IEEE T-RO

Communication- and Computation-Efficient Distributed Submodular Optimization in Robot Mesh Networks

Zirui Xu, Sandilya Sai Garimella, Vasileios Tzoumas

机构 * Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan（密歇根大学航空航天工程系） ； Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines, Georgia Institute of Technology（佐治亚理工学院机器人与智能机器研究所） ； Department of Robotics, University of Michigan（密歇根大学机器人学系） 纠错

Comments Accepted to IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Autonomous Flights inside Narrow Tunnels

Luqi Wang, Yan Ning, Hongming Chen, Peize Liu, Yang Xu, Hao Xu, Ximin Lyu, Shaojie Shen

机构 * Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology（电子与计算机工程系，香港科学与技术大学） ； School of Intelligent Systems Engineering, SunYat-sen University（智能系统工程学院，中山大学） ； Institute of Unmanned Systems, Beihang University（无人系统研究院，北航大学） 纠错

Comments 21 pages, 27 figures, accepted by IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO)

Koopman Operators in Robot Learning

Lu Shi, Masih Haseli, Giorgos Mamakoukas, Daniel Bruder, Ian Abraham, Todd Murphey, Jorge Cortes, Konstantinos Karydis

Comments Submitted to TRO

Goal-conditioned dual-action imitation learning for dexterous dual-arm robot manipulation

Heecheol Kim, Yoshiyuki Ohmura, Yasuo Kuniyoshi

Comments 19 pages, published in Transactions on Robotics (T-RO)

OPA-Pack: Object-Property-Aware Robotic Bin Packing

Jia-Hui Pan, Yeok Tatt Cheah, Zhengzhe Liu, Ka-Hei Hui, Xiaojie Gao, Pheng-Ann Heng, Yun-Hui Liu, Chi-Wing Fu

机构 * Department of Computer Science and Engineering, the Chinese University of Hong Kong（计算机科学与工程系，香港中文大学） ； Hong Kong Centre for Logistics Robotics（香港物流机器人中心） ； School of Data Science, Lingnan University（数据科学学院，岭南大学） ； Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, the Chinese University of Hong Kong（机械与自动化工程系，香港中文大学） 纠错

Comments Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Robotics (TRO) on Feb. 10, 2025

DYNUS: Uncertainty-aware Trajectory Planner in Dynamic Unknown Environments

Kota Kondo, Mason Peterson, Nicholas Rober, Juan Rached Viso, Lucas Jia, Jialin Chen, Harvey Merton, Jonathan P. How

Comments 20 pages, 30 figures, Under review at IEEE Transactions on Robotics

FALCON: Fast Autonomous Aerial Exploration using Coverage Path Guidance

Yichen Zhang, Xinyi Chen, Chen Feng, Boyu Zhou, Shaojie Shen

Comments Published in IEEE T-RO. Open source link: https://github.com/HKUST-Aerial-Robotics/FALCON

High-order regularization dealing with ill-conditioned robot localization problems

Xinghua Liu, Ming Cao

机构 * Engineering and Technology Institute (ENTEG), the University of Groningen（工程与技术研究所（ENTEG）、格罗宁根大学） 纠错

Comments This paper has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Robotics and the final version is available on IEEE Xplore

Feelbert: A Feedback Linearization-based Embedded Real-Time Quadrupedal Locomotion Framework

Aristide Emanuele Casucci, Federico Nesti, Mauro Marinoni, Giorgio Buttazzo

机构 * Department of Excellence on Robotics and AI, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies（机器人与人工智能卓越部门，圣安娜高级研究学校） 纠错

Comments Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Robotics

RoTipBot: Robotic Handling of Thin and Flexible Objects using Rotatable Tactile Sensors

Jiaqi Jiang, Xuyang Zhang, Daniel Fernandes Gomes, Thanh-Toan Do, Shan Luo

机构 * School of Aerospace Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology（北京理工大学航天工程学院） ； Department of Engineering, King’s College London（伦敦国王学院工程系） ； Department of Data Science and AI, Monash University（墨尔本大学数据科学与人工智能系） 纠错

Comments 18 pages, 19 figures. Accepted by T-RO

SceneFactory: A Workflow-centric and Unified Framework for Incremental Scene Modeling

Yijun Yuan, Michael Bleier, Andreas Nüchter

Comments Accepted to IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO). For project page and code, please find https://jarrome.github.io/SceneFactory/

Generalized Multi-Speed Dubins Motion Model

James P. Wilson, Shalabh Gupta, Thomas A. Wettergren

Comments 18 pages

Journal ref IEEE Transactions on Robotics (2025)

CODEI: Resource-Efficient Task-Driven Co-Design of Perception and Decision Making for Mobile Robots Applied to Autonomous Vehicles

Dejan Milojevic, Gioele Zardini, Miriam Elser, Andrea Censi, Emilio Frazzoli

Comments 20 pages, 33 images, IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Journal ref 10.1109/TRO.2025.3552347

AVOCADO: Adaptive Optimal Collision Avoidance driven by Opinion

Diego Martinez-Baselga, Eduardo Sebastián, Eduardo Montijano, Luis Riazuelo, Carlos Sagüés, Luis Montano

Comments This paper is published at IEEE Transactions on Robotics under DOI 10.1109/TRO.2025.3552350

Continuous-Time State Estimation Methods in Robotics: A Survey

William Talbot, Julian Nubert, Turcan Tuna, Cesar Cadena, Frederike Dümbgen, Jesus Tordesillas, Timothy D. Barfoot, Marco Hutter

Comments Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO)

SLIM: Scalable and Lightweight LiDAR Mapping in Urban Environments

Zehuan Yu, Zhijian Qiao, Wenyi Liu, Huan Yin, Shaojie Shen

Comments Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Robotics. Video: https://youtu.be/8HQnYMf_BWI Code: https://github.com/HKUST-Aerial-Robotics/SLIM

Shear-based Grasp Control for Multi-fingered Underactuated Tactile Robotic Hands

Christopher J. Ford, Haoran Li, Manuel G. Catalano, Matteo Bianchi, Efi Psomopoulou, Nathan F. Lepora

Comments 16 pages. 10 figures. Accepted in IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Special Section on Tactile Robotics

Applications of Spiking Neural Networks in Visual Place Recognition

Somayeh Hussaini, Michael Milford, Tobias Fischer

Comments 20 pages, 10 figures, IEEE Transactions on Robotics (TRO)

Journal ref IEEE Transactions on Robotics 41 (2025) 518-537

Strategic Decision-Making in Multi-Agent Domains: A Weighted Constrained Potential Dynamic Game Approach

Maulik Bhatt, Yixuan Jia, Negar Mehr

Comments in IEEE Transactions on Robotics 2025

Modeling, Embedded Control and Design of Soft Robots using a Learned Condensed FEM Model

Etienne Ménager, Tanguy Navez, Paul Chaillou, Olivier Goury, Alexandre Kruszewski, Christian Duriez

Comments IEEE Transactions on Robotics, In press

CoverLib: Classifiers-equipped Experience Library by Iterative Problem Distribution Coverage Maximization for Domain-tuned Motion Planning

Hirokazu Ishida, Naoki Hiraoka, Kei Okada, Masayuki Inaba

Comments Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Robotics

SICNav: Safe and Interactive Crowd Navigation using Model Predictive Control and Bilevel Optimization

Sepehr Samavi, James R. Han, Florian Shkurti, Angela P. Schoellig

Comments Published in the IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO)

Journal ref Published 22 October 2024

PRO-MIND: Proximity and Reactivity Optimisation of robot Motion to tune safety limits, human stress, and productivity in INDustrial settings

Marta Lagomarsino, Marta Lorenzini, Elena De Momi, Arash Ajoudani

Comments 17 pages, 15 figures

Journal ref IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2025

General Place Recognition Survey: Towards Real-World Autonomy

Peng Yin, Jianhao Jiao, Shiqi Zhao, Lingyun Xu, Guoquan Huang, Howie Choset, Sebastian Scherer, Jianda Han

Comments 20 pages, 12 figures, accepted by IEEE Transactions on Robotics as Survey Paper

Environment-Centric Learning Approach for Gait Synthesis in Terrestrial Soft Robots

Caitlin Freeman, Arun Niddish Mahendran, Vishesh Vikas

Comments Accepted by the IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO) (19 pages, 18 figures, 9 tables). Accompanying video (multimedia attachment) can be accessed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujxK8EWahjg

Impact of Object Weight in Handovers: Inspiring Robotic Grip Release and Motion from Human Handovers

Parag Khanna, Mårten Björkman, Christian Smith

Comments In Submission at IEEE-IEEE Transactions on Robotics. Changes: Corrected typos; Added 2 references for object weight impact on handovers; added Figures 20, 21, and 22 in Results in Section VI for further comparative analysis

Night-Voyager: Consistent and Efficient Nocturnal Vision-Aided State Estimation in Object Maps

Tianxiao Gao, Mingle Zhao, Chengzhong Xu, Hui Kong

Comments IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), 2025

CURE: Simulation-Augmented Auto-Tuning in Robotics

Md Abir Hossen, Sonam Kharade, Jason M. O'Kane, Bradley Schmerl, David Garlan, Pooyan Jamshidi

Comments Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), 2025

The Geometry of Optimal Gait Families for Steering Kinematic Locomoting Systems

Jinwoo Choi, Siming Deng, Nathan Justus, Noah J. Cowan, Ross L. Hatton

Comments 17 pages, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Primitive-Swarm: An Ultra-lightweight and Scalable Planner for Large-scale Aerial Swarms

Jialiang Hou, Xin Zhou, Neng Pan, Ang Li, Yuxiang Guan, Chao Xu, Zhongxue Gan, Fei Gao

Comments Accepted by IEEE Transactions on Robotics