IEEE RA-L

Real-time Soft Body 3D Proprioception via Deep Vision-based Sensing

Ruoyu Wang, Shiheng Wang, Songyu Du, Erdong Xiao, Wenzhen Yuan, Chen Feng

Comments 8 pages, 5 figures; submitted to RA-L and ICRA 2020, video is attached at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVirop7rf8o&feature=youtu.be

Benchmarking Simulated Robotic Manipulation through a Real World Dataset

Jack Collins, Jessie McVicar, David Wedlock, Ross Brown, David Howard, Jürgen Leitner

Comments Accepted to the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) Special Issue: Benchmarking Protocols for Robotic Manipulation (2019)

Analysis of minima for geodesic and chordal cost for a minimal 2D pose-graph SLAM problem

Felix H. Kong, Jiaheng Zhao, Liang Zhao, Shoudong Huang

Comments Accepted for publication in Robotics and Automation Letters. This version contains extended proofs, which do not fit in the RA-L page limit

Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning Method for Autonomous Vehicle Behavior Planning

Zhiqian Qiao, Zachariah Tyree, Priyantha Mudalige, Jeff Schneider, John M. Dolan

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

Benchmark for Skill Learning from Demonstration: Impact of User Experience, Task Complexity, and Start Configuration on Performance

M. Asif Rana, Daphne Chen, S. Reza Ahmadzadeh, Jacob Williams, Vivian Chu, Sonia Chernova

Comments 8 pages, 8 figures, submitted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, videos and website can be found at https://sites.google.com/view/rail-lfd

Motion Planning Explorer: Visualizing Local Minima using a Local-Minima Tree

Andreas Orthey, Benjamin Frész, Marc Toussaint

Comments Submitted to Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) / International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

LDLS: 3-D Object Segmentation Through Label Diffusion From 2-D Images

Brian H. Wang, Wei-Lun Chao, Yan Wang, Bharath Hariharan, Kilian Q. Weinberger, Mark Campbell

Comments Accepted for publication in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters with presentation at IROS 2019

A Tunably Compliant Origami Mechanism for Dynamically Dexterous Robots

Wei-Hsi Chen, Shivangi Misra, Yuchong Gao, Young-Joo Lee, Daniel E. Koditschek, Shu Yang, Cynthia R. Sung

Comments This paper is submitted to the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, in review

DCT Maps: Compact Differentiable Lidar Maps Based on the Cosine Transform

Alexander Schaefer, Lukas Luft, Wolfram Burgard

Comments 8 pages

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (Volume: 3, Issue: 2, April 2018)

An Analytical Lidar Sensor Model Based on Ray Path Information

Alexander Schaefer, Lukas Luft, Wolfram Burgard

Comments 8 pages

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (Volume: 2, Issue: 3, July 2017)

Robust Incremental State Estimation through Covariance Adaptation

Ryan M. Watson, Jason N. Gross, Clark N. Taylor, Robert C. Leishman

Comments 8 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables, submitted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Defensive Escort Teams via Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning

Arpit Garg, Yazied A. Hasan, Adam Yañez, Lydia Tapia

Comments IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters with International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) option, 2020, under review

Information-Guided Robotic Maximum Seek-and-Sample in Partially Observable Continuous Environments

Genevieve Flaspohler, Victoria Preston, Anna P. M. Michel, Yogesh Girdhar, Nicholas Roy

Comments 8 pages, 8 figures, To appear in the proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2019 Macau

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) 2019

Active Learning for Risk-Sensitive Inverse Reinforcement Learning

Rui Chen, Wenshuo Wang, Zirui Zhao, Ding Zhao

Comments 8 pages without acknowledgment, 7 figures, submitted to RA-L and ICRA 2020 for the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)

Keep Rollin' - Whole-Body Motion Control and Planning for Wheeled Quadrupedal Robots

Marko Bjelonic, C. Dario Bellicoso, Yvain de Viragh, Dhionis Sako, F. Dante Tresoldi, Fabian Jenelten, Marco Hutter

Comments IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2019

FPR -- Fast Path Risk Algorithm to Evaluate Collision Probability

Andrew Blake, Alejandro Bordallo, Kamen Brestnichki, Majd Hawasly, Svetlin Penkov, Subramanian Ramamoorthy, Alexandre Silva

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

Bio-LSTM: A Biomechanically Inspired Recurrent Neural Network for 3D Pedestrian Pose and Gait Prediction

Xiaoxiao Du, Ram Vasudevan, Matthew Johnson-Roberson

Comments Typo corrected after Eq.(2)

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 1501-1508, April 2019

Learning Object-Action Relations from Bimanual Human Demonstration Using Graph Networks

Christian R. G. Dreher, Mirko Wächter, Tamim Asfour

Comments Submitted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Robot Risk-Awareness by Formal Risk Reasoning and Planning

Xuesu Xiao, Jan Dufek, Robin Murphy

Comments Submitted to Robotics and Automation Letters with ICRA option. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1909.02531

Human Visual Attention Prediction Boosts Learning & Performance of Autonomous Driving Agents

Alexander Makrigiorgos, Ali Shafti, Alex Harston, Julien Gerard, A. Aldo Faisal

Comments 7 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables. Submitted to IEEE RA-L with ICRA 2020

SwarmMesh: A Distributed Data Structure for Cooperative Multi-Robot Applications

Nathalie Majcherczyk, Carlo Pinciroli

Comments 8 pages, submitted to RAL-ICRA 2020

Fusing Body Posture with Facial Expressions for Joint Recognition of Affect in Child-Robot Interaction

Panagiotis P. Filntisis, Niki Efthymiou, Petros Koutras, Gerasimos Potamianos, Petros Maragos

Comments To be presented in IROS 2019

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 4(4), 4011-4018, 2019

A Hybrid Method for Online Trajectory Planning of Mobile Robots in Cluttered Environments

Leobardo Campos-Macías, David Gómez-Gutiérrez, Rodrigo Aldana-López, Rafael de la Guardia, José I. Parra-Vilchis

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2(2), 935-942, 2017

Robust Legged Robot State Estimation Using Factor Graph Optimization

David Wisth, Marco Camurri, Maurice Fallon

Comments 8 pages, 12 figures. Accepted to RA-L + IROS 2019, July 2019

Journal ref IEEE Robotics And Automation Letters (2019)

An Insect-scale Untethered Laser-powered Jumping Microrobot

Palak Bhushan, Claire Tomlin

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

Learning Vision-based Flight in Drone Swarms by Imitation

Fabian Schilling, Julien Lecoeur, Fabrizio Schiano, Dario Floreano

Comments 8 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) on July 28, 2019. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1809.00543

Real-Time Dense Stereo Matching With ELAS on FPGA Accelerated Embedded Devices

Oscar Rahnama, Duncan Frost, Ondrej Miksik, Philip H. S. Torr

Comments 8 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 2008-2015, July 2018

Whole-Body Control with (Self) Collision Avoidance using Vector Field Inequalities

Juan José Quiroz-Omaña, Bruno Vilhena Adorno

Comments Accepted on IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 6 pages

Journal ref IEEE Robot. Autom. Lett., pp. 1-6, Jul. 2019

A Convex Optimization-based Dynamic Model Identification Package for the da Vinci Research Kit

Yan Wang, Radian Gondokaryono, Adnan Munawar, Gregory S. Fischer

Comments 8 pages, in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters., 2019

Bee$^+$: A 95-mg Four-Winged Insect-Scale Flying Robot Driven by Twinned Unimorph Actuators

Xiufeng Yang, Ying Chen, Longlong Chang, Ariel A. Calderón, Néstor O. Pérez-Arancibia

Comments Accepted for publications in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) and the Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2019). 8 pages, 6 figures