TechcraftingAI Robotics

ArXiv Robotics research for Thursday, June 13, 2024.

00:19: Deep Reinforcement Learning-based Quadcopter Controller: A Practical Approach and Experiments

01:48: LLM-Driven Robots Risk Enacting Discrimination, Violence, and Unlawful Actions

03:33: Trajectory Planning for Autonomous Driving in Unstructured Scenarios Based on Graph Neural Network and Numerical Optimization

05:14: OmniH2O: Universal and Dexterous Human-to-Humanoid Whole-Body Teleoperation and Learning

06:39: Human-Robot Interface for Teleoperated Robotized Planetary Sample Collection and Assembly

08:10: Language-Driven Closed-Loop Grasping with Model-Predictive Trajectory Replanning

10:02: Adaptive Actor-Critic Based Optimal Regulation for Drift-Free Uncertain Nonlinear Systems

11:09: Direct Imitation Learning-based Visual Servoing using the Large Projection Formulation

12:17: Beyond the Frontier: Predicting Unseen Walls from Occupancy Grids by Learning from Floor Plans

13:28: AutomaChef: A Physics-informed Demonstration-guided Learning Framework for Granular Material Manipulation

14:34: EHAZOP: A Proof of Concept Ethical Hazard Analysis of an Assistive Robot

15:31: OpenVLA: An Open-Source Vision-Language-Action Model

17:51: Hands-free teleoperation of a nearby manipulator through a virtual body-to-robot link

19:23: Teleoperation of a robotic manipulator in peri-personal space: a virtual wand approach

21:05: RoTipBot: Robotic Handling of Thin and Flexible Objects using Rotatable Tactile Sensors

ArXiv Robotics research for Wednesday, June 12, 2024.

00:19: Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Swarm Confrontation with High Uncertainty

01:35: 100 Drivers, 2200 km: A Natural Dataset of Driving Style toward Human-centered Intelligent Driving Systems

03:08: Undergraduate Robotics Education with General Instructors using a Student-Centered Personalized Learning Framework

05:12: Metasensor: a proposal for sensor evolution in robotics

05:55: Highly agile flat swimming robot

06:56: Design, modeling, and characteristics of ringshaped robot actuated by functional fluid

08:15: Chemistry3D: Robotic Interaction Benchmark for Chemistry Experiments

09:49: Learning-based Traversability Costmap for Autonomous Off-road Navigation

10:59: A Hybrid Task-Constrained Motion Planning for Collaborative Robots in Intelligent Remanufacturing

12:41: Review of Autonomous Mobile Robots for the Warehouse Environment

13:50: Trajectory optimization of tail-sitter considering speed constraints

14:55: Utilizing Navigation Path to Generate Target Point for Enhanced End-to-End Autonomous Driving Planning

16:05: PRIBOOT: A New Data-Driven Expert for Improved Driving Simulations

17:41: AToM-Bot: Embodied Fulfillment of Unspoken Human Needs with Affective Theory of Mind

ArXiv Robotics research for Tuesday, June 11, 2024.

00:19: GPU-Accelerated Optimization-Based Collision Avoidance

01:14: Optimal Gait Design for a Soft Quadruped Robot via Multi-fidelity Bayesian Optimization

02:27: Optimal Gait Control for a Tendon-driven Soft Quadruped Robot by Model-based Reinforcement Learning

03:45: A Neck Orthosis with Multi-Directional Variable Stiffness for Persons with Dropped Head Syndrome

04:59: 3D Voxel Maps to 2D Occupancy Maps for Efficient Path Planning for Aerial and Ground Robots

06:31: OTO Planner: An Efficient Only Travelling Once Exploration Planner for Complex and Unknown Environments

07:51: Instruct Large Language Models to Drive like Humans

09:20: Realistic Data Generation for 6D Pose Estimation of Surgical Instruments

11:07: iMESA: Incremental Distributed Optimization for Collaborative Simultaneous Localization and Mapping

12:05: Improving the realism of robotic surgery simulation through injection of learning-based estimated errors

13:33: BAKU: An Efficient Transformer for Multi-Task Policy Learning

14:51: A3VLM: Actionable Articulation-Aware Vision Language Model

ArXiv Robotics research for Monday, June 10, 2024.

00:19: WoCoCo: Learning Whole-Body Humanoid Control with Sequential Contacts

01:52: Navigation and 3D Surface Reconstruction from Passive Whisker Sensing

02:49: Influence of Motion Restrictions in an Ankle Exoskeleton on Gait Kinematics and Stability in Straight Walking

04:03: Sim-To-Real Transfer for Visual Reinforcement Learning of Deformable Object Manipulation for Robot-Assisted Surgery

05:34: Nonlinear Model Predictive Control of Tiltrotor Quadrotors with Feasible Control Allocation

06:51: Stabilized Adaptive Steering for 3D Sonar Microphone Arrays with IMU Sensor Fusion

07:53: Human Gaze and Head Rotation during Navigation, Exploration and Object Manipulation in Shared Environments with Robots

09:01: A quantitative investigation for deployment of mobile collaborative robots in high-value manufacturing

11:05: Multicam-SLAM: Non-overlapping Multi-camera SLAM for Indirect Visual Localization and Navigation

12:22: An Empirical Design Justice Approach to Identifying Ethical Considerations in the Intersection of Large Language Models and Social Robotics

14:02: Notes on Various Errors and Jacobian Derivations for SLAM

15:49: Notes on Kalman Filter (KF, EKF, ESKF, IEKF, IESKF)

16:45: Towards Real-World Efficiency: Domain Randomization in Reinforcement Learning for Pre-Capture of Free-Floating Moving Targets by Autonomous Robots

18:01: Demonstrating HumanTHOR: A Simulation Platform and Benchmark for Human-Robot Collaboration in a Shared Workspace

ArXiv Robotics research for Sunday, June 09, 2024.

00:19: A Superalignment Framework in Autonomous Driving with Large Language Models

02:03: FlightBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark of Spatial Planning Methods for Quadrotors

03:21: Towards A General-Purpose Motion Planning for Autonomous Vehicles Using Fluid Dynamics

05:14: TR2MTL: LLM based framework for Metric Temporal Logic Formalization of Traffic Rules

06:35: Fast and Certifiable Trajectory Optimization

08:16: MAP-ADAPT: Real-Time Quality-Adaptive Semantic 3D Maps

09:38: Differentiable Discrete Elastic Rods for Real-Time Modeling of Deformable Linear Objects

10:59: Open-Vocabulary Part-Based Grasping

12:15: Visual-Inertial SLAM as Simple as A, B, VINS

13:24: LOP-Field: Brain-inspired Layout-Object-Position Fields for Robotic Scene Understanding

ArXiv Robotics research for Saturday, June 08, 2024.

00:19: Metaverse for Safer Roadways: An Immersive Digital Twin Framework for Exploring Human-Autonomy Coexistence in Urban Transportation Systems

01:47: A preprocessing-based planning framework for utilizing contacts in high-precision insertion tasks

03:20: Trust the PRoC3S: Solving Long-Horizon Robotics Problems with LLMs and Constraint Satisfaction

04:48: Toward Autonomous Driving by Musculoskeletal Humanoids: A Study of Developed Hardware and Learning-Based Software

05:52: A Survey on Hybrid Motion Planning Methods for Automated Driving Systems

07:33: Distributed Motion Control of Multiple Mobile Manipulator System with Disturbance and Communication Delay

08:42: Cross Language Soccer Framework: An Open Source Framework for the RoboCup 2D Soccer Simulation

09:58: Observation Denoising in CYRUS Soccer Simulation 2D Team For RoboCup 2024

ArXiv Robotics research for Friday, June 07, 2024.

00:19: A Hybrid-Layered System for Image-Guided Navigation and Robot Assisted Spine Surgery

01:58: Underactuated Control of Multiple Soft Pneumatic Actuators via Stable Inversion

03:03: Scaling Motion Planning Infeasibility Proofs

04:05: TEDi Policy: Temporally Entangled Diffusion for Robotic Control

04:57: Optimal path planning and weighted control of a four-arm robot in on-orbit servicing

06:11: Deep Learning Powered Estimate of The Extrinsic Parameters on Unmanned Surface Vehicles

07:14: SLR: Learning Quadruped Locomotion without Privileged Information

08:24: Auto-Multilift: Distributed Learning and Control for Cooperative Load Transportation With Quadrotors

10:01: InstructNav: Zero-shot System for Generic Instruction Navigation in Unexplored Environment

11:35: A Modular Framework for Flexible Planning in Human-Robot Collaboration

12:33: Sim-to-real Transfer of Deep Reinforcement Learning Agents for Online Coverage Path Planning

13:57: Robotic in-hand manipulation with relaxed optimization

15:09: Experimental Evaluation of ROS-Causal in Real-World Human-Robot Spatial Interaction Scenarios

16:45: Designs for Enabling Collaboration in Human-Machine Teaming via Interactive and Explainable Systems

18:23: I2EDL: Interactive Instruction Error Detection and Localization

ArXiv Robotics research for Thursday, June 06, 2024.

00:19: Phase-Amplitude Reduction-Based Imitation Learning

01:28: RoboCoder: Robotic Learning from Basic Skills to General Tasks with Large Language Models

02:54: Touch100k: A Large-Scale Touch-Language-Vision Dataset for Touch-Centric Multimodal Representation

04:43: Bench2Drive: Towards Multi-Ability Benchmarking of Closed-Loop End-To-End Autonomous Driving

06:48: A Survey of Language-Based Communication in Robotics

08:14: Data-driven Explainable Controller for Soft Robots based on Recurrent Neural Networks

09:45: Redundancy-aware Action Spaces for Robot Learning

10:58: MARLander: A Local Path Planning for Drone Swarms using Multiagent Deep Reinforcement Learning

12:12: Text-to-Drive: Diverse Driving Behavior Synthesis via Large Language Models

ArXiv Robotics research for Wednesday, June 05, 2024.

00:19: Real-time Motion Planning for autonomous vehicles in dynamic environments

01:48: Robots Have Been Seen and Not Heard: Effects of Consequential Sounds on Human-Perception of Robots

03:21: FREA: Feasibility-Guided Generation of Safety-Critical Scenarios with Reasonable Adversariality

04:49: Learning Semantic Traversability with Egocentric Video and Automated Annotation Strategy

06:27: Balancing Performance and Efficiency in Zero-shot Robotic Navigation

07:24: Adaptive Distance Functions via Kelvin Transformation

08:29: Object Manipulation in Marine Environments using Reinforcement Learning

09:49: Mission Design for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles using Hybrid Probabilistic Logic Program

ArXiv Robotics research for Tuesday, June 04, 2024.

00:19: Improving Generalization in Aerial and Terrestrial Mobile Robots Control Through Delayed Policy Learning

01:27: Exploring Real World Map Change Generalization of Prior-Informed HD Map Prediction Models

02:45: DrEureka: Language Model Guided Sim-To-Real Transfer

03:57: Cross-Embodiment Robot Manipulation Skill Transfer using Latent Space Alignment

05:31: Kinematic analysis of a parallel robot for minimally invasive surgery

06:19: MS-Mapping: Multi-session LiDAR Mapping with Wasserstein-based Keyframe Selection

07:37: An Observability-Constrained Magnetic-Field-Aided Inertial Navigation System

08:21: A Multipurpose Interface for Close- and Far-Proximity Control of Mobile Collaborative Robots

10:16: An Open and Reconfigurable User Interface to Manage Complex ROS-based Robotic Systems

11:48: Broadcasting Support Relations Recursively from Local Dynamics for Object Retrieval in Clutters

13:04: Train Localization During GNSS Outages: A Minimalist Approach Using Track Geometry And IMU Sensor Data

14:08: Exploiting Chordal Sparsity for Fast Global Optimality with Application to Localization

15:12: Query-based Semantic Gaussian Field for Scene Representation in Reinforcement Learning

16:48: Out-of-Distribution Runtime Adaptation with Conformalized Neural Network Ensembles

18:19: RoboCasa: Large-Scale Simulation of Everyday Tasks for Generalist Robots