2021.9.20 Robotics papers

09-14-2021	GPGM-SLAM: a Robust SLAM System for Unstructured Planetary Environments with Gaussian Process Gradient Maps by Riccardo Giubilato et al
09-14-2021	Analyzing Multiagent Interactions in Traffic Scenes via Topological Braids by Christoforos Mavrogiannis et al
09-17-2021	Efficient State Representation Learning for Dynamic Robotic Scenarios by Zhaorun Chen et al
09-16-2021	Optimal Partitioning of Non-Convex Environments for Minimum Turn Coverage Planning by Megnath Ramesh et al
09-15-2021	Sequential Point Cloud Prediction in Interactive Scenarios: A Survey by Haowen Wang et al
09-15-2021	Mixed Control for Whole-Body Compliance of a Humanoid Robot by Xiaozhu Ju et al
09-15-2021	ROS-X-Habitat: Bridging the ROS Ecosystem with Embodied AI by Guanxiong Chen et al
09-15-2021	Elastic Tracker: A Spatio-temporal Trajectory Planner Flexible Aerial Tracking by Jialin Ji et al
09-14-2021	MotionHint: Self-Supervised Monocular Visual Odometry with Motion Constraints by Cong Wang et al
09-14-2021	Learning Based Adaptive Force Control of Robotic Manipulation Based on Real-Time Object Stiffness Detection by Zhaoxing Deng et al
09-14-2021	Multi-modal Motion Prediction with Transformer-based Neural Network for Autonomous Driving by Zhiyu Huang et al
09-15-2021	Solving Occlusion in Terrain Mapping with Neural Networks by Maximilian Stölzle et al
09-14-2021	Object Shell Reconstruction: Camera-centric Object Representation for Robotic Grasping by Nikhil Chavan-Dafle et al
09-15-2021	A Self-rescue Mechanism for an In-pipe Robot for Large Obstacle Negotiation in Water Distribution Systems by MSaber Kazeminasab et al
09-17-2021	Is Curiosity All You Need? On the Utility of Emergent Behaviours from Curious Exploration by Oliver Groth et al
09-15-2021	Expertise Affects Drone Racing Performance by Christian Pfeiffer et al
09-14-2021	Shape-adaptive Hysteresis Compensation for Tendon-driven Continuum Manipulators by Young-Ho Kim et al
09-16-2021	STD-Trees: Spatio-temporal Deformable Trees for Multirotors Kinodynamic Planning by Hongkai Ye et al
09-14-2021	GALOPP: Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning For Persistent Monitoring With Localization Constraints by Manav Mishra et al
09-16-2021	Flexible and Explainable Solutions for Multi-Agent Path Finding Problems by Aysu Bogatarkan
09-16-2021	ObjectFolder: A Dataset of Objects with Implicit Visual, Auditory, and Tactile Representations by Ruohan Gao et al
09-15-2021	Multi-Task Learning with Sequence-Conditioned Transporter Networks by Michael H. Lim et al
09-15-2021	Modeling Ice Friction for Vehicle Dynamics of a Bobsled with Application in Driver Evaluation and Driving Simulation by Julian von Schleinitz et al
09-16-2021	Towards Defensive Autonomous Driving: Collecting and Probing Driving Demonstrations of Mixed Qualities by Jeongwoo Oh et al
09-16-2021	Garment Similarity Network (GarNet): A Continuous Perception Robotic Approach for Predicting Shapes and Visually Perceived Weights of Unseen Garments by Li Duan et al
09-17-2021	Taxonomy and Survey on Remote Human Input Systems for Driving Automation Systems by Daniel Bogdoll et al
09-16-2021	Automated Testing with Temporal Logic Specifications for Robotic Controllers using Adaptive Experiment Design by Craig Innes et al
09-15-2021	Adversarially Regularized Policy Learning Guided by Trajectory Optimization by Zhigen Zhao et al
09-16-2021	Marginal MAP Estimation for Inverse RL under Occlusion with Observer Noise by Prasanth Sengadu Suresh et al
09-15-2021	DCUR: Data Curriculum for Teaching via Samples with Reinforcement Learning by Daniel Seita et al
09-15-2021	Whole-Body Control with Motion/Force Transmissibility for Parallel-Legged Robot by Jiajun Wang et al
09-17-2021	AutoPlace: Robust Place Recognition with Low-cost Single-chip Automotive Radar by Kaiwen Cai et al
09-16-2021	ROOAD: RELLIS Off-road Odometry Analysis Dataset by George Chustz et al
09-14-2021	CORNET 2.0: A Co-Simulation Middleware forRobot Networks by Srikrishna Acharya et al
09-16-2021	Efficient Differentiable Simulation of Articulated Bodies by Yi-Ling Qiao et al
09-15-2021	SPIN Road Mapper: Extracting Roads from Aerial Images via Spatial and Interaction Space Graph Reasoning for Autonomous Driving by Wele Gedara Chaminda Bandara et al
09-16-2021	R-PCC: A Baseline for Range Image-based Point Cloud Compression by Sukai Wang et al
09-15-2021	Infusing model predictive control into meta-reinforcement learning for mobile robots in dynamic environments by Jaeuk Shin et al
09-15-2021	Enhancing Data-Driven Reachability Analysis using Temporal Logic Side Information by Amr Alanwar et al
09-15-2021	Learning Robot Structure and Motion Embeddings using Graph Neural Networks by J. Taery Kim et al
09-14-2021	Spiking Neural Networks for Visual Place Recognition via Weighted Neuronal Assignments by Somayeh Hussaini et al
09-15-2021	Learning Friction Model for Magnet-actuated Tethered Capsule Robot by Yi Wang et al
09-16-2021	Raising context awareness in motion forecasting by Hédi Ben-Younes et al
09-16-2021	Convex strategies for trajectory optimisation: application to the Polytope Traversal Problem by Steve Tonneau
09-16-2021	Knowledge-based Embodied Question Answering by Sinan Tan et al
09-14-2021	Rethinking Trust in Social Robotics by Rachele Carli et al
09-16-2021	Dynamics-Aware Quality-Diversity for Efficient Learning of Skill Repertoires by Bryan Lim et al
09-17-2021	Carl-Lead: Lidar-based End-to-End Autonomous Driving with Contrastive Deep Reinforcement Learning by Peide Cai et al
09-16-2021	Robust Control Under Uncertainty via Bounded Rationality and Differential Privacy by Vincent Pacelli et al
09-14-2021	DPMPC-Planner: A real-time UAV trajectory planning framework for complex static environments with dynamic obstacles by Zhefan Xu et al
09-16-2021	End-to-End Partially Observable Visual Navigation in a Diverse Environment by Bo Ai et al
09-14-2021	Koopman Linearization for Data-Driven Batch State Estimation of Control-Affine Systems by Zi Cong Guo et al
09-15-2021	Maneuver-based Trajectory Prediction for Self-driving Cars Using Spatio-temporal Convolutional Networks by Benedikt Mersch et al
09-17-2021	Realistic PointGoal Navigation via Auxiliary Losses and Information Bottleneck by Guillermo Grande et al
09-16-2021	Conservative Data Sharing for Multi-Task Offline Reinforcement Learning by Tianhe Yu et al
09-17-2021	Autonomous Vision-based UAV Landing with Collision Avoidance using Deep Learning by Tianpei Liao et al
09-15-2021	Linear-Time Contact and Friction Dynamics in Maximal Coordinates using Variational Integrators by Jan Brüdigam et al
09-16-2021	Probabilistic Stability Analysis of Planar Robots with Piecewise Constant Derivative Dynamics by Spandan Das et al
09-16-2021	Neural Network Based Lidar Gesture Recognition for Realtime Robot Teleoperation by Simon Chamorro et al
09-17-2021	Integrating Deep Reinforcement and Supervised Learning to Expedite Indoor Mapping by Elchanan Zwecher et al
09-15-2021	Life-Long Multi-Task Learning of Adaptive Path Tracking Policy for Autonomous Vehicle by Cheng Gong et al
09-16-2021	Are we ready for beyond-application high-volume data? The Reeds robot perception benchmark dataset by Ola Benderius et al
09-14-2021	The Promise of Dataflow Architectures in the Design of Processing Systems for Autonomous Machines by Shaoshan Liu et al
09-15-2021	Two algorithms for vehicular obstacle detection in sparse pointcloud by Simone Mentasti et al
09-14-2021	Dependability Analysis of Deep Reinforcement Learning based Robotics and Autonomous Systems by Yi Dong et al
09-15-2021	METEOR: A Massive Dense & Heterogeneous Behavior Dataset for Autonomous Driving by Rohan Chandra et al
09-16-2021	Learning Observation-Based Certifiable Safe Policy for Decentralized Multi-Robot Navigation by Yuxiang Cui et al
09-15-2021	OPV2V: An Open Benchmark Dataset and Fusion Pipeline for Perception with Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication by Runsheng Xu et al
09-15-2021	Combining Context Awareness and Planning to Learn Behavior Trees from Demonstration by Oscar Gustavsson et al
09-15-2021	ROW-SLAM: Under-Canopy Cornfield Semantic SLAM by Jiacheng Yuan et al
09-16-2021	Decentralized Control of Quadrotor Swarms with End-to-end Deep Reinforcement Learning by Sumeet Batra et al
09-15-2021	A Wide-area, Low-latency, and Power-efficient 6-DoF Pose Tracking System for Rigid Objects by Young-Ho Kim et al
09-14-2021	Learning to Navigate Intersections with Unsupervised Driver Trait Inference by Shuijing Liu et al
09-17-2021	Adaptive Steering Control for Steer-by-Wire Systems by Harsh Shukla
09-14-2021	A Hierarchical Control Framework for Drift Maneuvering of Autonomous Vehicles by Bo Yang et al
09-14-2021	Comparing Reconstruction- and Contrastive-based Models for Visual Task Planning by Constantinos Chamzas et al
09-15-2021	Hybrid ICP by Kamil Dreczkowski et al
09-15-2021	Local NMPC on Global Optimised Path for Autonomous Racing by Dvij Kalaria et al
09-15-2021	Handling Noise in Search-Based Scenario Generation for Autonomous Driving Systems by Stefan Klikovits et al
09-15-2021	Efficient and Probabilistic Adaptive VoxelnMapping for Accurate Online3D SLAM by Chongjian Yuan et al
09-15-2021	Soft-Jig: A Flexible Sensing Jig for Simultaneously Fixing and Estimating Orientation of Assembly Parts by Tatsuya Sakuma et al
09-16-2021	ThriftyDAgger: Budget-Aware Novelty and Risk Gating for Interactive Imitation Learning by Ryan Hoque et al
09-17-2021	A physics-informed, vision-based method to reconstruct all deformation modes in slender bodies by Seung Hyun Kim et al
09-15-2021	HM-DDP: A Hybrid Multiple-shooting Differential Dynamic Programming Method for Constrained Trajectory Optimization by Yunxi Tang et al
09-17-2021	Decentralized Global Connectivity Maintenance for Multi-Robot Navigation: A Reinforcement Learning Approach by Minghao Li et al
09-17-2021	LOF: Structure-Aware Line Tracking based on Optical Flow by Meixiang Quan et al
09-15-2021	Real-Time Multi-Contact Model Predictive Control via ADMM by Alp Aydinoglu et al
09-14-2021	Design and Model Predictive Control of Mars Coaxial Quadrotor by Akash Patel et al
09-15-2021	Globally Consistent 3D LiDAR Mapping with GPU-accelerated GICP Matching Cost Factors by Kenji Koide et al
09-15-2021	DSOR: A Scalable Statistical Filter for Removing Falling Snow from LiDAR Point Clouds in Severe Winter Weather by Akhil Kurup et al
09-15-2021	Image-Based Multi-UAV Tracking System in a Cluttered Environment by Hsin-Ai Hung et al
09-17-2021	What we see and What we dont see: Imputing Occluded Crowd Structures from Robot Sensing by Javad Amirian et al
09-17-2021	Learning to Model the Grasp Space of an Underactuated Robot Gripper Using Variational Autoencoder by Clément Rolinat et al
09-14-2021	Geometric analysis of gaits and optimal control for three-link kinematic swimmers by Oren Wiezel et al
09-14-2021	Designing Multi-Stage Coupled Convex Programming with Data-Driven McCormick Envelope Relaxations for Motion Planning by Xuan Lin et al
09-14-2021	Vision Transformer for Learning Driving Policies in Complex Multi-Agent Environments by Eshagh Kargar et al
09-17-2021	Robust Trajectory Planning for Spatial-Temporal Multi-Drone Coordination in Large Scenes by Zhepei Wang et al
09-15-2021	Delay-aware Robust Control for Safe Autonomous Driving by Dvij Kalaria et al
09-17-2021	DiNNO: Distributed Neural Network Optimization for Multi-Robot Collaborative Learning by Javier Yu et al
09-14-2021	Obstacle Avoidance for Autonomous Mobile Robots Based on Mapping Method by Anh-Tu Nguyen et al
09-16-2021	A Divide-and-Merge Point Cloud Clustering Algorithm for LiDAR Panoptic Segmentation by Yiming Zhao et al
09-14-2021	Large-scale Autonomous Flight with Real-time Semantic SLAM under Dense Forest Canopy by Xu Liu et al
09-16-2021	LoGG3D-Net: Locally Guided Global Descriptor Learning for 3D Place Recognition by Kavisha Vidanapathirana et al
09-15-2021	Expectable Motion Unit: Avoiding Hazards From Human Involuntary Motions in Human-Robot Interaction by Robin Jeanne Kirschner et al
09-14-2021	GRiD: GPU-Accelerated Rigid Body Dynamics with Analytical Gradients by Brian Plancher et al
09-15-2021	S3LAM: Structured Scene SLAM by Mathieu Gonzalez et al
09-14-2021	Safe Nonlinear Control Using Robust Neural Lyapunov-Barrier Functions by Charles Dawson et al
09-16-2021	Fast-Replanning Motion Control with Short-Term Aborting A* by Marcell Missura et al
09-14-2021	Fast and Accurate Extrinsic Calibration for Multiple LiDARs and Cameras by Xiyuan Liu et al
09-15-2021	Back to the Future: Efficient, Time-Consistent Solutions in Reach-Avoid Games by Dennis R. Anthony et al
09-14-2021	Focus on Impact: Indoor Exploration with Intrinsic Motivation by Roberto Bigazzi et al
09-14-2021	Globally-Attractive Logarithmic Geometric Control of a Quadrotor for Aggressive Trajectory Tracking by Jacob Johnson et al
09-15-2021	Recursive Hierarchical Projection for Whole-Body Control with Task Priority Transition by Gang Han et al
09-15-2021	Navigation-Oriented Scene Understanding for Robotic Autonomy: Learning to Segment Driveability in Egocentric Images by Galadrielle Humblot-Renaux et al
09-15-2021	Towards Precise Pruning Points Detection using Semantic-Instance-Aware Plant Models for Grapevine Winter Pruning Automation by Miguel Fernandes et al
09-15-2021	A Framework for Multisensory Foresight for Embodied Agents by Xiaohui Chen et al
09-15-2021	Distributed Swarm Trajectory Optimization for Formation Flight in Dense Environments by Lun Quan et al
09-16-2021	Towards agricultural autonomy: crop row detection under varying field conditions using deep learning by Rajitha de Silva et al
09-16-2021	Meeting-Merging-Mission: A Multi-robot Coordinate Framework for Large-Scale Communication-Limited Exploration by Yuman Gao et al
09-16-2021	Evaluating the Impact of Semantic Segmentation and Pose Estimation on Dense Semantic SLAM by Suman Raj Bista et al
09-15-2021	Fusing Visuo-Tactile Perception into Kernelized Synergies for Robust Grasping and Fine Manipulation of Non-rigid Objects by Sunny Katyara et al