Robotics

Authors and titles for cs.RO in Dec 2023

[1]  arXiv:2312.00068 [pdf, other]

Title: GLiDR: Topologically Regularized Graph Generative Network for Sparse LiDAR Point Clouds

Authors: Prashant Kumar, Kshitij Madhav Bhat, Vedang Bhupesh Shenvi Nadkarni, Prem Kalra

Comments: IEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR)

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

[2]  arXiv:2312.00175 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Advances in soft grasping in agriculture

Authors: Ali Leylavi Shoushtari

Comments: Chapter 12 of the book entitled "Advances in agri-food robotics"

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO); Systems and Control (eess.SY)

[3]  arXiv:2312.00215 [pdf, other]

Title: Learning active tactile perception through belief-space control

Authors: Jean-François Tremblay, David Meger, Francois Hogan, Gregory Dudek

Comments: 10 pages + references, 6 figures

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

[4]  arXiv:2312.00262 [pdf, other]

Title: Augmented Kinesthetic Teaching: Enhancing Task Execution Efficiency through Intuitive Human Instructions

Authors: Cheng Tang, Jiaming Zhong, Yue Hu

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO); Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)

[5]  arXiv:2312.00265 [pdf, other]

Title: RoboSync: Efficient Real-Time Operating System for Social Robots with Customizable Behaviour

Authors: Cheng Tang, Yijing Feng, Yue Hu

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO)

[6]  arXiv:2312.00289 [pdf, other]

Title: Robust Generalized Proportional Integral Control for Trajectory Tracking of Soft Actuators in a Pediatric Wearable Assistive Device

Authors: Caio Mucchiani, Zhichao Liu, Ipsita Sahin, Elena Kokkoni, Konstantinos Karydis

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO); Systems and Control (eess.SY)

[7]  arXiv:2312.00314 [pdf, other]

Title: A bilevel optimal motion planning (BOMP) model with application to autonomous parking

Authors: Shenglei Shi, Youlun Xiong, Jiankui Chen, Caihua Xiong

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO)

[8]  arXiv:2312.00344 [pdf, other]

Title: TRC: Trust Region Conditional Value at Risk for Safe Reinforcement Learning

Authors: Dohyeong Kim, Songhwai Oh

Comments: RA-L and ICRA 2022

Journal-ref: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 2621-2628, April 2022

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

[9]  arXiv:2312.00597 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: UAVs and Birds: Enhancing Short-Range Navigation through Budgerigar Flight Studies

Authors: Md. Mahmudur Rahman, Sajid Islam, Showren Chowdhury, Sadia Jahan Zeba, Debajyoti Karmaker

Comments: 26 pages, 10 figures

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

[10]  arXiv:2312.00775 [pdf, other]

Title: Towards Generalizable Zero-Shot Manipulation via Translating Human Interaction Plans

Authors: Homanga Bharadhwaj, Abhinav Gupta, Vikash Kumar, Shubham Tulsiani

Comments: Preprint. Under Review

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[11]  arXiv:2312.00938 [pdf, other]

Title: WATonoBus: An All Weather Autonomous Shuttle

Authors: Neel P. Bhatt, Ruihe Zhang, Minghao Ning, Ahmad Reza Alghooneh, Joseph Sun, Pouya Panahandeh, Ehsan Mohammadbagher, Ted Ecclestone, Ben MacCallum, Ehsan Hashemi, Amir Khajepour

Comments: 12 pages, 12 figures. This work has been submitted to the IEEE for possible publication. Copyright may be transferred without notice, after which this version may no longer be accessible

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

[12]  arXiv:2312.00948 [pdf, other]

Title: A Review of Communicating Robot Learning during Human-Robot Interaction

Authors: Soheil Habibian, Antonio Alvarez Valdivia, Laura H. Blumenschein, Dylan P. Losey

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO)

[13]  arXiv:2312.00951 [pdf, other]

Title: AV4EV: Open-Source Modular Autonomous Electric Vehicle Platform for Making Mobility Research Accessible

Authors: Zhijie Qiao, Mingyan Zhou, Zhijun Zhuang, Tejas Agarwal, Felix Jahncke, Po-Jen Wang, Jason Friedman, Hongyi Lai, Divyanshu Sahu, Tomáš Nagy, Martin Endler, Jason Schlessman, Rahul Mangharam

Comments: 6 pages, 5 figures

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO); Systems and Control (eess.SY)

[14]  arXiv:2312.00962 [pdf, other]

Title: MBot: A Modular Ecosystem for Scalable Robotics Education

Authors: Peter Gaskell, Jana Pavlasek, Tom Gao, Abhishek Narula, Stanley Lewis, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO)

[15]  arXiv:2312.01015 [pdf, other]

Title: Aggressive Trajectory Tracking for Nano Quadrotors Using Embedded Nonlinear Model Predictive Control

Authors: Muhammad Kazim, Hyunjae Sim, Gihun Shin, Hwancheol Hwang, Kwang-Ki K. Kim

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO)

[16]  arXiv:2312.01054 [pdf, other]

Title: Exploring and Improving the Spatial Reasoning Abilities of Large Language Models

Authors: Manasi Sharma

Comments: Published in NeurIPS 2023 Workshop on Instruction Tuning and Instruction Following

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

[17]  arXiv:2312.01059 [pdf, other]

Title: Swarm-GPT: Combining Large Language Models with Safe Motion Planning for Robot Choreography Design

Authors: Aoran Jiao, Tanmay P. Patel, Sanjmi Khurana, Anna-Mariya Korol, Lukas Brunke, Vivek K. Adajania, Utku Culha, Siqi Zhou, Angela P. Schoellig

Comments: 10 pages, 9 figures

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO)

[18]  arXiv:2312.01130 [pdf, other]

Title: STREAM: Software Tool for Routing Efficiently Advanced Macrofluidics

Authors: Lehong Wang, Savita V. Kendre, Haotian Liu, Markus P. Nemitz

Comments: 6 pages, 6 figures, ICRA 2024

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO)

[19]  arXiv:2312.01131 [pdf, other]

Title: FDM Printing: a Fabrication Method for Fluidic Soft Circuits?

Authors: Savita V. Kendre, Lehong Wang, Ethan Wilke, Nicholas Pacheco, Loris Fichera, Markus P. Nemitz

Comments: 6 pages, 8 figures, IEEE RoboSoft 2023

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO)

[20]  arXiv:2312.01135 [pdf, other]

Title: Vision-based FDM Printing for Fabricating Airtight Soft Actuators

Authors: Yijia Wu, Zilin Dai, Haotian Liu, Lehong Wang, Markus P. Nemitz

Comments: 6 pages, 7 figures, Accepted at IEEE RoboSoft conference 2024, San Diego CA

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO)

[21]  arXiv:2312.01183 [pdf, other]

Title: Comprehensive Robotic Cholecystectomy Dataset (CRCD): Integrating Kinematics, Pedal Signals, and Endoscopic Videos

Authors: Ki-Hwan Oh, Leonardo Borgioli, Alberto Mangano, Valentina Valle, Marco Di Pangrazio, Francesco Toti, Gioia Pozza, Luciano Ambrosini, Alvaro Ducas, Milos Zefran, Liaohai Chen, Pier Cristoforo Giulianotti

Comments: 6 pages, 8 figures, 5 tables. Accepted for presentation at the 2024 International Symposium on Medical Robotics

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO)

[22]  arXiv:2312.01214 [pdf, ps, other]

Title: Model-Based Sensor Diagnostics for Robotic Manipulators

Authors: Astha Kukreja

Comments: 7 pages, 6 figures

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO); Systems and Control (eess.SY)

[23]  arXiv:2312.01236 [pdf, other]

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

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

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

[24]  arXiv:2312.01249 [pdf, other]

Title: A Multifidelity Sim-to-Real Pipeline for Verifiable and Compositional Reinforcement Learning

Authors: Cyrus Neary, Christian Ellis, Aryaman Singh Samyal, Craig Lennon, Ufuk Topcu

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Systems and Control (eess.SY)

[25]  arXiv:2312.01307 [pdf, other]

Title: SAGE: Bridging Semantic and Actionable Parts for GEneralizable Manipulation of Articulated Objects

Authors: Haoran Geng, Songlin Wei, Congyue Deng, Bokui Shen, He Wang, Leonidas Guibas

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