Search Results - "Autonomous robots"

Progress and prospects of the human–robot collaboration by Ajoudani, Arash, Zanchettin, Andrea Maria, Ivaldi, Serena, Albu-Schäffer, Alin, Kosuge, Kazuhiro, Khatib, Oussama

“…Recent technological advances in hardware design of the robotic platforms enabled the implementation of various control modalities for improved interactions…”
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Motion planning and control for mobile robot navigation using machine learning: a survey by Xiao, Xuesu, Liu, Bo, Warnell, Garrett, Stone, Peter

“…Moving in complex environments is an essential capability of intelligent mobile robots. Decades of research and engineering have been dedicated to developing…”
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Optimization-based locomotion planning, estimation, and control design for the atlas humanoid robot by Kuindersma, Scott, Deits, Robin, Fallon, Maurice, Valenzuela, Andrés, Dai, Hongkai, Permenter, Frank, Koolen, Twan, Marion, Pat, Tedrake, Russ

“…This paper describes a collection of optimization algorithms for achieving dynamic planning, control, and state estimation for a bipedal robot designed to…”
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Low-drift and real-time lidar odometry and mapping by Zhang, Ji, Singh, Sanjiv

“…Here we propose a real-time method for low-drift odometry and mapping using range measurements from a 3D laser scanner moving in 6-DOF. The problem is hard…”
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TidyBot: personalized robot assistance with large language models by Wu, Jimmy, Antonova, Rika, Kan, Adam, Lepert, Marion, Zeng, Andy, Song, Shuran, Bohg, Jeannette, Rusinkiewicz, Szymon, Funkhouser, Thomas

“…For a robot to personalize physical assistance effectively, it must learn user preferences that can be generally reapplied to future scenarios. In this work,…”
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Revisiting active perception by Bajcsy, Ruzena, Aloimonos, Yiannis, Tsotsos, John K.

“…Despite the recent successes in robotics, artificial intelligence and computer vision, a complete artificial agent necessarily must include active perception…”
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OctoMap: an efficient probabilistic 3D mapping framework based on octrees by Hornung, Armin, Wurm, Kai M., Bennewitz, Maren, Stachniss, Cyrill, Burgard, Wolfram

“…Three-dimensional models provide a volumetric representation of space which is important for a variety of robotic applications including flying robots and…”
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Planning for cars that coordinate with people: leveraging effects on human actions for planning and active information gathering over human internal state by Sadigh, Dorsa, Landolfi, Nick, Sastry, Shankar S., Seshia, Sanjit A., Dragan, Anca D.

“…Traditionally, autonomous cars treat human-driven vehicles like moving obstacles. They predict their future trajectories and plan to stay out of their way…”
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An informative path planning framework for UAV-based terrain monitoring by Popović, Marija, Vidal-Calleja, Teresa, Hitz, Gregory, Chung, Jen Jen, Sa, Inkyu, Siegwart, Roland, Nieto, Juan

“…Unmanned aerial vehicles represent a new frontier in a wide range of monitoring and research applications. To fully leverage their potential, a key challenge…”
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Street-view change detection with deconvolutional networks by Alcantarilla, Pablo F., Stent, Simon, Ros, Germán, Arroyo, Roberto, Gherardi, Riccardo

“…We propose a system for performing structural change detection in street-view videos captured by a vehicle-mounted monocular camera over time. Our approach is…”
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Receding horizon path planning for 3D exploration and surface inspection by Bircher, Andreas, Kamel, Mina, Alexis, Kostas, Oleynikova, Helen, Siegwart, Roland

“…Within this paper a new path planning algorithm for autonomous robotic exploration and inspection is presented. The proposed method plans online in a receding…”
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Reinforcement based mobile robot path planning with improved dynamic window approach in unknown environment by Chang, Lu, Shan, Liang, Jiang, Chao, Dai, Yuewei

“…Mobile robot path planning in an unknown environment is a fundamental and challenging problem in the field of robotics. Dynamic window approach (DWA) is an…”
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Using probabilistic movement primitives in robotics by Paraschos, Alexandros, Daniel, Christian, Peters, Jan, Neumann, Gerhard

“…Movement Primitives are a well-established paradigm for modular movement representation and generation. They provide a data-driven representation of movements…”
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Comparing ICP variants on real-world data sets: Open-source library and experimental protocol by Pomerleau, François, Colas, Francis, Siegwart, Roland, Magnenat, Stéphane

“…Many modern sensors used for mapping produce 3D point clouds, which are typically registered together using the iterative closest point (ICP) algorithm…”
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Robust proprioceptive grasping with a soft robot hand by Homberg, Bianca S., Katzschmann, Robert K., Dogar, Mehmet R., Rus, Daniela

“…This work presents a soft hand capable of robustly grasping and identifying objects based on internal state measurements along with a combined system which…”
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Routing autonomous vehicles in congested transportation networks: structural properties and coordination algorithms by Rossi, Federico, Zhang, Rick, Hindy, Yousef, Pavone, Marco

“…This paper considers the problem of routing and rebalancing a shared fleet of autonomous (i.e., self-driving) vehicles providing on-demand mobility within a…”
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Grasp quality measures: review and performance by Roa, Máximo A., Suárez, Raúl

“…The correct grasp of objects is a key aspect for the right fulfillment of a given task. Obtaining a good grasp requires algorithms to automatically determine…”
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Multi-robot target detection and tracking: taxonomy and survey by Robin, Cyril, Lacroix, Simon

“…Target detection and tracking encompasses a variety of decisional problems such as coverage, surveillance, search, patrolling, observing and pursuit-evasion…”
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AlphaPilot: autonomous drone racing by Foehn, Philipp, Brescianini, Dario, Kaufmann, Elia, Cieslewski, Titus, Gehrig, Mathias, Muglikar, Manasi, Scaramuzza, Davide

“…This paper presents a novel system for autonomous, vision-based drone racing combining learned data abstraction, nonlinear filtering, and time-optimal…”
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Comparing ICP variants on real-world data sets by Pomerleau, François, Colas, Francis, Siegwart, Roland, Magnenat, Stéphane

“…Many modern sensors used for mapping produce 3D point clouds, which are typically registered together using the iterative closest point (ICP) algorithm…”
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