IEEE T-RO

A New Wave in Robotics: Survey on Recent mmWave Radar Applications in Robotics

Kyle Harlow, Hyesu Jang, Timothy D. Barfoot, Ayoung Kim, Christoffer Heckman

Comments 20 Pages, 7 Figures, 2 Tables, TRO Submission pending

Journal ref IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 40 (2024) 4544-4560

Closed-Loop Magnetic Manipulation for Robotic Transesophageal Echocardiography

Keyu Li, Yangxin Xu, Ziqi Zhao, Ang Li, Max Q. -H. Meng

Comments Accepted by IEEE Transactions on Robotics

A Propagation Perspective on Recursive Forward Dynamics for Systems with Kinematic Loops

Matthew Chignoli, Nicholas Adrian, Sangbae Kim, Patrick M. Wensing

Comments Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Topology-Driven Parallel Trajectory Optimization in Dynamic Environments

Oscar de Groot, Laura Ferranti, Dariu M. Gavrila, Javier Alonso-Mora

Comments Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Multi-Robot Relative Pose Estimation and IMU Preintegration Using Passive UWB Transceivers

Mohammed Ayman Shalaby, Charles Champagne Cossette, Jerome Le Ny, James Richard Forbes

Journal ref in IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 40, pp. 2410-2429, 2024

Toward Globally Optimal State Estimation Using Automatically Tightened Semidefinite Relaxations

Frederike Dümbgen, Connor Holmes, Ben Agro, Timothy D. Barfoot

Comments 20 pages, 22 figures. Version history: v5 (published version T-RO), v4 (conditionally accepted version T-RO), v3 (revised version), v2 (submitted version), v1 (initial version)

Certifiably Correct Range-Aided SLAM

Alan Papalia, Andrew Fishberg, Brendan W. O'Neill, Jonathan P. How, David M. Rosen, John J. Leonard

Comments Accepted to Transactions on Robotics (T-RO)

Visual-Inertial SLAM as Simple as A, B, VINS

Nathaniel Merrill, Guoquan Huang

Comments Submitted to T-RO

Data-Driven Batch Localization and SLAM Using Koopman Linearization

Zi Cong Guo, Frederike Dümbgen, James R. Forbes, Timothy D. Barfoot

Comments Note: the journal version for IEEE T-RO does not include Appendix G

Journal ref IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 40, pp. 3964-3983, 2024

Asynchronous Blob Tracker for Event Cameras

Ziwei Wang, Timothy Molloy, Pieter van Goor, Robert Mahony

Comments 18 pages, 16 figures. The manuscript was accepted on August 7, 2024, by IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Active Learning of Discrete-Time Dynamics for Uncertainty-Aware Model Predictive Control

Alessandro Saviolo, Jonathan Frey, Abhishek Rathod, Moritz Diehl, Giuseppe Loianno

Journal ref IEEE Transactions on Robotics 2023

Deep Generative Models in Robotics: A Survey on Learning from Multimodal Demonstrations

Julen Urain, Ajay Mandlekar, Yilun Du, Mahi Shafiullah, Danfei Xu, Katerina Fragkiadaki, Georgia Chalvatzaki, Jan Peters

Comments 20 pages, 11 figures, submitted to TRO

MMP++: Motion Manifold Primitives with Parametric Curve Models

Yonghyeon Lee

Comments 15 pages. The paper will appear in the IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Journal ref IEEE Transactions on Robotics 2024

Evetac: An Event-based Optical Tactile Sensor for Robotic Manipulation

Niklas Funk, Erik Helmut, Georgia Chalvatzaki, Roberto Calandra, Jan Peters

Comments Accepted at IEEE Transactions On Robotics. Project Website: https://sites.google.com/view/evetac

gatekeeper: Online Safety Verification and Control for Nonlinear Systems in Dynamic Environments

Devansh R Agrawal, Ruichang Chen, Dimitra Panagou

Comments Accepted at IEEE T-RO 2024. Accepted at IROS 2023. 17 pages, 10 figures

MAC: Graph Sparsification by Maximizing Algebraic Connectivity

Kevin Doherty, Alan Papalia, Yewei Huang, David Rosen, Brendan Englot, John Leonard

Comments 17 pages, 5 figures. Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Robotics. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2203.13897

Consensus Complementarity Control for Multi-Contact MPC

Alp Aydinoglu, Adam Wei, Wei-Cheng Huang, Michael Posa

Comments T-RO submission. Continuation of the work: arXiv:2109.07076v2

Influence Vectors Control for Robots Using Cellular-like Binary Actuators

Alexandre Girard, Jean-Sébastien Plante

Journal ref IEEE Transactions on Robotics ( Volume: 30, Issue: 3, June 2014)

Constrained Stein Variational Trajectory Optimization

Thomas Power, Dmitry Berenson

Comments 18 pages, 10 figures, 3 tables

Journal ref IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2024

Appearance-Based Loop Closure Detection for Online Large-Scale and Long-Term Operation

Mathieu Labbé, François Michaud

Comments 12 pages, 11 figures

Journal ref IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 734-745, June 2013

Proprioceptive State Estimation for Amphibious Tactile Sensing

Ning Guo, Xudong Han, Shuqiao Zhong, Zhiyuan Zhou, Jian Lin, Jian S. Dai, Fang Wan, Chaoyang Song

Comments 24 pages, 11 figures, 1 table, Conditionally Accepted for the Special Collection on Tactile Robotics in IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Not Only Rewards But Also Constraints: Applications on Legged Robot Locomotion

Yunho Kim, Hyunsik Oh, Jeonghyun Lee, Jinhyeok Choi, Gwanghyeon Ji, Moonkyu Jung, Donghoon Youm, Jemin Hwangbo

Comments Accepted to IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO) 2024

Dynamic Modeling of Branched Robots using Modular Composition

Frederico Fernandes Afonso Silva, Bruno Vilhena Adorno

Comments 17 pages, 9 figures, 4 tables. Under Review for the IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO)

DiffTune: Auto-Tuning through Auto-Differentiation

Sheng Cheng, Minkyung Kim, Lin Song, Chengyu Yang, Yiquan Jin, Shenlong Wang, Naira Hovakimyan

Comments Minkyung Kim and Lin Song contributed equally to this work. Accepted for publication by IEEE Transactions on Robotics in July 2024

HIPer: A Human-Inspired Scene Perception Model for Multifunctional Mobile Robots

Florenz Graf, Jochen Lindermayr, Birgit Graf, Werner Kraus, Marco F. Huber

Journal ref 2024 IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO)

Autonomous Drone Racing: A Survey

Drew Hanover, Antonio Loquercio, Leonard Bauersfeld, Angel Romero, Robert Penicka, Yunlong Song, Giovanni Cioffi, Elia Kaufmann, Davide Scaramuzza

Comments 26 pages

Journal ref IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), Vol. 40, 2024

Efficient Deep Learning of Robust Policies from MPC using Imitation and Tube-Guided Data Augmentation

Andrea Tagliabue, Jonathan P. How

Comments Accepted for the Transaction on Robotics (T-RO), May 2024

Robust Pivoting Manipulation using Contact Implicit Bilevel Optimization

Yuki Shirai, Devesh K. Jha, Arvind U. Raghunathan

Comments Accepted for IEEE Transactions on Robotics. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2203.11412

Efficient, Responsive, and Robust Hopping on Deformable Terrain

Daniel J. Lynch, Jason L. Pusey, Sean W. Gart, Paul B. Umbanhowar, Kevin M. Lynch

Comments 20 pages, 13 figures, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Robotics

CATNIPS: Collision Avoidance Through Neural Implicit Probabilistic Scenes

Timothy Chen, Preston Culbertson, Mac Schwager

Comments Published in IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Journal ref IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 40, pp. 2712-2728, 2024