IEEE RA-L

TAIL: A Terrain-Aware Multi-Modal SLAM Dataset for Robot Locomotion in Deformable Granular Environments

Chen Yao, Yangtao Ge, Guowei Shi, Zirui Wang, Ningbo Yang, Zheng Zhu, Hexiang Wei, Yuntian Zhao, Jing Wu, Zhenzhong Jia

Comments Submitted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Single-Motor Robotic Gripper with Multi-Surface Fingers for Variable Grasping Configurations

Toshihiro Nishimura, Yosuke Suzuki, Tokuo Tsuj, Tetsuyou Watanabe

Journal ref in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 9, no. 5, pp. 4114-4121, May 2024

PNAS-MOT: Multi-Modal Object Tracking with Pareto Neural Architecture Search

Chensheng Peng, Zhaoyu Zeng, Jinling Gao, Jundong Zhou, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Xinbing Wang, Chenghu Zhou, Nanyang Ye

Comments IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2024. Code is available at https://github.com/PholyPeng/PNAS-MOT

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2024

AiSDF: Structure-aware Neural Signed Distance Fields in Indoor Scenes

Jaehoon Jang, Inha Lee, Minje Kim, Kyungdon Joo

Comments 8 pages, 6 figures, Accepted to IEEE RA-L (First two authors contributed equally)

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), vol. 9, no. 5, pp. 4106-4113, 2024

Safety-Aware Perception for Autonomous Collision Avoidance in Dynamic Environments

Ryan M. Bena, Chongbo Zhao, Quan Nguyen

Journal ref in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 8, no. 12, pp. 7962-7969, Dec. 2023

Star-Searcher: A Complete and Efficient Aerial System for Autonomous Target Search in Complex Unknown Environments

Yiming Luo, Zixuan Zhuang, Neng Pan, Chen Feng, Shaojie Shen, Fei Gao, Hui Cheng, Boyu Zhou

Comments Aceepted to IEEE RA-L. Code: https://github.com/SYSU-STAR/STAR-Searcher. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08ll_oo_DtU

Towards Dense and Accurate Radar Perception Via Efficient Cross-Modal Diffusion Model

Ruibin Zhang, Donglai Xue, Yuhan Wang, Ruixu Geng, Fei Gao

Comments 8 pages, 6 figures, submitted to RA-L

Continuous Object State Recognition for Cooking Robots Using Pre-Trained Vision-Language Models and Black-box Optimization

Kento Kawaharazuka, Naoaki Kanazawa, Yoshiki Obinata, Kei Okada, Masayuki Inaba

Comments accepted at IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), website - https://haraduka.github.io/continuous-state-recognition/

Design Optimization of Wire Arrangement with Variable Relay Points in Numerical Simulation for Tendon-driven Robots

Kento Kawaharazuka, Shunnosuke Yoshimura, Temma Suzuki, Kei Okada, Masayuki Inaba

Comments accepted at IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), website - https://haraduka.github.io/muscle-arrange-optimization/

Local positional graphs and attentive local features for a data and runtime-efficient hierarchical place recognition pipeline

Fangming Yuan, Stefan Schubert, Peter Protzel, Peer Neubert

Comments IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)

Pushing in the Dark: A Reactive Pushing Strategy for Mobile Robots Using Tactile Feedback

Idil Ozdamar, Doganay Sirintuna, Robin Arbaud, Arash Ajoudani

Comments 8 pages, 7 figures, submitted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, for associated video, see https://youtu.be/IuGxlNe246M

Stein Variational Belief Propagation for Multi-Robot Coordination

Jana Pavlasek, Joshua Jing Zhi Mah, Ruihan Xu, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins, Fabio Ramos

Comments 8 pages, accepted for publication in Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L); experiment updated, background methodology added

Real-time Neural Dense Elevation Mapping for Urban Terrain with Uncertainty Estimations

Bowen Yang, Qingwen Zhang, Ruoyu Geng, Lujia Wang, Ming Liu

Comments 8 pages, 7 figures, accepted by IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 696-703, 2023

Mobile-Seed: Joint Semantic Segmentation and Boundary Detection for Mobile Robots

Youqi Liao, Shuhao Kang, Jianping Li, Yang Liu, Yun Liu, Zhen Dong, Bisheng Yang, Xieyuanli Chen

Comments Accepted by IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) 2024. Code, pre-trained models and additional results are available at https://whu-usi3dv.github.io/Mobile-Seed/

ESVIO: Event-based Stereo Visual Inertial Odometry

Peiyu Chen, Weipeng Guan, Peng Lu

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (Volume: 8, Issue: 6, June 2023)

Laser-to-Vehicle Extrinsic Calibration in Low-Observability Scenarios for Subsea Mapping

Thomas Hitchcox, James Richard Forbes

Comments 8 pages, 8 figures. Accepted for publication in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. Updated to include vol., no., and page nos

Design and Control of a Small Humanoid Equipped with Flight Unit and Wheels for Multimodal Locomotion

Kazuki Sugihara, Moju Zhao, Takuzumi Nishio, Tasuku Makabe, Kei Okada, Masayuki Inaba

Comments 8 pages, 17 figures. Accepted by IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

A Sim-to-Real Deep Learning-based Framework for Autonomous Nano-drone Racing

Lorenzo Lamberti, Elia Cereda, Gabriele Abbate, Lorenzo Bellone, Victor Javier Kartsch Morinigo, Michał Barcis, Agata Barcis, Alessandro Giusti, Francesco Conti, Daniele Palossi

Comments 8 pages, 10 Figures, 3 Tables, This paper has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL). Copyright 2023 IEEE

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (Volume: 9, Issue: 2, February 2024)

DRAGON: A Dialogue-Based Robot for Assistive Navigation with Visual Language Grounding

Shuijing Liu, Aamir Hasan, Kaiwen Hong, Runxuan Wang, Peixin Chang, Zachary Mizrachi, Justin Lin, D. Livingston McPherson, Wendy A. Rogers, Katherine Driggs-Campbell

Comments Published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)

Fine Robotic Manipulation without Force/Torque Sensor

Shilin Shan, Quang-Cuong Pham

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

SAQIEL: Ultra-Light and Safe Manipulator with Passive 3D Wire Alignment Mechanism

Temma Suzuki, Masahiro Bando, Kento Kawaharazuka, Kei Okada, Masayuki Inaba

Comments accepted at IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), website -https://tenrobo18.github.io/saqiel-ral2023-webpage/

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (2024)

KVN: Keypoints Voting Network with Differentiable RANSAC for Stereo Pose Estimation

Ivano Donadi, Alberto Pretto

Comments Published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 3498-3505, April 2024

BotanicGarden: A High-Quality Dataset for Robot Navigation in Unstructured Natural Environments

Yuanzhi Liu, Yujia Fu, Minghui Qin, Yufeng Xu, Baoxin Xu, Fengdong Chen, Bart Goossens, Poly Z. H. Sun, Hongwei Yu, Chun Liu, Long Chen, Wei Tao, Hui Zhao

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

MS-Net: A Multi-Path Sparse Model for Motion Prediction in Multi-Scenes

Xiaqiang Tang, Weigao Sun, Siyuan Hu, Yiyang Sun, Yafeng Guo

Comments Accepted by IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL)

High-Speed Detector For Low-Powered Devices In Aerial Grasping

Ashish Kumar, Laxmidhar Behera

Comments 8 Pages, 9 Figures, 8 Tables, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (IEEE RA-L)

Navigation and Control of Unconventional VTOL UAVs in Forward-Flight with Explicit Wind Velocity Estimation

Mitchell Cohen, James Richard Forbes

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

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 1151-1158, June 2020

The Invariant Rauch-Tung-Striebel Smoother

Niels van der Laan, Mitchell Cohen, Jonathan Arsenault, James Richard Forbes

Comments 8 pages, 3 figures, published in Robotics and Automation Letters

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, no. 4, pp 5067-5074, June 2020

Onboard dynamic-object detection and tracking for autonomous robot navigation with RGB-D camera

Zhefan Xu, Xiaoyang Zhan, Yumeng Xiu, Christopher Suzuki, Kenji Shimada

Comments 8 pages, 10 figures, 2 tables

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Volume: 9, Issue: 1, January 2024. Page(s): 651 - 658

Training Robots without Robots: Deep Imitation Learning for Master-to-Robot Policy Transfer

Heecheol Kim, Yoshiyuki Ohmura, Akihiko Nagakubo, Yasuo Kuniyoshi

Comments 8 pages

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 8.5 (2023): 2906-2913

CLIPPER+: A Fast Maximal Clique Algorithm for Robust Global Registration

Kaveh Fathian, Tyler Summers

Journal ref IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS, 2024