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GIFT: Generalizable Interaction-aware Functional Tool Affordances without Labels

Dylan Turpin, Liquan Wang, Stavros Tsogkas, Sven Dickinson, Animesh Garg

Comments Qualitative results available at https://www.pair.toronto.edu/gift-tools-rss21

On the Importance of Environments in Human-Robot Coordination

Matthew C. Fontaine, Ya-Chuan Hsu, Yulun Zhang, Bryon Tjanaka, Stefanos Nikolaidis

Comments Accepted to Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2021

Entropy-Guided Control Improvisation

Marcell Vazquez-Chanlatte, Sebastian Junges, Daniel J. Fremont, Sanjit Seshia

Comments RSS 21

Discovering Generalizable Skills via Automated Generation of Diverse Tasks

Kuan Fang, Yuke Zhu, Silvio Savarese, Li Fei-Fei

Comments RSS 2021

STEP: Stochastic Traversability Evaluation and Planning for Risk-Aware Off-road Navigation

David D. Fan, Kyohei Otsu, Yuki Kubo, Anushri Dixit, Joel Burdick, Ali-Akbar Agha-Mohammadi

Comments Accepted to Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2021. Video link: https://youtu.be/N97cv4eH5c8

Move Beyond Trajectories: Distribution Space Coupling for Crowd Navigation

Muchen Sun, Francesca Baldini, Peter Trautman, Todd Murphey

Comments 12 pages

Journal ref Robotics: Science and Systems, 2021

Jerk-limited Real-time Trajectory Generation with Arbitrary Target States

Lars Berscheid, Torsten Kröger

Comments Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2021

Learning to Generalize Across Long-Horizon Tasks from Human Demonstrations

Ajay Mandlekar, Danfei Xu, Roberto Martín-Martín, Silvio Savarese, Li Fei-Fei

Comments RSS 2020; First two authors contributed equally

Adaptive-Control-Oriented Meta-Learning for Nonlinear Systems

Spencer M. Richards, Navid Azizan, Jean-Jacques Slotine, Marco Pavone

Comments Robotics: Science and Systems, Virtual, 2021

A Quality Diversity Approach to Automatically Generating Human-Robot Interaction Scenarios in Shared Autonomy

Matthew Fontaine, Stefanos Nikolaidis

Comments Accepted to Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2021

An Empowerment-based Solution to Robotic Manipulation Tasks with Sparse Rewards

Siyu Dai, Wei Xu, Andreas Hofmann, Brian Williams

Comments Accepted at RSS 2021

Inexact Loops in Robotics Problems

Erik Nelson

Comments Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2021

Convex Risk Bounded Continuous-Time Trajectory Planning in Uncertain Nonconvex Environments

Ashkan Jasour, Weiqiao Han, Brian Williams

Comments Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2021

Planning Multimodal Exploratory Actions for Online Robot Attribute Learning

Xiaohan Zhang, Jivko Sinapov, Shiqi Zhang

Comments To be published in Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), July 12-16, 2021

i3dLoc: Image-to-range Cross-domain Localization Robust to Inconsistent Environmental Conditions

Peng Yin, Lingyun Xu, Ji Zhang, Howie Choset, Sebastian Scherer

Comments 8 Pages, 8 Figures, Accepted Robotics: Science and Systems 2021 paper

Journal ref Robotics: Science and Systems 2021

Probabilistic Discriminative Models Address the Tactile Perceptual Aliasing Problem

John Lloyd, Yijiong Lin, Nathan F. Lepora

Comments 11 pages. Accepted in Robotics: Science & Systems (RSS 2021)

ALGAMES: A Fast Augmented Lagrangian Solver for Constrained Dynamic Games

Simon Le Cleac'h, Mac Schwager, Zachary Manchester

Comments Submitted to Autonomous Robots (under review) as an extension of a paper accepted to RSS 2020. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1910.09713

ALGAMES: A Fast Solver for Constrained Dynamic Games

Simon Le Cleac'h, Mac Schwager, Zachary Manchester

Comments 10 pages, 8 figures, submitted to Robotics: Science and Systems Conference (RSS) 2020

Journal ref Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems, 2020

DiSECt: A Differentiable Simulation Engine for Autonomous Robotic Cutting

Eric Heiden, Miles Macklin, Yashraj Narang, Dieter Fox, Animesh Garg, Fabio Ramos

Comments Accepted at Robotics: Science and Systems 2021

Robust Value Iteration for Continuous Control Tasks

Michael Lutter, Shie Mannor, Jan Peters, Dieter Fox, Animesh Garg

Comments Accepted Paper at Robotics: Science and Systems

OverlapNet: Loop Closing for LiDAR-based SLAM

Xieyuanli Chen, Thomas Läbe, Andres Milioto, Timo Röhling, Olga Vysotska, Alexandre Haag, Jens Behley, Cyrill Stachniss

Comments Accepted by RSS 2020. Code: https://github.com/PRBonn/OverlapNet

Blind Bipedal Stair Traversal via Sim-to-Real Reinforcement Learning

Jonah Siekmann, Kevin Green, John Warila, Alan Fern, Jonathan Hurst

Comments Accepted to RSS 2021. Submission video available at https://youtu.be/MPhEmC6b6XU and video of a supplemental robustness test at https://youtu.be/nuhHiKEtaZQ

High Precision Real Time Collision Detection

Alexandre Coulombe, Hsiu-Chin Lin

Comments 5 pages, 5 figures, Accepted at Robotics Science and Systems: Power On and Go workshop

Composable Energy Policies for Reactive Motion Generation and Reinforcement Learning

Julen Urain, Anqi Li, Puze Liu, Carlo D'Eramo, Jan Peters

Comments 8 pages, RSS 2021, Robotics: Science and Systems 2021

Multimodal Data Fusion for Power-On-and-Go Robotic Systems in Retail

Shubham Sonawani, Kailas Maneparambil, Heni Ben Amor

Comments POGO Workshop, RSS 2020

General Robot Dynamics Learning and Gen2Real

Dengpeng Xing, Jiale Li, Yiming Yang, Bo Xu

Comments On posting to RSS

Robot Inner Attention Modeling for Task-Adaptive Teaming of Heterogeneous Multi Robots

Chao Huang, Rui Liu

Comments submission for the Robotics Science and Systems (RSS) 2020 workshop -- Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Task Allocation and Coordination

Sequential Place Learning: Heuristic-Free High-Performance Long-Term Place Recognition

Marvin Chancán, Michael Milford

Comments Submitted to RSS 2021. 14 pages, 5 tables, 17 figures

Stochastic Spatio-Temporal Optimization for Control and Co-Design of Systems in Robotics and Applied Physics

Ethan N. Evans, Andrew P. Kendall, Evangelos A. Theodorou

Comments 34 pages, 10 figures. Submitted to Autonomous Robots special issue of RSS 2020. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2002.01397

VisuoSpatial Foresight for Multi-Step, Multi-Task Fabric Manipulation

Ryan Hoque, Daniel Seita, Ashwin Balakrishna, Aditya Ganapathi, Ajay Kumar Tanwani, Nawid Jamali, Katsu Yamane, Soshi Iba, Ken Goldberg

Comments Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2020