IEEE RA-L

Efficient Sampling-Based Maximum Entropy Inverse Reinforcement Learning with Application to Autonomous Driving

Zheng Wu, Liting Sun, Wei Zhan, Chenyu Yang, Masayoshi Tomizuka

Comments Accepted by IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. June 2020

Learning dynamics for improving control of overactuated flying systems

Weixuan Zhang, Maximilian Brunner, Lionel Ott, Mina Kamel, Roland Siegwart, Juan Nieto

Comments 8 pages, accepted by IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Coverage Path Planning with Track Spacing Adaptation for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

Veronika Yordanova, Bart Gips

Comments Accepted submission at IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L); 8 pages, 6 figures

Learning to combine primitive skills: A step towards versatile robotic manipulation

Robin Strudel, Alexander Pashevich, Igor Kalevatykh, Ivan Laptev, Josef Sivic, Cordelia Schmid

Comments ICRA 2020. See the project webpage at https://www.di.ens.fr/willow/research/rlbc/

Journal ref IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS, JULY 2020. 4637-4643

Omnidirectional DSO: Direct Sparse Odometry with Fisheye Cameras

Hidenobu Matsuki, Lukas von Stumberg, Vladyslav Usenko, Jörg Stückler, Daniel Cremers

Comments Accepted by IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2018 and IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2018

Self-supervised Learning for Precise Pick-and-place without Object Model

Lars Berscheid, Pascal Meißner, Torsten Kröger

Comments Published in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Graduated Non-Convexity for Robust Spatial Perception: From Non-Minimal Solvers to Global Outlier Rejection

Heng Yang, Pasquale Antonante, Vasileios Tzoumas, Luca Carlone

Comments 10 pages, 5 figures, published at IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2020, Best Paper Award in Robot Vision at ICRA 2020

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

A Control Method to Compensate Ground Level Changes for Running Bipedal Robots

Özge Drama, Alexander Badri-Spröwitz

Comments 8 pages, 10 figures, submitted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Model-Based Generalization Under Parameter Uncertainty Using Path Integral Control

Ian Abraham, Ankur Handa, Nathan Ratliff, Kendall Lowrey, Todd D. Murphey, Dieter Fox

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

Modeling, Identification and Control of Model Jet Engines for Jet Powered Robotics

Giuseppe L'Erario, Luca Fiorio, Gabriele Nava, Fabio Bergonti, Hosameldin Awadalla Omer Mohamed, Emilio Benenati, Silvio Traversaro, Daniele Pucci

Comments 8 pages, 12 figures, submitted to RA-L and ICRA

Cooperative Team Strategies for Multi-player Perimeter-Defense Games

Daigo Shishika, James Paulos, Vijay Kumar

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

GFPNet: A Deep Network for Learning Shape Completion in Generic Fitted Primitives

Tiberiu Cocias, Alexandru Razvant, Sorin Grigorescu

Comments 8 pages, 14 figures, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. Preprint Version. Accepted May, 2020

Learning Densities in Feature Space for Reliable Segmentation of Indoor Scenes

Nicolas Marchal, Charlotte Moraldo, Roland Siegwart, Hermann Blum, Cesar Cadena, Abel Gawel

Comments Preprint version after acceptance of publication in the IEEE robotics and automation letters

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 1032-1038, April 2020

Multi-modal Transfer Learning for Grasping Transparent and Specular Objects

Thomas Weng, Amith Pallankize, Yimin Tang, Oliver Kroemer, David Held

Comments RA-L with presentation at ICRA 2020

Journal ref IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS, VOL. 5, NO. 3, JULY 2020. 3791-3798

DIGIT: A Novel Design for a Low-Cost Compact High-Resolution Tactile Sensor with Application to In-Hand Manipulation

Mike Lambeta, Po-Wei Chou, Stephen Tian, Brian Yang, Benjamin Maloon, Victoria Rose Most, Dave Stroud, Raymond Santos, Ahmad Byagowi, Gregg Kammerer, Dinesh Jayaraman, Roberto Calandra

Comments 8 pages, published in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)

LQR-Assisted Whole-Body Control of a Wheeled Bipedal Robot with Kinematic Loops

Victor Klemm, Alessandro Morra, Lionel Gulich, Dominik Mannhart, David Rohr, Mina Kamel, Yvain de Viragh, Roland Siegwart

Comments 8 pages, 10 figures, RA-L/ICRA 2020

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 3745-3752, April 2020

Learning Task-Oriented Grasping from Human Activity Datasets

Mia Kokic, Danica Kragic, Jeannette Bohg

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 5 (2020) 3352-3359

Safety Augmented Value Estimation from Demonstrations (SAVED): Safe Deep Model-Based RL for Sparse Cost Robotic Tasks

Brijen Thananjeyan, Ashwin Balakrishna, Ugo Rosolia, Felix Li, Rowan McAllister, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Sergey Levine, Francesco Borrelli, Ken Goldberg

Comments Robotics and Automation Letters and International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2020. First two authors contributed equally

Journal ref Robotics and Automation Letters 2020

Memory of Motion for Warm-starting Trajectory Optimization

Teguh Santoso Lembono, Antonio Paolillo, Emmanuel Pignat, Sylvain Calinon

Comments 8 pages

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 2594-2601, April 2020

A Real-Time Approach for Chance-Constrained Motion Planning with Dynamic Obstacles

Manuel Castillo-Lopez, Philippe Ludivig, Seyed Amin Sajadi-Alamdari, Jose Luis Sanchez-Lopez, Miguel A. Olivares-Mendez, Holger Voos

Comments This paper has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. Please cite the paper as: M. Castillo-Lopez, P. Ludivig, S. A. Sajadi-Alamdari, J. L. Sanchez-Lopez, M. A. Olivares-Mendez, H. Voos, "A Real-Time Approach for Chance-Constrained Motion Planning with Dynamic Obstacles", IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2020

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters ( Volume: 5 , Issue: 2 , April 2020 ) Page(s): 3620 - 3625

Design of the First Insect-scale Spinning-wing Robot

Palak Bhushan, Claire Tomlin

Comments 6 pages. (under review) submitted to Robotics and Automation Letters 2019

SilhoNet: An RGB Method for 6D Object Pose Estimation

Gideon Billings, Matthew Johnson-Roberson

Comments 8 pages, 3 figures

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 4.4 (2019): 3727-3734

Object-Centric Task and Motion Planning in Dynamic Environments

Toki Migimatsu, Jeannette Bohg

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (2020) vol. 5, issue 2, pp. 844-851

Voxgraph: Globally Consistent, Volumetric Mapping using Signed Distance Function Submaps

Victor Reijgwart, Alexander Millane, Helen Oleynikova, Roland Siegwart, Cesar Cadena, Juan Nieto

Comments 8 pages, 9 figures

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 5.1 (2019): 227-234

From Planes to Corners: Multi-Purpose Primitive Detection in Unorganized 3D Point Clouds

Christiane Sommer, Yumin Sun, Leonidas Guibas, Daniel Cremers, Tolga Birdal

Comments Accepted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2020 | Video: https://youtu.be/nHWJrA6RcB0 | Code: https://github.com/c-sommer/orthogonal-planes

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 5(2) 2020, 1764-1771

An Insect-scale Self-sufficient Rolling Microrobot

Palak Bhushan, Claire Tomlin

Comments 6 pages. (under review) submitted to Robotics and Automation Letters 2019

EGAD! an Evolved Grasping Analysis Dataset for diversity and reproducibility in robotic manipulation

Douglas Morrison, Peter Corke, Jürgen Leitner

Comments IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). Preprint Version. Accepted April, 2020. The dataset, code and videos can be found at https://dougsm.github.io/egad/

Track to Reconstruct and Reconstruct to Track

Jonathon Luiten, Tobias Fischer, Bastian Leibe

Comments RA-L 2020 and ICRA 2020

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 5.2 (2020): 1803-1810

A Transition-Aware Method for the Simulation of Compliant Contact with Regularized Friction

Alejandro M. Castro, Ante Qu, Naveen Kuppuswamy, Alex Alspach, Michael Sherman

Comments Published in IEEE RA-L and accepted to ICRA 2020. The first two authors contributed equally to this work. Copyright 2020 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media. The supplemental video is available publicly at https://youtu.be/p2p0Z1Bf91Y . 8 pages with 9 figures

Journal ref in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 1859-1866, April 2020

Constrained-Space Optimization and Reinforcement Learning for Complex Tasks

Ya-Yen Tsai, Bo Xiao, Edward Johns, Guang-Zhong Yang

Comments Accepted for publication in RA-Letters and at ICRA 2020

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 5(2) (2020) 682-689