IEEE RA-L

Inferring 3D Shapes of Unknown Rigid Objects in Clutter through Inverse Physics Reasoning

Changkyu Song, Abdeslam Boularias

Journal ref The IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) with the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2019)

AgriColMap: Aerial-Ground Collaborative 3D Mapping for Precision Farming

Ciro Potena, Raghav Khanna, Juan Nieto, Roland Siegwart, Daniele Nardi, Alberto Pretto

Comments Published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2019

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol: 4, Issue: 2, April 2019, pages 1085-1092

Multi-Process Fusion: Visual Place Recognition Using Multiple Image Processing Methods

Stephen Hausler, Adam Jacobson, Michael Milford

Comments Pre-print version of article published in Robotics and Automation Letters

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 1924-1931, April 2019

Sparse Depth Enhanced Direct Thermal-infrared SLAM Beyond the Visible Spectrum

Young-Sik Shin, Ayoung Kim

Comments 8 pages, 7 figures, Submitted to 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2019) and IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Stereo Visual Inertial LiDAR Simultaneous Localization and Mapping

Weizhao Shao, Srinivasan Vijayarangan, Cong Li, George Kantor

Comments Submitted to RA-L with IROS 2019 option

Learning to See the Wood for the Trees: Deep Laser Localization in Urban and Natural Environments on a CPU

Georgi Tinchev, Adrian Penate-Sanchez, Maurice Fallon

Comments Accepted for publication at RA-L/ICRA 2019. More info: https://ori.ox.ac.uk/esm-localization

Real-Time Quad-Rotor Path Planning Using Convex Optimization and Compound State-Triggered Constraints

Michael Szmuk, Danylo Malyuta, Taylor P. Reynolds, Margaret Skye Mceowen, Behcet Acikmese

Comments 8 pages, 4 figures, IEEE RA-L with IROS 2019 option

Towards Robotic Feeding: Role of Haptics in Fork-based Food Manipulation

Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee, Gilwoo Lee, Hanjun Song, Siddhartha S. Srinivasa

Comments 8 pages

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Volume: 4 , Issue: 2 , Page(s): 1485 - 1492, April 2019

Learning Ground Traversability from Simulations

R. Omar Chavez-Garcia, Jerome Guzzi, Luca M. Gambardella, Alessandro Giusti

Comments Webpage: http://romarcg.xyz/traversability_estimation/

Journal ref in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 1695-1702, July 2018

Fast and Continuous Foothold Adaptation for Dynamic Locomotion through CNNs

Octavio Villarreal, Victor Barasuol, Marco Camurri, Luca Franceschi, Michele Focchi, Massimiliano Pontil, Darwin G. Caldwell, Claudio Semini

Comments 9 pages, 11 figures. Accepted to RA-L + ICRA 2019, January 2019

Asynchronous Spatial Image Convolutions for Event Cameras

Cedric Scheerlinck, Nick Barnes, Robert Mahony

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 4, No. 2, April 2019, pp. 816-822

Enabling Robots to Infer how End-Users Teach and Learn through Human-Robot Interaction

Dylan P. Losey, Marcia K. O'Malley

Comments IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Learning Navigation Behaviors End-to-End with AutoRL

Hao-Tien Lewis Chiang, Aleksandra Faust, Marek Fiser, Anthony Francis

Comments Accepted to RA-L/ICRA 2019. Chiang and Faust contributed equally

Learning to Predict Ego-Vehicle Poses for Sampling-Based Nonholonomic Motion Planning

Holger Banzhaf, Paul Sanzenbacher, Ulrich Baumann, J. Marius Zöllner

Comments Extended version of DOI 10.1109/LRA.2019.2893975, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2019

Robust Photogeometric Localization over Time for Map-Centric Loop Closure

Chanoh Park, Soohwan Kim, Peyman Moghadam, Jiadong Guo, Sridha Sridharan, Clinton Fookes

Comments To Appear in IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS, ACCEPTED JANUARY 2019

Active Localization of Gas Leaks using Fluid Simulation

Martin Asenov, Marius Rutkauskas, Derryck Reid, Kartic Subr, Subramanian Ramamoorthy

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

Localization Algorithm with Circular Representation in 2D and its Similarity to Mammalian Brains

Tsang-Kai Chang, Shengkang Chen, Ankur Mehta

Comments 8 pages, 2 figures, submitted to the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) journal with the option for presentation at RSS

Loosely-Coupled Semi-Direct Monocular SLAM

Seong Hun Lee, Javier Civera

Comments Accepted for publication in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. Watch video demo at: https://youtu.be/j7WnU7ZpZ8c

Learning Long-Range Perception Using Self-Supervision from Short-Range Sensors and Odometry

Mirko Nava, Jerome Guzzi, R. Omar Chavez-Garcia, Luca M. Gambardella, Alessandro Giusti

Comments Preprint version IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2019

Focal Loss in 3D Object Detection

Peng Yun, Lei Tai, Yuan Wang, Chengju Liu, Ming Liu

Comments IEEE RA-L 2019 to appear. Codes and trained weights are available on the project page(https://goo.gl/2hFbmL)

VR-Goggles for Robots: Real-to-sim Domain Adaptation for Visual Control

Jingwei Zhang, Lei Tai, Peng Yun, Yufeng Xiong, Ming Liu, Joschka Boedecker, Wolfram Burgard

Comments IEEE RA-L 2019 to appear. The first two authors contributed equally. Video and supplement file are available on the project page(https://goo.gl/KcvmRm)

Trajectory Generation for Multiagent Point-To-Point Transitions via Distributed Model Predictive Control

Carlos E. Luis, Angela P. Schoellig

Comments 8 pages, 7 figures

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 4, iss. 2, pp. 375-382, 2019

A White-Noise-On-Jerk Motion Prior for Continuous-Time Trajectory Estimation on SE(3)

Tim Y. Tang, David J. Yoon, Timothy D. Barfoot

Comments To appear in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). 8 pages, 5 figures

Normalization in Training U-Net for 2D Biomedical Semantic Segmentation

Xiao-Yun Zhou, Guang-Zhong Yang

Comments 5 figures, 5 tables, published on IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2019

Multimodal Sensing and Interaction for a Robotic Hand Orthosis

Sangwoo Park, Cassie Meeker, Lynne M. Weber, Lauri Bishop, Joel Stein, Matei Ciocarlie

Comments 8 pages. 9 Figures. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. Preprint version. Accepted Dec, 2018

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 315 - 322, April 2019

VUNet: Dynamic Scene View Synthesis for Traversability Estimation using an RGB Camera

Noriaki Hirose, Amir Sadeghian, Fei Xia, Roberto Martin-Martin, Silvio Savarese

Comments website: http://svl.stanford.edu/projects/vunet/

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2019

Local Descriptor for Robust Place Recognition using LiDAR Intensity

Jiadong Guo, Paulo V. K. Borges, Chanoh Park, Abel Gawel

Comments ICRA 2019 Submission with RA-L option, version 2

Force Generation by Parallel Combinations of Fiber-Reinforced Fluid-Driven Actuators

Daniel Bruder, Audrey Sedal, Ram Vasudevan, C. David Remy

Comments Published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

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

VLocNet++: Deep Multitask Learning for Semantic Visual Localization and Odometry

Noha Radwan, Abhinav Valada, Wolfram Burgard

Comments Demo and dataset available at http://deeploc.cs.uni-freiburg.de

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 3(4):4407-4414, 2018

Multispecies fruit flower detection using a refined semantic segmentation network

Philipe A. Dias, Amy Tabb, Henry Medeiros

Comments 8 pages

Journal ref IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 3003-3010, Oct. 2018