Robotics

Authors and titles for cs.RO in Nov 2023

[1]  arXiv:2311.00063 [pdf, other]

Title: Safe multi-agent motion planning under uncertainty for drones using filtered reinforcement learning

Authors: Sleiman Safaoui, Abraham P. Vinod, Ankush Chakrabarty, Rien Quirynen, Nobuyuki Yoshikawa, Stefano Di Cairano

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Multiagent Systems (cs.MA); Systems and Control (eess.SY)

[2]  arXiv:2311.00112 [pdf, other]

Title: Hierarchical Optimization-based Control for Whole-body Loco-manipulation of Heavy Objects

Authors: Alberto Rigo, Muqun Hu, Satyandra K. Gupta, Quan Nguyen

Comments: 7 pages, 7 figures

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO)

[3]  arXiv:2311.00153 [pdf, other]

Title: Towards A Natural Language Interface for Flexible Multi-Agent Task Assignment

Authors: Jake Brawer, Kayleigh Bishop, Bradley Hayes, Alessandro Roncone

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO)

[4]  arXiv:2311.00192 [pdf, other]

Title: Large-Scale Multi-Robot Assembly Planning for Autonomous Manufacturing

Authors: Kyle Brown, Dylan M. Asmar, Mac Schwager, Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Comments: Repository: this https URL Under review

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)

[5]  arXiv:2311.00197 [pdf, other]

Title: Design, Modeling, and Control of a Low-Cost and Rapid Response Soft-Growing Manipulator for Orchard Operations

Authors: Ryan Dorosh, Justin Allen, Zixuan He, Christopher Ninatanta, Jack Coleman, Jack Spieker, Ethan Tuck, Jordan Kurtz, Qin Zhang, Matthew D. Whiting, Jiecai Luo, Manoj Karkee, Ming Luo

Comments: International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2023

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO)

[6]  arXiv:2311.00232 [pdf, other]

Title: Mechanically-Inflatable Bio-Inspired Locomotion for Robotic Pipeline Inspection

Authors: Mostafa A. Atalla, Fabian Trauzettel, Sebastiaan P. van Gelder, Paul Breedveld, Michaël Wiertlewski, Aimée Sakes

Comments: Accepted paper for RoboSoft 2024

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO)

[7]  arXiv:2311.00252 [pdf, other]

Title: Active Neural Topological Mapping for Multi-Agent Exploration

Authors: Xinyi Yang, Yuxiang Yang, Chao Yu, Jiayu Chen, Jingchen Yu, Haibing Ren, Huazhong Yang, Yu Wang

Comments: Accepted by Robotics and Automation Letters

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)

[8]  arXiv:2311.00276 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: LiDAR-based SLAM for robotic mapping: state of the art and new frontiers

Authors: Xiangdi Yue, Yihuan Zhang, Miaolei He

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO)

[9]  arXiv:2311.00280 [pdf, other]

Title: RF-Enhanced Road Infrastructure for Intelligent Transportation

Authors: Dajiang Suo, Heyi Li, Rahul Bhattacharyya, Zijin Wang, Shengxuan Ding, Ou Zheng, Daniel Valderas, Joan Melià-Seguí, Mohamed Abdel-Aty, Sanjay E. Sarma

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO)

[10]  arXiv:2311.00313 [pdf, other]

Title: Gaze-based Learning from Demonstration In Surgical Robotics

Authors: A.E. Abdelaal, S.N. Zaman, P.Y Chen, T. Suzuki, J. Ingleton

Comments: 45 pages, Lots of Figures

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO)

[11]  arXiv:2311.00390 [pdf, other]

Title: A Modular Pneumatic Soft Gripper Design for Aerial Grasping and Landing

Authors: Hiu Ching Cheung, Ching-Wei Chang, Bailun Jiang, Chih-Yung Wen, Henry K. Chu

Comments: 7 pages, 13 figures, accepted by IEEE RoboSoft 2024

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO)

[12]  arXiv:2311.00626 [pdf, other]

Title: nvblox: GPU-Accelerated Incremental Signed Distance Field Mapping

Authors: Alexander Millane, Helen Oleynikova, Emilie Wirbel, Remo Steiner, Vikram Ramasamy, David Tingdahl, Roland Siegwart

Comments: Accepted to ICRA 2024

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO)

[13]  arXiv:2311.00754 [pdf, other]

Title: Learning to Design and Use Tools for Robotic Manipulation

Authors: Ziang Liu, Stephen Tian, Michelle Guo, C. Karen Liu, Jiajun Wu

Comments: First two authors contributed equally. Accepted at CoRL 2023

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[14]  arXiv:2311.00769 [pdf, other]

Title: An Integrated Approach to Aerial Grasping: Combining a Bistable Gripper with Adaptive Control

Authors: Rishabh Dev Yadav, Brycen Jones, Saksham Gupta, Amitabh Sharma, Jiefeng Sun, Jianguo Zhao, Spandan Roy

Comments: 10 pages, 14 figures

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO)

[15]  arXiv:2311.00785 [pdf, other]

Title: Exploring the Cost of Interruptions in Human-Robot Teaming

Authors: Swathi Mannem, William Macke, Peter Stone, Reuth Mirsky

Comments: Preprint of a paper accepted for publication in Humanoids 2023 (this https URL)

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO)

[16]  arXiv:2311.00802 [pdf, other]

Title: Neural Field Dynamics Model for Granular Object Piles Manipulation

Authors: Shangjie Xue, Shuo Cheng, Pujith Kachana, Danfei Xu

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[17]  arXiv:2311.00815 [pdf, other]

Title: PIAug -- Physics Informed Augmentation for Learning Vehicle Dynamics for Off-Road Navigation

Authors: Parv Maheshwari, Wenshan Wang, Samuel Triest, Matthew Sivaprakasam, Shubhra Aich, John G. Rogers III, Jason M. Gregory, Sebastian Scherer

Comments: Under Review at ICRA 2024

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO)

[18]  arXiv:2311.00837 [pdf, other]

Title: Constant-time Motion Planning with Anytime Refinement for Manipulation

Authors: Itamar Mishani, Hayden Feddock, Maxim Likhachev

Comments: Under review for publication at the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2024). Copyright may be transferred without notice, after which this version may no longer be accessible

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)

[19]  arXiv:2311.00853 [pdf, other]

Title: An efficient tangent based topologically distinctive path finding for grid maps

Authors: Zhuo Yao, Wei Wang

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO)

[20]  arXiv:2311.00899 [pdf, other]

Title: RoboVQA: Multimodal Long-Horizon Reasoning for Robotics

Authors: Pierre Sermanet, Tianli Ding, Jeffrey Zhao, Fei Xia, Debidatta Dwibedi, Keerthana Gopalakrishnan, Christine Chan, Gabriel Dulac-Arnold, Sharath Maddineni, Nikhil J Joshi, Pete Florence, Wei Han, Robert Baruch, Yao Lu, Suvir Mirchandani, Peng Xu, Pannag Sanketi, Karol Hausman, Izhak Shafran, Brian Ichter, Yuan Cao

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO)

[21]  arXiv:2311.00924 [pdf, other]

Title: The Power of the Senses: Generalizable Manipulation from Vision and Touch through Masked Multimodal Learning

Authors: Carmelo Sferrazza, Younggyo Seo, Hao Liu, Youngwoon Lee, Pieter Abbeel

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)

[22]  arXiv:2311.00926 [pdf, other]

Title: M2T2: Multi-Task Masked Transformer for Object-centric Pick and Place

Authors: Wentao Yuan, Adithyavairavan Murali, Arsalan Mousavian, Dieter Fox

Comments: 12 pages, 8 figures, accepted by CoRL 2023

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)

[23]  arXiv:2311.00928 [pdf, other]

Title: Quatro++: Robust Global Registration Exploiting Ground Segmentation for Loop Closing in LiDAR SLAM

Authors: Hyungtae Lim, Beomsoo Kim, Daebeom Kim, Eungchang Mason Lee, Hyun Myung

Comments: 26 pages, 23 figures

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO)

[24]  arXiv:2311.00952 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Workspace optimization of 1T2R parallel manipulators with a dimensionally homogeneous constraint-embedded Jacobian

Authors: Hassen Nigatu, Doik Kim

Journal-ref: \cite{Nigatu2023}

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO)

[25]  arXiv:2311.00967 [pdf, other]

Title: Vision-Language Interpreter for Robot Task Planning

Authors: Keisuke Shirai, Cristian C. Beltran-Hernandez, Masashi Hamaya, Atsushi Hashimoto, Shohei Tanaka, Kento Kawaharazuka, Kazutoshi Tanaka, Yoshitaka Ushiku, Shinsuke Mori

Comments: ICRA 2024

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL)