IEEE RA-L

NormalFlow: Fast, Robust, and Accurate Contact-based Object 6DoF Pose Tracking with Vision-based Tactile Sensors

Hung-Jui Huang, Michael Kaess, Wenzhen Yuan

Comments 8 pages, published in 2024 RA-L, website link: https://joehjhuang.github.io/normalflow

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters ( Volume: 10, Issue: 1, January 2025)

Point Cloud Structural Similarity-based Underwater Sonar Loop Detection

Donghwi Jung, Andres Pulido, Jane Shin, Seong-Woo Kim

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 3859-3866, April 2025

Visibility-Aware RRT* for Safety-Critical Navigation of Perception-Limited Robots in Unknown Environments

Taekyung Kim, Dimitra Panagou

Comments Accepted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (to be presented at IROS 2025). Our project page can be found at: https://www.taekyung.me/visibility-rrt

Personalized Speech Emotion Recognition in Human-Robot Interaction using Vision Transformers

Ruchik Mishra, Andrew Frye, Madan Mohan Rayguru, Dan O. Popa

Comments This work has been accepted for the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)

Online Temporal Fusion for Vectorized Map Construction in Mapless Autonomous Driving

Jiagang Chen, Liangliang Pan, Shunping Ji, Ji Zhao, Zichao Zhang

Comments 8 pages, 9 figures

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 3948-3955, April 2025

Optimal Design of Continuum Robots with Reachability Constraints

Hyunmin Cheong, Mehran Ebrahimi, Timothy Duggan

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2021

CMP: Cooperative Motion Prediction with Multi-Agent Communication

Zehao Wang, Yuping Wang, Zhuoyuan Wu, Hengbo Ma, Zhaowei Li, Hang Qiu, Jiachen Li

Comments IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters; Project website: https://cmp-cooperative-prediction.github.io/

Predictor-Based Time Delay Control of A Hex-Jet Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

Junning Liang, Haowen Zheng, Yuying Zhang, Yongzhuo Gao, Wei Dong, Ximin Lyu

Comments Accepted by IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 8 pages, 11 figures

Lost & Found: Tracking Changes from Egocentric Observations in 3D Dynamic Scene Graphs

Tjark Behrens, René Zurbrügg, Marc Pollefeys, Zuria Bauer, Hermann Blum

Comments Webpage: https://behretj.github.io/LostAndFound; accepted at IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

CaRtGS: Computational Alignment for Real-Time Gaussian Splatting SLAM

Dapeng Feng, Zhiqiang Chen, Yizhen Yin, Shipeng Zhong, Yuhua Qi, Hongbo Chen

Comments Accepted by IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)

Low Frequency Sampling in Model Predictive Path Integral Control

Bogdan Vlahov, Jason Gibson, David D. Fan, Patrick Spieler, Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi, Evangelos A. Theodorou

Comments Published to RA-L

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 9, no. 5, pp.4543-4550, 2024

A Backbone for Long-Horizon Robot Task Understanding

Xiaoshuai Chen, Wei Chen, Dongmyoung Lee, Yukun Ge, Nicolas Rojas, Petar Kormushev

Comments 8 pages, 8 figures. This work has been published by IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Volume: 10, 2025, 2048 - 2055

Diverse Controllable Diffusion Policy with Signal Temporal Logic

Yue Meng, Chuchu fan

Comments Accepted by IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), October 2024

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 9, no. 10, pp. 8354-8361, Oct. 2024

StableLego: Stability Analysis of Block Stacking Assembly

Ruixuan Liu, Kangle Deng, Ziwei Wang, Changliu Liu

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 9, no. 11, pp. 9383-9390, Nov. 2024

Model-Based Capacitive Touch Sensing in Soft Robotics: Achieving Robust Tactile Interactions for Artistic Applications

Carolina Silva-Plata, Carlos Rosel, Barnabas Gavin Cangan, Hosam Alagi, Björn Hein, Robert K. Katzschmann, Rubén Fernández, Yosra Mojtahedi, Stefan Escaida Navarro

Comments 8 pages, 17 figures. Accepted at IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) 2025

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2025

Interactive incremental learning of generalizable skills with local trajectory modulation

Markus Knauer, Alin Albu-Schäffer, Freek Stulp, João Silvério

Comments Accepted at IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 16 pages, 19 figures, 6 tables. See https://github.com/DLR-RM/interactive-incremental-learning for further information and video

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). Volume: 10, Issue: 4, April 2025, Pages 3398 - 3405

Aerial Gym Simulator: A Framework for Highly Parallelized Simulation of Aerial Robots

Mihir Kulkarni, Welf Rehberg, Kostas Alexis

Comments Accepted for publication in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)

Visuotactile-Based Learning for Insertion with Compliant Hands

Osher Azulay, Dhruv Metha Ramesh, Nimrod Curtis, Avishai Sintov

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2025

Signage-Aware Exploration in Open World using Venue Maps

Chang Chen, Liang Lu, Lei Yang, Yinqiang Zhang, Yizhou Chen, Ruixing Jia, Jia Pan

Comments 8 pages, 8 figures, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2025

CurviTrack: Curvilinear Trajectory Tracking for High-speed Chase of a USV

Parakh M. Gupta, Ondřej Procházka, Tiago Nascimento, Martin Saska

Journal ref in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Feb. 2025

RAMPA: Robotic Augmented Reality for Machine Programming by DemonstrAtion

Fatih Dogangun, Serdar Bahar, Yigit Yildirim, Bora Toprak Temir, Emre Ugur, Mustafa Doga Dogan

Comments This work is the final version submitted to the IEEE RA-L

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2025

Deep Modeling of Non-Gaussian Aleatoric Uncertainty

Aastha Acharya, Caleb Lee, Marissa D'Alonzo, Jared Shamwell, Nisar R. Ahmed, Rebecca Russell

Comments 8 pages, 7 figures

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 660-667, Jan. 2025

ARENA: Adaptive Risk-aware and Energy-efficient NAvigation for Multi-Objective 3D Infrastructure Inspection with a UAV

David-Alexandre Poissant, Alexis Lussier Desbiens, François Ferland, Louis Petit

Comments 8 pages, 7 figures, submitted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)

Robots Have Been Seen and Not Heard: Effects of Consequential Sounds on Human-Perception of Robots

Aimee Allen, Tom Drummond, Dana Kulić

Comments 8 pages, 3 figures - Accepted to be published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL). This paper has a companion paper: arXiv:2502.02051 Copyright 2025 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media

A Real-time Spatio-Temporal Trajectory Planner for Autonomous Vehicles with Semantic Graph Optimization

Shan He, Yalong Ma, Tao Song, Yongzhi Jiang, Xinkai Wu

Comments This work has been accepted for publication in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). The final published version is available in IEEE Xplore (DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2024.3504239)

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 72-79, Jan. 2025

CaRE: Finding Root Causes of Configuration Issues in Highly-Configurable Robots

Md Abir Hossen, Sonam Kharade, Bradley Schmerl, Javier Cámara, Jason M. O'Kane, Ellen C. Czaplinski, Katherine A. Dzurilla, David Garlan, Pooyan Jamshidi

Comments IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2023 (Accepted)

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 8.7 (2023): 4115-4122

Online Friction Coefficient Identification for Legged Robots on Slippery Terrain Using Smoothed Contact Gradients

Hajun Kim, Dongyun Kang, Min-Gyu Kim, Gijeong Kim, Hae-Won Park

Comments 8 pages, IEEE RA-L (2025) accepted

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, April 2025, Volume 10, Issue 4, Pages: 3150-3157

NavRL: Learning Safe Flight in Dynamic Environments

Zhefan Xu, Xinming Han, Haoyu Shen, Hanyu Jin, Kenji Shimada

Comments 8 pages, 9 figures, 3 tables. Experiment video: https://youtu.be/EbeJW8-YlvI. Github Repo: https://github.com/Zhefan-Xu/NavRL

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2025

Fast Shortest Path Polyline Smoothing With $G^1$ Continuity and Bounded Curvature

Patrick Pastorelli, Simone Dagnino, Enrico Saccon, Marco Frego, Luigi Palopoli

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 3182-3189, April 2025

Heuristic Search for Path Finding with Refuelling

Shizhe Zhao, Anushtup Nandy, Howie Choset, Sivakumar Rathinam, Zhongqiang Ren

Comments 8 pages, 6 figures, RA-L 2025 submission, Motion and Path Path Planning, Scheduling and Coordination, Robotics in Under-Resourced Settings