IEEE RA-L

Spatiotemporal Calibration of Camera and 3D Laser Scanner

Michal R. Nowicki

Comments Published in Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) with IROS presentation

Journal ref in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 6451-6458, Oct. 2020

Rectangular Pyramid Partitioning using Integrated Depth Sensors (RAPPIDS): A Fast Planner for Multicopter Navigation

Nathan Bucki, Junseok Lee, Mark W. Mueller

Comments Accepted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) with the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2020 (IROS) option

Vid2Param: Modelling of Dynamics Parameters from Video

Martin Asenov, Michael Burke, Daniel Angelov, Todor Davchev, Kartic Subr, Subramanian Ramamoorthy

Comments Accepted as a journal paper at IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)

Invariant Transform Experience Replay: Data Augmentation for Deep Reinforcement Learning

Yijiong Lin, Jiancong Huang, Matthieu Zimmer, Yisheng Guan, Juan Rojas, Paul Weng

Comments 8 pages, 11 figures, additional 3 pages for appendix. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL), 2020. Also in: Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Volume: 5, Issue: 4, p. 6615-6622, Oct. 2020

Where to Map? Iterative Rover-Copter Path Planning for Mars Exploration

Takahiro Sasaki, Kyohei Otsu, Rohan Thakker, Sofie Haesaert, Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi

Comments 8 pages, 7 figures

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Volume: 5 , Issue: 2 , April 2020

End-to-End Velocity Estimation For Autonomous Racing

Sirish Srinivasan, Inkyu Sa, Alex Zyner, Victor Reijgwart, Miguel I. Valls, Roland Siegwart

Comments RA-L + IROS 2020

Evolved Neuromorphic Control for High Speed Divergence-based Landings of MAVs

J. J. Hagenaars, F. Paredes-Vallés, S. M. Bohté, G. C. H. E. de Croon

Comments 8 pages, 6 figures, camera-ready version to appear in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 6239-6246, Oct. 2020

Sim2Real Predictivity: Does Evaluation in Simulation Predict Real-World Performance?

Abhishek Kadian, Joanne Truong, Aaron Gokaslan, Alexander Clegg, Erik Wijmans, Stefan Lee, Manolis Savva, Sonia Chernova, Dhruv Batra

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) 2020

"Good Robot!": Efficient Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Step Visual Tasks with Sim to Real Transfer

Andrew Hundt, Benjamin Killeen, Nicholas Greene, Hongtao Wu, Heeyeon Kwon, Chris Paxton, Gregory D. Hager

Comments Accepted to the journal IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) and to be presented at IROS 2020. This is a minor update to v3. 8 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables, 1 algorithm. Code is available at https://github.com/jhu-lcsr/good_robot and a video overview is at https://youtu.be/MbCuEZadkIw

A Tendon-driven Robot Gripper with Passively Switchable Underactuated Surface and its Physics Simulation Based Parameter Optimization

Tianyi Ko

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 5002-5009, Oct. 2020

Hybrid Systems Differential Dynamic Programming for Whole-Body Motion Planning of Legged Robots

He Li, Patrick M. Wensing

Comments author typeset final RA-L paper

Towards Better Surgical Instrument Segmentation in Endoscopic Vision: Multi-Angle Feature Aggregation and Contour Supervision

Fangbo Qin, Shan Lin, Yangming Li, Randall A. Bly, Kris S. Moe, Blake Hannaford

Comments Accepted by IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Neural Manipulation Planning on Constraint Manifolds

Ahmed H. Qureshi, Jiangeng Dong, Austin Choe, Michael C. Yip

Comments This is the preprint version of the paper published at IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2020

Journal ref in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 6089-6096, Oct. 2020

Human Perception-Optimized Planning for Comfortable VR-Based Telepresence

Israel Becerra, Markku Suomalainen, Eliezer Lozano, Katherine J. Mimnaugh, Rafael Murrieta-Cid, Steven M. LaValle

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

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Tactile Robotics: Learning to Type on a Braille Keyboard

Alex Church, John Lloyd, Raia Hadsell, Nathan F. Lepora

Comments Accepted in RAL and IROS 2020

Dynamic and Versatile Humanoid Walking via Embedding 3D Actuated SLIP Model with Hybrid LIP Based Stepping

Xiaobin Xiong, Aaron Ames

Comments 8 pages, 8 figures; To appear in Robotics and Automation Letters

Forecasting Trajectory and Behavior of Road-Agents Using Spectral Clustering in Graph-LSTMs

Rohan Chandra, Tianrui Guan, Srujan Panuganti, Trisha Mittal, Uttaran Bhattacharya, Aniket Bera, Dinesh Manocha

Comments Accepted to RAL/IROS 2020 as a dual journal and conference submission

Nonlinear MPC for Collision Avoidance and Controlof UAVs With Dynamic Obstacles

Björn Lindqvist, Sina Sharif Mansouri, Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi, George Nikolakopoulos

Comments 8 pages, 10 figures

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 6001-6008, Oct. 2020

BenchBot: Evaluating Robotics Research in Photorealistic 3D Simulation and on Real Robots

Ben Talbot, David Hall, Haoyang Zhang, Suman Raj Bista, Rohan Smith, Feras Dayoub, Niko Sünderhauf

Comments Future submission to RAL; software available at http://benchbot.org

Efficiently Calibrating Cable-Driven Surgical Robots with RGBD Fiducial Sensing and Recurrent Neural Networks

Minho Hwang, Brijen Thananjeyan, Samuel Paradis, Daniel Seita, Jeffrey Ichnowski, Danyal Fer, Thomas Low, Ken Goldberg

Comments 8 pages, 11 figures, 3 tables

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 5 (2020) 5937-5944

A Unified NMPC Scheme for MAVs Navigation with 3D Collision Avoidance under Position Uncertainty

Sina Sharif Mansouri, Christoforos Kanellakis, Bjorn Lindqvist, Farhad Pourkamali-Anaraki, Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi, Joel Burdick, George Nikolakopoulos

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Volume 5, Issue 4, On Page(s) 5740-5747, October 2020

Delta Descriptors: Change-Based Place Representation for Robust Visual Localization

Sourav Garg, Ben Harwood, Gaurangi Anand, Michael Milford

Comments 8 pages and 7 figures. Published in 2020 IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)

Simultaneously Learning Corrections and Error Models for Geometry-based Visual Odometry Methods

Andrea De Maio, Simon Lacroix

Comments Accepted in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters and IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020

Risk-Aware Motion Planning for a Limbed Robot with Stochastic Gripping Forces Using Nonlinear Programming

Yuki Shirai, Xuan Lin, Yusuke Tanaka, Ankur Mehta, Dennis Hong

Comments IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). Pre-print Version. The video of this paper is: https://youtu.be/ZDqvf1J4nS4

Cross-view Semantic Segmentation for Sensing Surroundings

Bowen Pan, Jiankai Sun, Ho Yin Tiga Leung, Alex Andonian, Bolei Zhou

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters ( Volume: 5 , Issue: 3 , July 2020 )

Contact-Implicit Trajectory Optimization using an Analytically Solvable Contact Model for Locomotion on Variable Ground

Iordanis Chatzinikolaidis, Yangwei You, Zhibin Li

Comments in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

RIDM: Reinforced Inverse Dynamics Modeling for Learning from a Single Observed Demonstration

Brahma S. Pavse, Faraz Torabi, Josiah P. Hanna, Garrett Warnell, Peter Stone

Comments IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, presented at International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2020)

Safe Optimal Control under Parametric Uncertainties

Hemanth Sarabu, Venkata Ramana Makkapati, Vinodhini Comandur, Panagiotis Tsiotras, Seth Hutchinson

Comments Accepted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Learning to Accelerate Decomposition for Multi-Directional 3D Printing

Chenming Wu, Yong-Jin Liu, Charlie C. L. Wang

Comments 8 pages, accepted by IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2020

Learning Force Control for Contact-rich Manipulation Tasks with Rigid Position-controlled Robots

Cristian Camilo Beltran-Hernandez, Damien Petit, Ixchel G. Ramirez-Alpizar, Takayuki Nishi, Shinichi Kikuchi, Takamitsu Matsubara, Kensuke Harada

Comments 8 pages, 9 figures, version accepted for IROS RA-L 2020, for associated video file, see https://youtu.be/4wdIhQxD6cA