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ReFlow6D: Refraction-Guided Transparent Object 6D Pose Estimation via Intermediate Representation Learning

Hrishikesh Gupta, Stefan Thalhammer, Jean-Baptiste Weibel, Alexander Haberl, Markus Vincze

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 9, no. 11, pp. 9438-9445, Nov. 2024

Adaptive Integral Sliding Mode Control for Attitude Tracking of Underwater Robots With Large Range Pitch Variations in Confined Space

Xiaorui Wang, Zeyu Sha, Feitian Zhang

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2025

Control Pneumatic Soft Bending Actuator with Feedforward Hysteresis Compensation by Pneumatic Physical Reservoir Computing

Junyi Shen, Tetsuro Miyazaki, Kenji Kawashima

Comments 8 pages, 17 figures. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, doi: 10.1109/LRA.2024.3523229

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2025

Learning Semantic Traversability with Egocentric Video and Automated Annotation Strategy

Yunho Kim, Jeong Hyun Lee, Choongin Lee, Juhyeok Mun, Donghoon Youm, Jeongsoo Park, Jemin Hwangbo

Comments Accepted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) 2024, First two authors contributed equally

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (Volume: 9, Issue: 11, November 2024)

Data-Driven Dynamics Modeling of Miniature Robotic Blimps Using Neural ODEs With Parameter Auto-Tuning

Yongjian Zhu, Hao Cheng, Feitian Zhang

Comments 8 pages, 8 figures

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters ( Volume: 9, Issue: 12, December 2024)

Safe-VLN: Collision Avoidance for Vision-and-Language Navigation of Autonomous Robots Operating in Continuous Environments

Lu Yue, Dongliang Zhou, Liang Xie, Feitian Zhang, Ye Yan, Erwei Yin

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2024

Open-Vocabulary Mobile Manipulation Based on Double Relaxed Contrastive Learning with Dense Labeling

Daichi Yashima, Ryosuke Korekata, Komei Sugiura

Comments Accepted for IEEE RA-L 2025

GOPT: Generalizable Online 3D Bin Packing via Transformer-based Deep Reinforcement Learning

Heng Xiong, Changrong Guo, Jian Peng, Kai Ding, Wenjie Chen, Xuchong Qiu, Long Bai, Jianfeng Xu

Comments 8 pages, 6 figures. This paper has been accepted by IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

PIETRA: Physics-Informed Evidential Learning for Traversing Out-of-Distribution Terrain

Xiaoyi Cai, James Queeney, Tong Xu, Aniket Datar, Chenhui Pan, Max Miller, Ashton Flather, Philip R. Osteen, Nicholas Roy, Xuesu Xiao, Jonathan P. How

Comments To appear in RA-L. Video: https://youtu.be/OTnNZ96oJRk

GR-MG: Leveraging Partially Annotated Data via Multi-Modal Goal-Conditioned Policy

Peiyan Li, Hongtao Wu, Yan Huang, Chilam Cheang, Liang Wang, Tao Kong

Comments 8 pages, 5 figures, RA-L

Long-Term Upper-Limb Prosthesis Myocontrol via High-Density sEMG and Incremental Learning

Dario Di Domenico, Nicolò Boccardo, Andrea Marinelli, Michele Canepa, Emanuele Gruppioni, Matteo Laffranchi, Raffaello Camoriano

Comments Pre-print version of published IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters paper (2024). 8 pages, 7 figures

Previous Knowledge Utilization In Online Anytime Belief Space Planning

Michael Novitsky, Moran Barenboim, Vadim Indelman

Comments 10 pages, 4 figures, will be submitted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)

A Modern Take on Visual Relationship Reasoning for Grasp Planning

Paolo Rabino, Tatiana Tommasi

Comments Accepted at IEEE RAL - in press

Safety Filtering While Training: Improving the Performance and Sample Efficiency of Reinforcement Learning Agents

Federico Pizarro Bejarano, Lukas Brunke, Angela P. Schoellig

Comments 8 pages, 9 figures. Code is publicly available at https://github.com/Federico-PizarroBejarano/safe-control-gym/tree/training_rl_paper

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (2025)

Lifelong Federated Reinforcement Learning: A Learning Architecture for Navigation in Cloud Robotic Systems

Boyi Liu, Lujia Wang, Ming Liu

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Volume: 4, Issue:4, On Page(s): 4555-4562, 2019

Quantifying Demonstration Quality for Robot Learning and Generalization

Maram Sakr, Zexi Jesse Li, H. F. Machiel Van der Loos, Dana Kulic, Elizabeth A. Croft

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters ( Volume: 7, Issue: 4, October 2022)

Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning for Quadrotors

Jiaxu Xing, Ismail Geles, Yunlong Song, Elie Aljalbout, Davide Scaramuzza

Journal ref Robotics and Automation Letters 2024

DynaMoN: Motion-Aware Fast and Robust Camera Localization for Dynamic Neural Radiance Fields

Nicolas Schischka, Hannah Schieber, Mert Asim Karaoglu, Melih Görgülü, Florian Grötzner, Alexander Ladikos, Daniel Roth, Nassir Navab, Benjamin Busam

Journal ref IEEE RA-L 2024

Targeted Hard Sample Synthesis Based on Estimated Pose and Occlusion Error for Improved Object Pose Estimation

Alan Li, Angela P. Schoellig

Comments To be published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)

Motion-Aware Optical Camera Communication with Event Cameras

Hang Su, Ling Gao, Tao Liu, Laurent Kneip

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2024

FASTNav: Fine-tuned Adaptive Small-language-models Trained for Multi-point Robot Navigation

Yuxuan Chen, Yixin Han, Xiao Li

Journal ref in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 390-397, Jan. 2025

CapsuleBot: A Novel Hybrid Aerial-Ground Bi-Copter Robot With Two Actuated-Wheel-Rotors

Zhi Zheng, Qifeng Cai, Jin Wang, Xinhang Xu, Muqing Cao, Huan Yu, Jihao Li, Jun Meng, Guodong Lu

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

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 120-127, Jan. 2025

Distributional Reinforcement Learning based Integrated Decision Making and Control for Autonomous Surface Vehicles

Xi Lin, Paul Szenher, Yewei Huang, Brendan Englot

Comments IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)

Drift-free Visual SLAM using Digital Twins

Roxane Merat, Giovanni Cioffi, Leonard Bauersfeld, Davide Scaramuzza

Journal ref Robotics and Automation Letters 2024

Robotics meets Fluid Dynamics: A Characterization of the Induced Airflow below a Quadrotor as a Turbulent Jet

Leonard Bauersfeld, Koen Muller, Dominic Ziegler, Filippo Coletti, Davide Scaramuzza

Comments 7+1 pages

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2024

Neural Observation Field Guided Hybrid Optimization of Camera Placement

Yihan Cao, Jiazhao Zhang, Zhinan Yu, Kai Xu

Comments Accepted by Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL 2024)

Journal ref Robotics and Automation Letters, Volume:9 Issue:11 Publication Year: 2024,Page(s):9207 - 9214

StreamMOS: Streaming Moving Object Segmentation with Multi-View Perception and Dual-Span Memory

Zhiheng Li, Yubo Cui, Jiexi Zhong, Zheng Fang

Comments Accepted for publication at IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL)

An Origami-Inspired Endoscopic Capsule with Tactile Perception for Early Tissue Anomaly Detection

Yukun Ge, Rui Zong, Xiaoshuai Zhang, Thrishantha Nanayakkara

Comments This work has been submitted to the IEEE for possible publication

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters ( Volume: 9, Issue: 11, November 2024)

Characterizing the Complexity of Social Robot Navigation Scenarios

Andrew Stratton, Kris Hauser, Christoforos Mavrogiannis

Comments Appearing in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Safe Non-Stochastic Control of Control-Affine Systems: An Online Convex Optimization Approach

Hongyu Zhou, Yichen Song, Vasileios Tzoumas

Comments IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. Update of v2 & v3: Correct footnote 4