno

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

Leadership Inference for Multi-Agent Interactions

Hamzah Khan, David Fridovich-Keil

Comments 8 pages, 5 figures, accepted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Breaking Symmetries Leads to Diverse Quadrupedal Gaits

Jiayu Ding, Zhenyu Gan

Comments Please refer to the published version to cite this paper

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2024

Learning Continuous Grasping Function with a Dexterous Hand from Human Demonstrations

Jianglong Ye, Jiashun Wang, Binghao Huang, Yuzhe Qin, Xiaolong Wang

Comments Accepted to RA-L 2023 & IROS 2023. Project page: https://jianglongye.com/cgf

Online Learning of Joint-Muscle Mapping Using Vision in Tendon-driven Musculoskeletal Humanoids

Kento Kawaharazuka, Shogo Makino, Masaya Kawamura, Yuki Asano, Kei Okada, Masayuki Inaba

Comments Accepted at IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2018

Long-time Self-body Image Acquisition and its Application to the Control of Musculoskeletal Structures

Kento Kawaharazuka, Kei Tsuzuki, Shogo Makino, Moritaka Onitsuka, Yuki Asano, Kei Okada, Koji Kawasaki, Masayuki Inaba

Comments Accepted at IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2019

Salient Sparse Visual Odometry With Pose-Only Supervision

Siyu Chen, Kangcheng Liu, Chen Wang, Shenghai Yuan, Jianfei Yang, Lihua Xie

Comments Accepted by IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

D-VAT: End-to-End Visual Active Tracking for Micro Aerial Vehicles

Alberto Dionigi, Simone Felicioni, Mirko Leomanni, Gabriele Costante

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2024

CenterGrasp: Object-Aware Implicit Representation Learning for Simultaneous Shape Reconstruction and 6-DoF Grasp Estimation

Eugenio Chisari, Nick Heppert, Tim Welschehold, Wolfram Burgard, Abhinav Valada

Comments Accepted at RA-L. Video, code and models available at http://centergrasp.cs.uni-freiburg.de

Accounting for Hysteresis in the Forward Kinematics of Nonlinearly-Routed Tendon-Driven Continuum Robots via a Learned Deep Decoder Network

Brian Y. Cho, Daniel S. Esser, Jordan Thompson, Bao Thach, Robert J. Webster, Alan Kuntz

Comments 8 pages, 9 figures, Submitted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Learning Optimal Topology for Ad-hoc Robot Networks

Matin Macktoobian, Zhan Shu, Qing Zhao

Comments This version is the one published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2023

First do not fall: learning to exploit a wall with a damaged humanoid robot

Timothée Anne, Eloïse Dalin, Ivan Bergonzani, Serena Ivaldi, Jean-Baptiste Mouret

Comments Accepted in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, June, 2022 Video presenting the results: https://youtu.be/hbuWr-ZNAtg

Versatile LiDAR-Inertial Odometry With SE (2) Constraints for Ground Vehicles

Jiaying Chen, Han Wang, Minghui Hu, Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2023

From Propeller Damage Estimation and Adaptation to Fault Tolerant Control: Enhancing Quadrotor Resilience

Jeffrey Mao, Jennifer Yeom, Suraj Nair, Giuseppe Loianno

Comments 8 Pages, 8 Figures

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (2024) Vol. 9 Issue 5

Visual Spatial Attention and Proprioceptive Data-Driven Reinforcement Learning for Robust Peg-in-Hole Task Under Variable Conditions

André Yuji Yasutomi, Hideyuki Ichiwara, Hiroshi Ito, Hiroki Mori, Tetsuya Ogata

Comments Published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters on 08 February 2023

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 8, issue 3, pp. 1834-1841, 2023

SO(2)-Equivariant Downwash Models for Close Proximity Flight

H. Smith, A. Shankar, J. Gielis, J. Blumenkamp, A. Prorok

Journal ref Smith, H., Shankar, A., Gielis, J., Blumenkamp, J., & Prorok, A. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 9(2) (2024) 1174-1181