IEEE RA-L

DROID: Minimizing the Reality Gap using Single-Shot Human Demonstration

Ya-Yen Tsai, Hui Xu, Zihan Ding, Chong Zhang, Edward Johns, Bidan Huang

Comments paper accepted and to be published in RA-L 2021

Unsupervised Learning of Lidar Features for Use in a Probabilistic Trajectory Estimator

David J. Yoon, Haowei Zhang, Mona Gridseth, Hugues Thomas, Timothy D. Barfoot

Comments Accepted for publication in RA-L 2021

Mesh Manifold based Riemannian Motion Planning for Omnidirectional Micro Aerial Vehicles

Michael Pantic, Lionel Ott, Cesar Cadena, Roland Siegwart, Juan Nieto

Comments Accepted to RA-L 2021. Video available at https://youtu.be/S9gRr_ryREo

Bidirectional Trajectory Computation for Odometer-Aided Visual-Inertial SLAM

Jinxu Liu, Wei Gao, Zhanyi Hu

Comments Accepted by IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

NEO: A Novel Expeditious Optimisation Algorithm for Reactive Motion Control of Manipulators

Jesse Haviland, Peter Corke

Comments IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). Preprint Version. Accepted January, 2021. The code and videos can be found at https://jhavl.github.io/neo/

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 1043-1050, April 2021

Combining Events and Frames using Recurrent Asynchronous Multimodal Networks for Monocular Depth Prediction

Daniel Gehrig, Michelle Rüegg, Mathias Gehrig, Javier Hidalgo Carrio, Davide Scaramuzza

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2021

Robust Model Predictive Path Integral Control: Analysis and Performance Guarantees

Manan Gandhi, Bogdan Vlahov, Jason Gibson, Grady Williams, Evangelos A. Theodorou

Comments To be published in Robotics and Automation Letters

The GRIFFIN Perception Dataset: Bridging the Gap Between Flapping-Wing Flight and Robotic Perception

J. P. Rodríguez-Gómez, R. Tapia, J. L. Paneque, P. Grau, A. Gómez Eguíluz, J. R. Martínez-de Dios, A. Ollero

Comments 8 pages, 22 figures, Video: "this https URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymCRnlWxX24&t=35s"

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2021

Reconstruction of Backbone Curves for Snake Robots

Tianyu Wang, Bo Lin, Baxi Chong, Julian Whitman, Matthew Travers, Daniel I. Goldman, Greg Blekherman, Howie Choset

Comments Accepted for publication in IEEE RA-L

Deep Samplable Observation Model for Global Localization and Kidnapping

Runjian Chen, Huan Yin, Yanmei Jiao, Gamini Dissanayake, Yue Wang, Rong Xiong

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

Learning Occupancy Priors of Human Motion from Semantic Maps of Urban Environments

Andrey Rudenko, Luigi Palmieri, Johannes Doellinger, Achim J. Lilienthal, Kai O. Arras

Comments 8 pages, final pre-print version of the IEEE RA-L letter

Lightweight 3-D Localization and Mapping for Solid-State LiDAR

Han Wang, Chen Wang, Lihua Xie

Comments Accepted by IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Intensity-SLAM: Intensity Assisted Localization and Mapping for Large Scale Environment

Han Wang, Chen Wang, Lihua Xie

Comments Accepted in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Keep it Simple: Data-efficient Learning for Controlling Complex Systems with Simple Models

Thomas Power, Dmitry Berenson

Comments 8 pages, 5 figures (excluding tables and algorithms), 2 algorithms, 1 table, accepted to RA-L. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0MOhBJejGc

Affordance-Aware Handovers with Human Arm Mobility Constraints

Paola Ardón, Maria E. Cabrera, Èric Pairet, Ronald P. A. Petrick, Subramanian Ramamoorthy, Katrin S. Lohan, Maya Cakmak

Comments Accepted for RA-L 2021

Vision-based Drone Flocking in Outdoor Environments

Fabian Schilling, Fabrizio Schiano, Dario Floreano

Comments 8 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) on February 2, 2021

Learning Variable Impedance Control via Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Force-Related Tasks

Xiang Zhang, Liting Sun, Zhian Kuang, Masayoshi Tomizuka

Comments Accepted by IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. Feb 2020

MOLTR: Multiple Object Localisation, Tracking, and Reconstruction from Monocular RGB Videos

Kejie Li, Hamid Rezatofighi, Ian Reid

Comments Accepted at IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

VIODE: A Simulated Dataset to Address the Challenges of Visual-Inertial Odometry in Dynamic Environments

Koji Minoda, Fabian Schilling, Valentin Wüest, Dario Floreano, Takehisa Yairi

Comments 8 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) January 31, 2021. IEEE Xplore link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9351597/

UAV Localization Using Autoencoded Satellite Images

Mollie Bianchi, Timothy D. Barfoot

Comments Accepted for publication in RA-L 2021

Force-guided High-precision Grasping Control of Fragile and Deformable Objects using sEMG-based Force Prediction

Ruoshi Wen, Kai Yuan, Qiang Wang, Shuai Heng, Zhibin Li

Comments 8 pages, 11 figures, to be published on IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. For the attached video, see https://youtu.be/0AotKaWFJDU

Belief Space Planning for Mobile Robots with Range Sensors using iLQG

Ke Sun, Vijay Kumar

Comments Accepted by Robotics and Automation Letters

OV$^{2}$SLAM : A Fully Online and Versatile Visual SLAM for Real-Time Applications

Maxime Ferrera, Alexandre Eudes, Julien Moras, Martial Sanfourche, Guy Le Besnerais

Comments Accepted for publication in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). Code is available at : \url{https://github.com/ov2slam/ov2slam}

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, IEEE 2021

Decentralized Ability-Aware Adaptive Control for Multi-robot Collaborative Manipulation

Lei Yan, Theodoros Stouraitis, Sethu Vijayakumar

Comments The article has been submitted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) with ICRA 2021 conference option; the article has been accepted for publication in RA-L

Task-Adaptive Robot Learning from Demonstration with Gaussian Process Models under Replication

Miguel Arduengo, Adrià Colomé, Júlia Borràs, Luis Sentis, Carme Torras

Comments 8 pages, 9 figures

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2021

Action sequencing using visual permutations

Michael Burke, Kartic Subr, Subramanian Ramamoorthy

Comments This paper has been accepted for publication at IEEE RA-L

PHASER: a Robust and Correspondence-free Global Pointcloud Registration

Lukas Bernreiter, Lionel Ott, Juan Nieto, Roland Siegwart, Cesar Cadena

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters ( Volume: 6, Issue: 2, April 2021)

TAMPC: A Controller for Escaping Traps in Novel Environments

Sheng Zhong, Zhenyuan Zhang, Nima Fazeli, Dmitry Berenson

Comments 8 pages, 7 figures (excluding tables and algorithms), 4 tables, 4 algorithms, accepted to RA-L, preprint

Task Planning on Stochastic Aisle Graphs for Precision Agriculture

Xinyue Kan, Thomas C. Thayer, Stefano Carpin, Konstantinos Karydis

Comments To appear in Robotics and Automation Letters

Graph-based non-linear least squares optimization for visual place recognition in changing environments

Stefan Schubert, Peer Neubert, Peter Protzel

Comments Accepted for publication in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) 2021. This is the accepted version