IEEE RA-L

Deploying and Evaluating LLMs to Program Service Mobile Robots

Zichao Hu, Francesca Lucchetti, Claire Schlesinger, Yash Saxena, Anders Freeman, Sadanand Modak, Arjun Guha, Joydeep Biswas

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

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 2853-2860, March 2024

Leveraging Demonstrator-perceived Precision for Safe Interactive Imitation Learning of Clearance-limited Tasks

Hanbit Oh, Takamitsu Matsubara

Comments 8 pages, 5 figures, accepted by IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) 2024

Safe Low-Altitude Navigation in Steep Terrain with Fixed-Wing Aerial Vehicles

Jaeyoung Lim, Florian Achermann, Rik Girod, Nicholas Lawrance, Roland Siegwart

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

DisMech: A Discrete Differential Geometry-based Physical Simulator for Soft Robots and Structures

Andrew Choi, Ran Jing, Andrew Sabelhaus, Mohammad Khalid Jawed

Comments IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L 2024). Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jE9h5GpOek

mBEST: Realtime Deformable Linear Object Detection Through Minimal Bending Energy Skeleton Pixel Traversals

Andrew Choi, Dezhong Tong, Brian Park, Demetri Terzopoulos, Jungseock Joo, Mohammad Khalid Jawed

Comments IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L 2023). YouTube video: https://youtu.be/q84I9i0DOK4

Incipient Slip Detection by Vibration Injection into Soft Sensor

Naoto Komeno, Takamitsu Matsubara

Comments 8 pages, Accepted by Robotics and Automation Letters

Energy-aware Multi-UAV Coverage Mission Planning with Optimal Speed of Flight

Denys Datsko, Frantisek Nekovar, Robert Penicka, Martin Saska

Comments in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 2893-2900, March 2024

Orbit: A Unified Simulation Framework for Interactive Robot Learning Environments

Mayank Mittal, Calvin Yu, Qinxi Yu, Jingzhou Liu, Nikita Rudin, David Hoeller, Jia Lin Yuan, Ritvik Singh, Yunrong Guo, Hammad Mazhar, Ajay Mandlekar, Buck Babich, Gavriel State, Marco Hutter, Animesh Garg

Comments Project website: https://isaac-orbit.github.io/

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

Pick and Place Planning is Better than Pick Planning then Place Planning

Mohanraj Devendran Shanthi, Tucker Hermans

Comments 8 pages, 14 figures, IEEE RA-L

Journal ref IEEE RA-L, Volume 9 Issue 3, 2024, 2790 - 2797

CLIPPER: Robust Data Association without an Initial Guess

Parker C. Lusk, Jonathan P. How

Comments 8 pages, 4 figures, accepted to RA-L

Visual Servoing NMPC Applied to UAVs for Photovoltaic Array Inspection

Edison P. Velasco-Sánchez, Luis F. Recalde, Bryan S. Guevara, José Varela-Aldás, Francisco A. Candelas, Santiago T. Puente, Daniel C. Gandolfo

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

Connecting Gaits in Energetically Conservative Legged Systems

Maximilian Raff, Nelson Rosa, C. David Remy

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 7 no. 3, pp. 8407-8414, 2022

Motion Perceiver: Real-Time Occupancy Forecasting for Embedded Systems

Bryce Ferenczi, Michael Burke, Tom Drummond

Comments 8 pages, 6 figures, Accepted for publication in IEEE RA-L 2024

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2024

Collaborative Multi-Object Tracking with Conformal Uncertainty Propagation

Sanbao Su, Songyang Han, Yiming Li, Zhili Zhang, Chen Feng, Caiwen Ding, Fei Miao

Comments This paper has been accepted by IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Multi-FLEX: An Automatic Task Sequence Execution Framework to Enable Reactive Motion Planning for Multi-Robot Applications

Gaurav Misra, Akihiro Suzumura, Andres Rodriguez Campo, Kautilya Chenna, Sean Bailey, John Drinkard

Comments Preprint submitted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Robust Body Exposure (RoBE): A Graph-based Dynamics Modeling Approach to Manipulating Blankets over People

Kavya Puthuveetil, Sasha Wald, Atharva Pusalkar, Pratyusha Karnati, Zackory Erickson

Comments published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 8 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables

You Only Look Bottom-Up for Monocular 3D Object Detection

Kaixin Xiong, Dingyuan Zhang, Dingkang Liang, Zhe Liu, Hongcheng Yang, Wondimu Dikubab, Jianwei Cheng, Xiang Bai

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

E(2)-Equivariant Graph Planning for Navigation

Linfeng Zhao, Hongyu Li, Taskin Padir, Huaizu Jiang, Lawson L. S. Wong

Comments Accepted by RA-L

Distributed Simultaneous Localisation and Auto-Calibration using Gaussian Belief Propagation

Riku Murai, Ignacio Alzugaray, Paul H. J. Kelly, Andrew J. Davison

Comments Published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) 2024

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 2136-2143, March 2024

RomniStereo: Recurrent Omnidirectional Stereo Matching

Hualie Jiang, Rui Xu, Minglang Tan, Wenjie Jiang

Comments accepted by IEEE RA-L, https://github.com/HalleyJiang/RomniStereo

TraKDis: A Transformer-based Knowledge Distillation Approach for Visual Reinforcement Learning with Application to Cloth Manipulation

Wei Chen, Nicolas Rojas

Comments Accepted for IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters in January 2024

Forward Kinematics of Object Transporting by a Multi-Robot System with a Deformable Sheet

Jiawei Hu, Wenhang Liu, Jingang Yi, Zhenhua Xiong

Comments 8 pages, 6 figures, has been submitted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Multi-Agent Generative Adversarial Interactive Self-Imitation Learning for AUV Formation Control and Obstacle Avoidance

Zheng Fang, Tianhao Chen, Dong Jiang, Zheng Zhang, Guangliang Li

Comments 8pages,10figures,Published to RA-L

G.O.G: A Versatile Gripper-On-Gripper Design for Bimanual Cloth Manipulation with a Single Robotic Arm

Dongmyoung Lee, Wei Chen, Xiaoshuai Chen, Nicolas Rojas

Comments Accepted for IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters in January 2024. Dongmyoung Lee and Wei Chen contributed equally to this research

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2024

A Soft Continuum Robot with Self-Controllable Variable Curvature

Xinran Wang, Qiujie Lu, Dongmyoung Lee, Zhongxue Gan, Nicolas Rojas

Comments Accpeted for IEEE Robotics and Automation letters in January 2024, Imperial's open access research REF 2029 open access policy

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2024

Soft and Rigid Object Grasping With Cross-Structure Hand Using Bilateral Control-Based Imitation Learning

Koki Yamane, Sho Sakaino, Toshiaki Tsuji

Comments 8 pages, 11 figures, Submitted to IEEE RA-L

Journal ref IEEE RA-L, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 1198-1205, 2024

Few-shot Quality-Diversity Optimization

Achkan Salehi, Alexandre Coninx, Stephane Doncieux

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

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 7.2 (2022): 4424-4431

CQLite: Communication-Efficient Multi-Robot Exploration Using Coverage-biased Distributed Q-Learning

Ehsan Latif, Ramviyas Parasuraman

Comments Accepted by RA-L

Measuring Object Rotation via Visuo-Tactile Segmentation

Julio Castaño, Pablo Gil

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 8, no. 8, pp. 4537-4544, Aug. 2023

Panoptic Vision-Language Feature Fields

Haoran Chen, Kenneth Blomqvist, Francesco Milano, Roland Siegwart

Comments This work has been accepted by IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters