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Reachable Space Characterization of Markov Decision Processes with Time Variability

Junhong Xu, Kai Yin, Lantao Liu

Comments 10 pages, 9 figures, 1 table, accepted by RSS 2019

Robust Singular Smoothers For Tracking Using Low-Fidelity Data

Jonathan Jonker, Aleksandr Aravkin, James V. Burke, Gianluigi Pillonetto, Sarah Webster

Comments 9 pages, 9 figures, to be included in Robotics: Science and Systems 2019

PoseRBPF: A Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filter for 6D Object Pose Tracking

Xinke Deng, Arsalan Mousavian, Yu Xiang, Fei Xia, Timothy Bretl, Dieter Fox

Comments Accepted to RSS 2019

OIL: Observational Imitation Learning

Guohao Li, Matthias Müller, Vincent Casser, Neil Smith, Dominik L. Michels, Bernard Ghanem

Comments Accepted at RSS'19. First two authors contributed equally

Contact-Aided Invariant Extended Kalman Filtering for Legged Robot State Estimation

Ross Hartley, Maani Ghaffari Jadidi, Jessy W. Grizzle, Ryan M. Eustice

Comments Published in the proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems 2018

End-to-End Robotic Reinforcement Learning without Reward Engineering

Avi Singh, Larry Yang, Kristian Hartikainen, Chelsea Finn, Sergey Levine

Comments Accepted to RSS 2019. 14 pages and 13 figures including references and appendix. Website: https://sites.google.com/view/reward-learning-rl/home

Efficient Algorithms for Optimal Perimeter Guarding

Si Wei Feng, Shuai D. Han, Kai Gao, Jingjin Yu

Journal ref 2019 Robotics: Science and Systems

Learning Robotic Manipulation through Visual Planning and Acting

Angelina Wang, Thanard Kurutach, Kara Liu, Pieter Abbeel, Aviv Tamar

Comments RSS 2019. Website at https://sites.google.com/berkeley.edu/vpa/home

Simultaneously Learning Vision and Feature-based Control Policies for Real-world Ball-in-a-Cup

Devin Schwab, Tobias Springenberg, Murilo F. Martins, Thomas Lampe, Michael Neunert, Abbas Abdolmaleki, Tim Hertweck, Roland Hafner, Francesco Nori, Martin Riedmiller

Comments Videos can be found at https://sites.google.com/view/rss-2019-sawyer-bic/

Contact-Implicit Optimization of Locomotion Trajectories for a Quadrupedal Microrobot

Neel Doshi, Kaushik Jayaram, Benjamin Goldberg, Zachary Manchester, Robert J. Wood, Scott Kuindersma

Comments RSS 2018

Localization Algorithm with Circular Representation in 2D and its Similarity to Mammalian Brains

Tsang-Kai Chang, Shengkang Chen, Ankur Mehta

Comments 8 pages, 2 figures, submitted to the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) journal with the option for presentation at RSS

Enabling Robots to Communicate their Objectives

Sandy H. Huang, David Held, Pieter Abbeel, Anca D. Dragan

Comments RSS 2017

Online User Assessment for Minimal Intervention During Task-Based Robotic Assistance

Aleksandra Kalinowska, Kathleen Fitzsimons, Julius Dewald, Todd D Murphey

Comments 10 pages

Journal ref Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2018

Data-Driven Measurement Models for Active Localization in Sparse Environments

Ian Abraham, Anastasia Mavrommati, Todd D. Murphey

Comments 10 pages

Journal ref Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2018

Learning Models for Shared Control of Human-Machine Systems with Unknown Dynamics

Alexander Broad, Todd Murphey, Brenna Argall

Comments Robotics: Science and Systems Proceedings, 2017

EV-FlowNet: Self-Supervised Optical Flow Estimation for Event-based Cameras

Alex Zihao Zhu, Liangzhe Yuan, Kenneth Chaney, Kostas Daniilidis

Comments 9 pages, 5 figures, 1 table. Accompanying video: https://youtu.be/eMHZBSoq0sE. Dataset: https://daniilidis-group.github.io/mvsec/, Robotics: Science and Systems 2018

Novel Compliant omnicrawler-wheel transforming module

Akash Singh, Vinay Rodrigues, Enna Sachdeva, Sai Hanisha, Madhava Krishna

Comments Robotics Science and Systems, Design and Controls of legged robots Workshop,CMU

Learning Complex Dexterous Manipulation with Deep Reinforcement Learning and Demonstrations

Aravind Rajeswaran, Vikash Kumar, Abhishek Gupta, Giulia Vezzani, John Schulman, Emanuel Todorov, Sergey Levine

Comments Accepted for presentation at Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2018. Project page: https://sites.google.com/view/deeprl-dexterous-manipulation

Learning Task-Oriented Grasping for Tool Manipulation from Simulated Self-Supervision

Kuan Fang, Yuke Zhu, Animesh Garg, Andrey Kurenkov, Viraj Mehta, Li Fei-Fei, Silvio Savarese

Comments RSS 2018

Accurately and Efficiently Interpreting Human-Robot Instructions of Varying Granularities

Dilip Arumugam, Siddharth Karamcheti, Nakul Gopalan, Lawson L. S. Wong, Stefanie Tellex

Comments Updated with final version - Published as Conference Paper in Robotics: Science and Systems 2017

Passive Static Equilibrium with Frictional Contacts and Application to Grasp Stability Analysis

Maximilian Haas-Heger, Christos Papadimitriou, Mihalis Yannakakis, Garud Iyengar, Matei Ciocarlie

Comments Robotics: Science and Systems June 26-30, 2018 (9 pages, 7 figures)

Simplifying Reward Design through Divide-and-Conquer

Ellis Ratner, Dylan Hadfield-Menell, Anca D. Dragan

Comments Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2018

Near-Optimal Budgeted Data Exchange for Distributed Loop Closure Detection

Yulun Tian, Kasra Khosoussi, Matthew Giamou, Jonathan P. How, Jonathan Kelly

Comments RSS 2018 Extended Version

Probabilistically Safe Robot Planning with Confidence-Based Human Predictions

Jaime F. Fisac, Andrea Bajcsy, Sylvia L. Herbert, David Fridovich-Keil, Steven Wang, Claire J. Tomlin, Anca D. Dragan

Comments Robotics Science and Systems (RSS) 2018

Following High-level Navigation Instructions on a Simulated Quadcopter with Imitation Learning

Valts Blukis, Nataly Brukhim, Andrew Bennett, Ross A. Knepper, Yoav Artzi

Comments To appear in Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2018

Differentiable Particle Filters: End-to-End Learning with Algorithmic Priors

Rico Jonschkowski, Divyam Rastogi, Oliver Brock

Comments Accepted at Robotics: Science and Systems 2018 (http://www.roboticsconference.org)

LoST? Appearance-Invariant Place Recognition for Opposite Viewpoints using Visual Semantics

Sourav Garg, Niko Suenderhauf, Michael Milford

Comments Accepted for Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2018. Source code now available at https://github.com/oravus/lostX

Reinforcement and Imitation Learning for Diverse Visuomotor Skills

Yuke Zhu, Ziyu Wang, Josh Merel, Andrei Rusu, Tom Erez, Serkan Cabi, Saran Tunyasuvunakool, János Kramár, Raia Hadsell, Nando de Freitas, Nicolas Heess

Comments 13 pages, 6 figures, Published in RSS 2018

PoseCNN: A Convolutional Neural Network for 6D Object Pose Estimation in Cluttered Scenes

Yu Xiang, Tanner Schmidt, Venkatraman Narayanan, Dieter Fox

Comments Accepted to RSS 2018

Lightweight Unsupervised Deep Loop Closure

Nate Merrill, Guoquan Huang

Comments Published in Proc. of Robotics: Science and Systems 2018