IEEE RA-L

Low Level Control of a Quadrotor with Deep Model-Based Reinforcement Learning

Nathan O. Lambert, Daniel S. Drew, Joseph Yaconelli, Roberto Calandra, Sergey Levine, Kristofer S. J. Pister

Comments Accepted to IROS and RA-L, 2019. For more information, see the website: https://sites.google.com/berkeley.edu/mbrl-quadrotor/. 9 pages, 12 figures

A Quadrotor with an Origami-Inspired Protective Mechanism

Jing Shu, Pakpong Chirarattananon

Comments Accepted for publication in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Occlusion-Aware Risk Assessment for Autonomous Driving in Urban Environments

Ming-Yuan Yu, Ram Vasudevan, Matthew Johnson-Roberson

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (Volume: 4, Issue: 2, April 2019)

Efficient Dense Frontier Detection for 2D Graph SLAM Based on Occupancy Grid Submaps

Juraj Oršulić, Damjan Miklić, Zdenko Kovačić

Journal ref J. Orsulic, D. Miklic and Z. Kovacic, "Efficient Dense Frontier Detection for 2D Graph SLAM Based on Occupancy Grid Submaps," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2019

Whole-Body MPC for a Dynamically Stable Mobile Manipulator

Maria Vittoria Minniti, Farbod Farshidian, Ruben Grandia, Marco Hutter

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2019

RL-RRT: Kinodynamic Motion Planning via Learning Reachability Estimators from RL Policies

Hao-Tien Lewis Chiang, Jasmine Hsu, Marek Fiser, Lydia Tapia, Aleksandra Faust

Comments Accepted to Robotics and Automation Letters in June 2019

Journal ref Robotics and Automation Letters 2019

Performance evaluation of a foot-controlled human-robot interface

Yanpei Huang, Etienne Burdet, Lin Cao, Phuoc Thien Phan, Anthony Meng Huat Tiong, Pai Zheng, Soo Jay Phee

Comments 7 pages, submit to 2019 IROS RA-Letter

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2019

Robust and Efficient Quadrotor Trajectory Generation for Fast Autonomous Flight

Boyu Zhou, Fei Gao, Luqi Wang, Chuhao Liu, Shaojie Shen

Comments IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS. ACCEPTED JUNE, 2019. Open source at: https://github.com/HKUST-Aerial-Robotics/Fast-Planner

A Joint Optimization Approach of LiDAR-Camera Fusion for Accurate Dense 3D Reconstructions

Weikun Zhen, Yaoyu Hu, Jingfeng Liu, Sebastian Scherer

Comments Accepted by IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters and is to be presented at IROS2019, Macau

Sample Efficient Learning of Path Following and Obstacle Avoidance Behavior for Quadrotors

Stefan Stevsic, Tobias Naegeli, Javier Alonso-Mora, Otmar Hilliges

Comments 8 pages

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters ( Volume: 3 , Issue: 4 , Oct. 2018 )

Monocular Object and Plane SLAM in Structured Environments

Shichao Yang, Sebastian Scherer

Comments IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Automatic Coverage Selection for Surface-Based Visual Localization

James Mount, Les Dawes, Michael Milford

Comments Accepted to the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Safe Trajectory Generation for Complex Urban Environments Using Spatio-temporal Semantic Corridor

Wenchao Ding, Lu Zhang, Jing Chen, Shaojie Shen

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

Learning to Plan Hierarchically from Curriculum

Philippe Morere, Lionel Ott, Fabio Ramos

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (2019)

Understanding Natural Language Instructions for Fetching Daily Objects Using GAN-Based Multimodal Target-Source Classification

Aly Magassouba, Komei Sugiura, Anh Trinh Quoc, Hisashi Kawai

Comments 8 pages, 6 figures, 5 tables. Accepted for RA-L with presentation at IROS 2019

The Oxford Multimotion Dataset: Multiple SE(3) Motions with Ground Truth

Kevin M. Judd, Jonathan D. Gammell

Comments 8 Pages. 8 Figures. Video available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXaHEdiKxdA. Dataset available at https://robotic-esp.com/datasets/

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (Volume: 4 , Issue: 2 , April 2019)

Geo-Supervised Visual Depth Prediction

Xiaohan Fei, Alex Wong, Stefano Soatto

Comments ICRA 2019, RA-L 2019

Automatic Multi-Sensor Extrinsic Calibration for Mobile Robots

David Zuñiga-Noël, Jose-Raul Ruiz-Sarmiento, Ruben Gomez-Ojeda, Javier Gonzalez-Jimenez

Comments 8 pages. 3 figures. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2019. Project webpage (code): http://github.com/dzunigan/robot_autocalibration

Effects of Different Hand-Grounding Locations on Haptic Performance With a Wearable Kinesthetic Haptic Device

Sajid Nisar, Melisa Orta Martinez, Takahiro Endo, Fumitoshi Matsuno, Allison M. Okamura

Comments 8 pages, 11 figures, 1 table

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 351-358, April 2019

Tracking Human Pose During Robot-Assisted Dressing using Single-Axis Capacitive Proximity Sensing

Zackory Erickson, Maggie Collier, Ariel Kapusta, Charles C. Kemp

Comments 8 pages, 13 figures, 2018 IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)

Thermal Recovery of Multi-Limbed Robots with Electric Actuators

Steven Jens Jorgensen, James Holley, Frank Mathis, Joshua S. Mehling, Luis Sentis

Comments 8 pages, 7 figures, Published to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters on January 18, 2019. Corrections on Arxiv Version Added on May, 2019

DispSegNet: Leveraging Semantics for End-to-End Learning of Disparity Estimation from Stereo Imagery

Junming Zhang, Katherine A. Skinner, Ram Vasudevan, Matthew Johnson-Roberson

Comments Add more description on the architecture of the model. Add more discussion on section IV-C. Fix typo in formula 6

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 1162-1169, April 2019

Adapting Semantic Segmentation Models for Changes in Illumination and Camera Perspective

Wei Zhou, Alex Zyner, Stewart Worrall, Eduardo Nebot

Comments Submitted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) and 2019 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

The RGB-D Triathlon: Towards Agile Visual Toolboxes for Robots

Fabio Cermelli, Massimiliano Mancini, Elisa Ricci, Barbara Caputo

Comments This work has been submitted to IROS/RAL 2019

Contact-Implicit Trajectory Optimization using Orthogonal Collocation

Amir Patel, Stacey Shield, Saif Kazi, Aaron M. Johnson, Lorenz T. Biegler

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 2242-2249, April 2019

Experimental Comparison of Visual-Aided Odometry Methods for Rail Vehicles

Florian Tschopp, Thomas Schneider, Andrew W. Palmer, Navid Nourani-Vatani, Cesar Cadena, Roland Siegwart, Juan Nieto

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters ( Volume: 4 , Issue: 2 , April 2019 )

Sparse2Dense: From direct sparse odometry to dense 3D reconstruction

Jiexiong Tang, John Folkesson, Patric Jensfelt

Comments Accepted to ICRA 2019 (RA-L option), video demo available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pbSHX72JC8&t=22s

Long range teleoperation for fine manipulation tasks under time-delay network conditions

Jun Jin, Laura Petrich, Shida He, Masood Dehghan, Martin Jagersand

Comments --submitted to IROS 2019 with RA-L option

Monocular Camera Based Fruit Counting and Mapping with Semantic Data Association

Xu Liu, Steven W. Chen, Chenhao Liu, Shreyas S. Shivakumar, Jnaneshwar Das, Camillo J. Taylor, James Underwood, Vijay Kumar

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

Learning to serve: an experimental study for a new learning from demonstrations framework

Okan Koc, Jan Peters

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 1784-1791, April 2019. URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8630019&isnumber=8581687