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DiffCo: Auto-Differentiable Proxy Collision Detection with Multi-class Labels for Safety-Aware Trajectory Optimization

Yuheng Zhi, Nikhil Das, Michael Yip

Comments This work has been accepted for publication at IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Safe Active Dynamics Learning and Control: A Sequential Exploration-Exploitation Framework

Thomas Lew, Apoorva Sharma, James Harrison, Andrew Bylard, Marco Pavone

Comments Accepted as a Regular Paper to the IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO)

LCDNet: Deep Loop Closure Detection and Point Cloud Registration for LiDAR SLAM

Daniele Cattaneo, Matteo Vaghi, Abhinav Valada

Comments Accepted to IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), 2022

Density control of large-scale particles swarm through PDE-constrained optimization

Carlo Sinigaglia, Andrea Manzoni, Francesco Braghin

Comments 19 pages, 12 figures, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Unsupervised Online Learning for Robotic Interestingness with Visual Memory

Chen Wang, Yuheng Qiu, Wenshan Wang, Yafei Hu, Seungchan Kim, Sebastian Scherer

Comments Accepted to The IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO). A substantial extension of the ECCV 2020 paper arXiv:2005.08829

Kimera-Multi: Robust, Distributed, Dense Metric-Semantic SLAM for Multi-Robot Systems

Yulun Tian, Yun Chang, Fernando Herrera Arias, Carlos Nieto-Granda, Jonathan P. How, Luca Carlone

Comments Accepted by IEEE Transactions on Robotics (18 pages, 15 figures)

Design and Control of a Midair-Reconfigurable Quadcopter using Unactuated Hinges

Nathan Bucki, Jerry Tang, Mark W. Mueller

Comments Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO) as an evolved paper (first revision)

Policy Search for Model Predictive Control with Application to Agile Drone Flight

Yunlong Song, Davide Scaramuzza

Comments The paper has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), 2021

Learn from Human Teams: a Probabilistic Solution to Real-Time Collaborative Robot Handling with Dynamic Gesture Commands

Rui Chen, Alvin Shek, Changliu Liu

Comments Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Robust Multiple-Path Orienteering Problem: Securing Against Adversarial Attacks

Guangyao Shi, Lifeng Zhou, Pratap Tokekar

Comments submitted to TRO

EfficientLPS: Efficient LiDAR Panoptic Segmentation

Kshitij Sirohi, Rohit Mohan, Daniel Büscher, Wolfram Burgard, Abhinav Valada

Comments Ranked #1 on SemanticKITTI and nuScenes panoptic segmentation benchmarks

Journal ref IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), 2021

Self-Supervised Visual Terrain Classification from Unsupervised Acoustic Feature Learning

Jannik Zürn, Wolfram Burgard, Abhinav Valada

Comments 14 pages, 12 figures

Journal ref IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 466-481, 2021

Graph-based Thermal-Inertial SLAM with Probabilistic Neural Networks

Muhamad Risqi U. Saputra, Chris Xiaoxuan Lu, Pedro P. B. de Gusmao, Bing Wang, Andrew Markham, Niki Trigoni

Comments Accepted to IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Singularity-free Guiding Vector Field for Robot Navigation

Weijia Yao, Hector Garcia de Marina, Bohuan Lin, Ming Cao

Comments Accepted for publication in IEEE Trransactions on Robotics (T-RO)

Stabilization of Complementarity Systems via Contact-Aware Controllers

Alp Aydinoglu, Philip Sieg, Victor M. Preciado, Michael Posa

Comments The final preprint, accepted to T-RO. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1909.11221

Event-based Stereo Visual Odometry

Yi Zhou, Guillermo Gallego, Shaojie Shen

Comments 18 pages, 18 figures, 7 tables

Journal ref IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), Vol. 37, No. 5, pp. 1433-1450, Oct. 2021

Autonomous Cave Surveying with an Aerial Robot

Wennie Tabib, Kshitij Goel, John Yao, Curtis Boirum, Nathan Michael

Comments 17 pages, 14 figures; accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Robotics (TRO 2021) and adds additional experimental results

The Geometry of Optimal Gaits for Inertia-dominated Kinematic Systems

Ross L. Hatton, Zachary Brock, Shuoqi Chen, Howie Choset, Hossein Faraji, Ruijie Fu, Nathan Justus, Suresh Ramasamy

Comments 20 Pages, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Quori: A Community-Informed Design of a Socially Interactive Humanoid Robot

Andrew Specian, Ross Mead, Simon Kim, Maja Matarić, Mark Yim

Comments 20 pages. 21 figures. This was accepted to and will be published to the IEEE Transactions on Robotics Journal

FASTER: Fast and Safe Trajectory Planner for Navigation in Unknown Environments

Jesus Tordesillas, Brett T. Lopez, Michael Everett, Jonathan P. How

Comments This paper has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Robotics. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1903.03558

Resilient and consistent multirobot cooperative localization with covariance intersection

Tsang-Kai Chang, Kenny Chen, Ankur Mehta

Comments 12 pages, 8 figures, to be published in IEEE Transactions on Robotics

EPSILON: An Efficient Planning System for Automated Vehicles in Highly Interactive Environments

Wenchao Ding, Lu Zhang, Jing Chen, Shaojie Shen

Comments Accepted by the IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO)

Distributed Control of Truss Robots Using Consensus Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers

Nathan S. Usevitch, Trevor Halsted, Zachary M. Hammond, Allison M. Okamura, Mac Schwager

Comments Submitted to IEEE T-RO

Resilient Monitoring in Heterogeneous Multi-robot Systems through Network Reconfiguration

Ragesh K. Ramachandran, Pietro Pierpaoli, Magnus Egerstedt, Gaurav S. Sukhatme

Comments 13 pages, 7 figures, Conditionally accepted to IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO)

Goal-Driven Robotic Pushing Using Tactile and Proprioceptive Feedback

John Lloyd, Nathan F. Lepora

Comments Accepted in IEEE Transactions on Robotics. A video demonstrating the approach can be found at https://youtu.be/6fAlHWfLP7I

Developing efficient transfer learning strategies for robust scene recognition in mobile robotics using pre-trained convolutional neural networks

Hermann Baumgartl, Ricardo Buettner

Comments 18 pages, 1 figures, 10 tables. Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO)

Multi-Agent Belief Sharing through Autonomous Hierarchical Multi-Level Clustering

Mirco Theile, Jonathan Ponniah, Or Dantsker, Marco Caccamo

Comments Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Robotics, article extends on https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2021-0656

Neural-Swarm2: Planning and Control of Heterogeneous Multirotor Swarms using Learned Interactions

Guanya Shi, Wolfgang Hönig, Xichen Shi, Yisong Yue, Soon-Jo Chung

Comments Accepted by IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), 2021. Video is available at https://youtu.be/Y02juH6BDxo

Autonomous Navigation in Unknown Environments with Sparse Bayesian Kernel-based Occupancy Mapping

Thai Duong, Michael Yip, Nikolay Atanasov

Comments Submitted to TRO

A Topological Approach to Gait Generation for Biped Robots

Nelson Rosa, Kevin M. Lynch

Comments To be published in the IEEE Transactions on Robotics. This version has several updated sections and figures. For supplementary material (video and framework implementation), see https://github.com/nr-codes/BipedalGaitGeneration