IROS2021PaperList

This repo lists all papers in IROS 2021. We list all papers according their themes alphabetically.

This year the conference received 2801 paper submissions, of which 45% were selected for publication. Each submission was reviewed by at least two reviewers, before receiving a summary report from an Associate Editor and a final report from the Editor. Based on these reviews and reports, the Senior Program Committee and the Program Chair made the final decisions.

• Actuation and Joint Mechanisms
• Aerial Systems: Applications
• Aerial Systems: Mechanics and Control
• Aerial Systems: Perception and Autonomy
• Autonomous Agents
• Autonomous Vehicle Navigation
• Biologically-Inspired Robots
• Brain-Machine Interfaces
• Calibration and Identification
• Cellular and Modular Robots
• Collision Avoidance
• Compliance and Impedance Control
• Compliant Joints and Mechanisms
• Computer Vision Applications
• Computer Vision for Automation
• Computer Vision for Medical Robotics
• Computer Vision for Transportation
• Contact Modeling, Planning and Control
• Control
• Data Sets in Robotics
• Deep Learning Methods
• Deep Learning for Visual Perception
• Deep Learning in Grasping and Manipulation
• Dexterous Manipulation
• Distributed Robot Systems
• Factory Automation
• Field Robots
• Force and Tactile Sensing
• Formal Methods in Robotics and Automation
• Grasping
• Grippers and Other End-Effectors
• Haptics and Haptic Interfaces
• Human Factors and Human-In-The-Loop
• Human and Humanoid Motion Analysis and Synthesis
• Human-Robot Collaboration
• Humanoid Robot Systems
• Humanoid and Bipedal Locomotion
• Imitation Learning
• Intelligent Transportation Systems
• Intention Recognition
• Learning from Demonstration
• Learning from Experience
• Legged Robots
• Localization
• Machine Learning for Robot Control
• Manipulation Planning
• Manufacturing Automation
• Mapping
• Marine Robotics
• Mechanism Design
• Medical Robots and Systems
• Micro/Nano Robots
• Mobile and Bimanual Manipulation
• Model Learning for Control
• Modeling, Control, and Learning for Soft Robots
• Motion Control
• Motion and Path Planning
• Multi-Robot SLAM
• Multi-Robot Systems
• Object Detection, Segmentation and Categorization
• Optimization and Optimal Control
• Parallel Robots
• Path Planning for Multiple Mobile Robots or Agents
• Perception for Grasping and Manipulation
• Perception-Action Coupling
• Physical Human-Robot Interaction
• Planning, Scheduling and Coordination
• Prosthetics and Exoskeletons
• RGB-D Perception
• Range Sensing
• Reactive and Sensor-Based Planning
• Recognition
• Reinforcement Learning
• Representation Learning
• Robot Safety
• Robotic Systems and Benchmarking
• Robotics and Automation in Agriculture and Forestry
• Robotics and Automation in Agriculture, Forestry and Construction
• SLAM
• Semantic Scene Understanding
• Sensor Fusion
• Service, Art and Entertainment Robotics
• Shared Autonomy for Physical Human-Robot Interaction
• Simulation
• Social Human-Robot Interaction
• Soft Robot Applications
• Soft Robot Materials and Design
• Soft Sensors and Actuators
• Software and Hardware
• Space Robotics and Automation
• Surgical Robotics
• Swarm Robotics
• Task and Motion Planning
• Telerobotics and Teleoperation
• Transfer Learning
• Underactuated & Redundant Robots
• Vision-Based Navigation
• Visual Learning
• Visual Servoing
• Visual Tracking
• Visual-Inertial SLAM
• Wearable Robotics
• Wheeled Robots

Actuation and Joint Mechanisms

• Convex Optimization for Spring Design in Series Elastic Actuators: From Theory to Practice
• A Safe and Rapidly Switchable Stiffness Hydrostatic Actuator through Valve-Controlled Air Springs
• Gear Ratio Optimization of a Multifunctional Walker Robot Using Dual-Motor Actuation
• Slip Modeling and Simulation of Spiral Zipper Friction-Driven Prismatic Actuator
• Design and Control of a Novel Compact Nonlinear Rotary Magnetic SEA (MSEA) for Practical Robotic Gripper Implementation
• Passive Orientation Control of Nozzle Unit with Multiple Water Jets to Expand the Net Force Direction Range for Aerial Hose-Type Robots
• Design and Analysis of High Stiffness Hyper-Redundant Manipulator with Sigma-Shaped Wire Path and Rolling Joints
• Multi-Axis Electric Stepper Motor

Aerial Systems: Applications

• Design, Integration and Implementation of an Intelligent and Self-Recharging Drone System for Autonomous Power Line Inspection
• GateNet: An Efficient Deep Neural Network Architecture for Gate Perception Using Fish-Eye Camera in Autonomous Drone Racing
• CCRobot-IV-F: A Ducted-Fan-Driven Flying-Type Bridge Stay Cable Climbing Robot
• REAL: Rapid Exploration with Active Loop-Closing Toward Large-Scale 3D Mapping Using UAVs
• Stability and Robustness Analysis of Plug-Pulling Using an Aerial Manipulator
• A Motion De-Coupled Aerial Robotic Manipulator for Better Inspection
• Dynamic Grasping with a “Soft” Drone: From Theory to Practice
• Hermes - Wind Energy Harvesting Wireless System for Sensing Angle of Attack and Wind Speed
• Toward Battery-Free Flight: Duty Cycled Recharging of Small Drones
• Aggressive Visual Perching with Quadrotors on Inclined Surfaces
• Visibility-Aware Trajectory Optimization with Application to Aerial Tracking
• Gamma-Ray Imaging with Spatially Continuous Intensity Statistics
• 3D Human Reconstruction in the Wild with Collaborative Aerial Cameras
• Non-Prehensile Manipulation of Cuboid Objects Using a Catenary Robot

Aerial Systems: Mechanics and Control

• Autonomous Cooperative Transportation System Involving Multi-Aerial Robots with Variable Attachment Mechanism
• Decentralized Control and Teleoperation of a Multi-UAV Parallel Robot Based on Intrinsic Measurements
• The New Dexterity Omnirotor Platform: Design, Modeling, and Control of a Modular, Versatile, All-Terrain Vehicle
• Design, Optimal Guidance and Control of a Low-Cost Re-Usable Electric Model Rocket
• Efficient Manoeuvring of Quadrotor under Constrained Space and Predefined Accuracy
• Design and Comparison of Tails for Bird-Scale Flapping-Wing Robots
• An Over-Actuated Multi-Rotor Aerial Vehicle with Unconstrained Attitude Angles and High Thrust Efficiencies
• Nullspace-Based Control Allocation of Overactuated UAV Platforms
• Vision-Encoder-Based Payload State Estimation for Autonomous MAV with a Suspended Payload
• Aerodynamic Modeling of Fully-Actuated Multirotor UAVs with Nonparallel Actuators
• Nonlinear Model Predictive Velocity Control of a VTOL Tiltwing UAV
• Dynamic End Effector Tracking with an Omnidirectional Parallel Aerial Manipulator
• Aerial Manipulator Suspended from a Cable-Driven Parallel Robot: Preliminary Experimental Results
• Low-Level Pose Control of Tilting Multirotor for Wall Perching Tasks Using Reinforcement Learning
• The Pursuit and Evasion of Drones Attacking an Automated Turret
• A Morphing Quadrotor That Can Optimize Morphology for Transportation

Aerial Systems: Perception and Autonomy

• Why Fly Blind? Event-Based Visual Guidance for Ornithopter Robot Flight
• Autonomous Flights in Dynamic Environments with Onboard Vision
• Avoiding Dynamic Small Obstacles with Onboard Sensing and Computation on Aerial Robots
• Target-Visible Polynomial Trajectory Generation within an MAV Team
• Multi-Resolution Elevation Mapping and Safe Landing Site Detection with Applications to Planetary Rotorcraft
• On the Visual-Based Safe Landing of UAVs in Populated Areas: A Crucial Aspect for Urban Deployment
• Autonomous Quadrotor Landing on Inclined Surfaces Using Perception-Guided Active Asymmetric Skids
• FAST-Dynamic-Vision: Detection and Tracking Dynamic Objects with Event and Depth Sensing
• DarkLighter: Light up the Darkness for UAV Tracking
• SiamAPN++: Siamese Attentional Aggregation Network for Real-Time UAV Tracking
• An Optical Spatial Localization System for Tracking Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Using a Single Dynamic Vision Sensor
• Semantic-Aware Active Perception for UAVs Using Deep Reinforcement Learning
• Real-Time Ellipse Detection for Robotics Applications
• Topology-Guided Path Planning for Reliable Visual Navigation of MAVs
• Semantically Informed Next Best View Planning for Autonomous Aerial 3D Reconstruction

Autonomous Agents

• Fast Autonomous Robotic Exploration Using the Underlying Graph Structure
• A High-Accuracy Framework for Vehicle Dynamic Modeling in Autonomous Driving
• Monitoring Object Detection Abnormalities Via Data-Label and Post-Algorithm Abstractions
• Agent-Aware State Estimation for Autonomous Vehicles
• Designing and Deploying a Mobile UVC Disinfection Robot
• The Reasonable Crowd: Towards Evidence-Based and Interpretable Models of Driving Behavior
• Mobile Manipulation-Based Deployment of Micro Aerial Robot Scouts through Constricted Aperture-Like Ingress Points

Autonomous Vehicle Navigation

• Gaussian Process-Based Interpretable Runtime Adaptation for Safe Autonomous Systems Operations in Unstructured Environments
• Latent Attention Augmentation for Robust Autonomous Driving Policies
• The Role of the Hercules Autonomous Vehicle During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Autonomous Logistic Vehicle for Contactless Goods Transportation (I)
• From Agile Ground to Aerial Navigation: Learning from Learned Hallucination
• Robust Policy Search for an Agile Ground Vehicle under Perception Uncertainty
• Road Graphical Neural Networks for Autonomous Roundabout Driving
• Monitoring and Diagnosability of Perception Systems
• On Fault Classification in Connected Autonomous Vehicles Using Output-Only Measurements
• Autonomous Drone Racing with Deep Reinforcement Learning
• Connecting Deep-Reinforcement-Learning-Based Obstacle Avoidance with Conventional Global Planners Using Waypoint Generators
• A Kinematic Model for Trajectory Prediction in General Highway Scenarios
• Unsupervised Traffic Scene Generation with Synthetic 3D Scene Graphs
• Minimizing Safety Interference for Safe and Comfortable Automated Driving with Distributional Reinforcement Learning
• Autonomous Vehicle Navigation in Semi-Structured Environments Based on Sparse Waypoints and LiDAR Road-Tracking
• Deep Semantic Segmentation at the Edge for Autonomous Navigation in Vineyard Rows
• Exploration-RRT: A Multi-Objective Path Planning and Exploration Framework for Unknown and Unstructured Environments
• Learning Inverse Kinodynamics for Accurate High-Speed Off-Road Navigation on Unstructured Terrain
• Pallet Detection and Docking Strategy for Autonomous Pallet Truck AGV Operation
• Vulnerability of Connected Autonomous Vehicles Networks to Periodic Time-Varying Communication Delays of Certain Frequency
• LiDAR Degradation Quantification for Autonomous Driving in Rain
• Map-Aided Train Navigation with IMU Measurements
• Evaluation of Long-Term LiDAR Place Recognition
• KB-Tree: Learnable and Continuous Monte-Carlo Tree Search for Autonomous Driving Planning
• Autonomous Mobile Robot Navigation Independent of Road Boundary Using Driving Recommendation Map
• Learning-Based 3D Occupancy Prediction for Autonomous Navigation in Occluded Environments
• Cooperative Autonomous Vehicles That Sympathize with Human Drivers
• Shape Estimation of Negative Obstacles for Autonomous Navigation
• Reinforcement Learning Based Negotiation-Aware Motion Planning of Autonomous Vehicles
• Interaction-Based Trajectory Prediction Over a Hybrid Traffic Graph
• Robust LiDAR Localization on an HD Vector Map without a Separate Localization Layer
• Radar Odometry on SE(3) with Constant Velocity Motion Prior
• AVP-Loc: Surround View Localization and Relocalization Based on HD Vector Map for Automated Valet Parking
• Map Compressibility Assessment for LiDAR Registration
• Online High-Level Model Estimation for Efficient Hierarchical Robot Navigation
• Disentangling and Vectorization: A 3D Visual Perception Approach for Autonomous Driving Based on Surround-View Fisheye Cameras
• Context and Orientation Aware Path Tracking

Biologically-Inspired Robots

• Water Surface Stability Prediction of Amphibious Bio-Inspired Undulatory Fin Robot
• Quasi-Static Motion of a New Serial Snake-Like Robot on a Water Surface: A Geometrical Approach
• Simulating Ocean Wave Movement in a Soft Pneumatic Surface
• Microspine-Rubber Composite for High Friction on Smooth, Rough, and Wet Surfaces
• Wing Fold and Twist Greatly Improves Flight Efficiency for Bat-Scale Flapping Wing Robots
• Development of a Bio-Inspired Soft Robotic Gripper Based on Tensegrity Structures
• A Real-Time Motion Detection and Object Tracking Framework for Future Robot-Rat Interaction
• Marine Autonomous Navigation for Biomimetic Underwater Robots Based on Deep Stereo Attention Network
• Bat Bot 2.0: Bio-Inspired Anisotropic Skin, Passive Wrist Joints, and Redesigned Flapping Mechanism
• Evolving Infotaxis for Meandering Environments
• A Method to Use Nonlinear Dynamics in a Whisker Sensor for Terrain Identification by Mobile Robots
• Robust Top-Down and Bottom-Up Visual Saliency for Mobile Robots Using Bio-Inspired Design Principles
• Design of Galloping Robots with Elastic Spine: Tracking Relations between Dynamic Model Parameters Based on Motion Analysis of a Real Cheetah
• Autonomous Decision Making in a Bioinspired Adaptive Robotic Anchoring Module
• Design and Experimental Learning of Swimming Gaits for a Magnetic, Modular, Undulatory Robot
• SENSORIMOTOR GRAPH: Action-Conditioned Graph Neural Network for Learning Robotic Soft Hand Dynamics
• Insect-Inspired Odor Intake Method for Chemical Plume Tracing in an Outdoor Environment
• Lateral Undulation of the Bendable Body of a Gecko-Inspired Robot for Energy-Efficient Inclined Surface Climbing
• Crawl and Fly: A Bio-Inspired Robot Utilizing Unified Actuation for Hybrid Aerial-Terrestrial Locomotion
• A Decentralized Bayesian Approach for Snake Robot Control
• Hoop-Passing Motion for a Snake Robot to Realize Motion Transition across Different Environments (I)
• Enabling Dynamic Behaviors with Aerodynamic Drag in Lightweight Tails (I)

Brain-Machine Interfaces

• Design of an SSVEP-Based BCI Stimuli System for Attention-Based Robot Navigation in Robotic Telepresence
• An Assistive Shared Control Architecture for a Robotic Arm Using EEG-Based BCI with Motor Imagery
• A Wearable, Open-Source, Lightweight Forcemyography Armband: On Intuitive, Robust Muscle-Machine Interfaces
• Manifold Trial Selection to Reduce Negative Transfer in Motor Imagery-Based Brain–Computer Interface
• Neurointerface Implemented with Oscillator Motifs
• Hybrid Graph Convolutional Neural Networks for Skeleton-Based and EEG-Based Lower Limb Action Recognition
• Affect-Driven Robot Behavior Learning System Using EEG Signals for Less Negative Feelings and More Positive Outcomes

Calibration and Identification

• SemAlign: Annotation-Free Camera-LiDAR Calibration with Semantic Alignment Loss
• Kalibrot: A Simple-To-Use Matlab Package for Robot Kinematic Calibration
• Odometry Model Calibration for Self-Driving Vehicles with Noise Correction
• Pixel-Level Extrinsic Self Calibration of High Resolution LiDAR and Camera in Targetless Environments
• A Two-Step Optimization for Extrinsic Calibration of Multiple Camera System (MCS) Using Depth-Weighted Normalized Points
• Learning to Calibrate - Estimating the Hand-Eye Transformation without Calibration Objects
• Single-Shot Is Enough: Panoramic Infrastructure Based Calibration of Multiple Cameras and 3D LiDARs
• Kinodynamic Model Identification: A Unified Geometric Approach (I)

Cellular and Modular Robots

• Reconfiguring Metamorphic Robots Via SMT: Is It a Viable Way?
• Balloon Animal Robots: Reconfigurable Isoperimetric Inflated Soft Robots
• Self-Reconfiguration of Modular Robots Using Virtual Forces
• CPG-Based Hierarchical Locomotion Control for Modular Quadrupedal Robots Using Deep Reinforcement Learning
• Reconfiguring Non-Convex Holes in Pivoting Modular Cube Robots
• Finding Structure Configurations for Flying Modular Robots
• Enumeration of Polyominoes & Polycubes Composed of Magnetic Cubes

Collision Avoidance

• V-RVO: Decentralized Multi-Agent Collision Avoidance Using Voronoi Diagrams and Reciprocal Velocity Obstacles
• Human-Inspired Multi-Agent Navigation Using Knowledge Distillation
• Trajectory Splitting: A Distributed Formulation for Collision Avoiding Trajectory Optimization
• Potential Gap: A Gap-Informed Reactive Policy for Safe Hierarchical Navigation
• Comparative Analysis of Control Barrier Functions and Artificial Potential Fields for Obstacle Avoidance
• DRQN-Based 3D Obstacle Avoidance with a Limited Field of View
• Crowd-Aware Robot Navigation for Pedestrians with Multiple Collision Avoidance Strategies Via Map-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning
• A Scalable Distributed Collision Avoidance Scheme for Multi-Agent UAV Systems
• Trust Your Supervisor: Quadrotor Obstacle Avoidance Using Controlled Invariant Sets
• Decentralized Multi-Robot Collision Avoidance in Complex Scenarios with Selective Communication
• Toward Observation Based Least Restrictive Collision Avoidance Using Deep Meta Reinforcement Learning
• Image-Based Online Command Adaptation and Guidance to Arbitrarily Shaped Objects for Robot-Assisted Medical Procedures
• Continuous-Time Gaussian Process Trajectory Generation for Multi-Robot Formation Via Probabilistic Inference
• Learning to Navigate in a VUCA Environment: Hierarchical Multi-Expert Approach
• A Vision-Based Irregular Obstacle Avoidance Framework Via Deep Reinforcement Learning

Compliance and Impedance Control

• Circumventing Conceptual Flaws in Classical Interaction Control Strategies
• Human Guided Trajectory and Impedance Adaptation for Tele-Operated Physical Assistance
• Impedance Control for a Flexible Robot Enhanced with Energy Tanks in the Port-Hamiltonian Framework
• Multi-Stage Energy-Aware Motion Control with Exteroception-Defined Dynamic Safety Metric
• Online Impedance Adaptation Facilitates Manipulating a Whip
• Analyzing the Performance Limits of Articulated Soft Robots Based on the ESPi Framework: Applications to Damping and Impedance Control
• Adjustable Compliance and Force Feedback As Key Elements for Stable and Efficient Hopping
• A Unified Approach for Virtual Fixtures and Goal-Driven Variable Admittance Control in Manual Guidance Applications

Compliant Joints and Mechanisms

• A Self-Biasing Shape Memory Alloy Gripper for Lightweight Applications
• A Compliant Five-Bar Legged Mechanism for Heavy-Load Legged Robots by Using Magneto-Rheological Actuators
• Parallel Variable Stiffness Actuators
• Novel Variable Stiffness Spring Mechanism: Modulating Stiffness Independent of the Energy Stored by the Spring
• Self-Sensing McKibben Artificial Muscles Embedded with Dielectric Elastomer Sensor
• An Analysis on the Modeling Accuracy of Industrial Manipulators with Inherent Joint Elasticity
• Design and Analysis of a Twisted Elastic-Rail Actuator Based on a Double-Stranded Helix Structure

Computer Vision Applications

• Using Depth Vision for Terrain Detection During Active Locomotion
• Robust and Accurate Point Set Registration with Generalized Bayesian Coherent Point Drift
• Localization and Control of Magnetic Suture Needles in Cluttered Surgical Site with Blood and Tissue
• LaneRCNN: Distributed Representations for Graph-Centric Motion Forecasting
• StereoCNC: A Stereovision-Guided Robotic Laser System
• Direct Bundle Adjustment for 3D Image Fusion with Application to Transesophageal Echocardiography
• EOMVS: Event-Based Omnidirectional Multi-View Stereo

Computer Vision for Automation

• Through the Looking Glass: Diminishing Occlusions in Robot Vision Systems with Mirror Reflections
• Similarity-Aware Fusion Network for 3D Semantic Segmentation
• RoRD: Rotation-Robust Descriptors and Orthographic Views for Local Feature Matching
• Refractive Light-Field Features for Curved Transparent Objects in Structure from Motion
• SRH-Net: Stacked Recurrent Hourglass Network for Stereo Matching
• Phase-SLAM: Mobile Structured Light Illumination for Full Body 3D Scanning
• Robotic Waste Sorting Technology: Toward a Vision-Based Categorization System for the Industrial Robotic Separation of Recyclable Waste (I)

Computer Vision for Medical Robotics

• MBAPose: Mask and Bounding-Box Aware Pose Estimation of Surgical Instruments with Photorealistic Domain Randomization
• Domain Adaptive Robotic Gesture Recognition with Unsupervised Kinematic-Visual Data Alignment
• Towards a Compact Vision-Based Auto-Focusing System for Endoscopic Laser Surgery
• Autonomous Scanning Target Localization for Robotic Lung Ultrasound Imaging
• Semi-Supervised Vein Segmentation of Ultrasound Images for Autonomous Venipuncture
• IVUS-Based Local Vessel Estimation for Robotic Intravascular Navigation
• Surgical Tool Segmentation Using Generative Adversarial Networks with Unpaired Training Data
• Real-Time 3D Navigation-Based Semi-Automatic Surgical Robotic System for Pelvic Fracture Reduction

Computer Vision for Transportation

• Unsupervised Vehicle Re-Identification Via Self-Supervised Metric Learning Using Feature Dictionary
• Monocular 3D Vehicle Detection Using Uncalibrated Traffic Cameras through Homography
• Drive on Pedestrian Walk. TUK Campus Dataset
• Stereo Waterdrop Removal with Row-Wise Dilated Attention
• Temporally-Continuous Probabilistic Prediction Using Polynomial Trajectory Parameterization
• Content Disentanglement for Semantically Consistent Synthetic-To-Real Domain Adaptation
• Cross-Modal 3D Object Detection and Tracking for Auto-Driving

Contact Modeling, Planning and Control

• Contact Tracing: A Low Cost Reconstruction Framework for Surface Contact Interpolation
• Real-Time Physically-Accurate Simulation of Robotic Snap Connection Process
• Fundamental Challenges in Deep Learning for Stiff Contact Dynamics
• Multi-Contact Locomotion Planning with Bilateral Contact Forces Considering Kinematics and Statics During Contact Transition
• Computationally Efficient HQP-Based Whole-Body Control Exploiting the Operational-Space Formulation
• Towards an Online Framework for Changing-Contact Robot Manipulation Tasks
• Experimental Verification of Stability Theory for a Planar Rigid Body with Two Unilateral Frictional Contacts (I)

Control

• Sensor Fusion-Based Anthropomorphic Control of Under-Actuated Bionic Hand in Dynamic Environment
• Model-Based Trajectory Prediction and Hitting Velocity Control for a New Table Tennis Robot
• Active Exploration and Mapping Via Iterative Covariance Regulation Over Continuous SE(3) Trajectories
• Modeling and Control of PANTHERA Self-Reconfigurable Pavement Sweeping Robot under Actuator Constraints
• Coloured Petri Nets for Monitoring Human Actions in Flexible Human-Robot Teams
• Adaptive Passivity-Based Multi-Task Tracking Control for Robotic Manipulators
• Amplification of Clamping Mechanism Using Internally-Balanced Magnetic Unit
• Distributed Tube-Based Nonlinear MPC for Motion Control of Skid-Steer Robots with Terra-Mechanical Constraints

Data Sets in Robotics

• Let's Play for Action: Recognizing Activities of Daily Living by Learning from Life Simulation Video Games
• The Radar Ghost Dataset – an Evaluation of Ghost Objects in Automotive Radar Data
• ChangeSim: Towards End-To-End Online Scene Change Detection in Industrial Indoor Environments
• Indoor Future Person Localization from an Egocentric Wearable Camera
• Grounding Linguistic Commands to Navigable Regions
• TUM-VIE: The TUM Stereo Visual-Inertial Event Dataset
• Diverse Complexity Measures for Dataset Curation in Self-Driving
• A Dataset for Provident Vehicle Detection at Night
• Stereo Hybrid Event-Frame (SHEF) Cameras for 3D Perception
• A Photorealistic Terrain Simulation Pipeline for Unstructured Outdoor Environments
• NYU-VPR: Long-Term Visual Place Recognition Benchmark with View Direction and Data Anonymization Influences
• Topo-Boundary: A Benchmark Dataset on Topological Road-Boundary Detection Using Aerial Images for Autonomous Driving
• ROBI: A Multi-View Dataset for Reflective Objects in Robotic Bin-Picking
• A Large-Scale Dataset for Water Segmentation of SAR Satellite
• ESPADA: Extended Synthetic and Photogrammetric Aerial-Image Dataset

Deep Learning Methods

• Adversarial Training on Point Clouds for Sim-To-Real 3D Object Detection
• CrossMap Transformer: A Crossmodal Masked Path TransformerUsing Double Back-Translation for Vision-And-Language Navigation
• Case Relation Transformer: A Crossmodal Language Generation Model for Fetching Instructions
• Target-Dependent UNITER: A Transformer-Based Multimodal Language Comprehension Model for Domestic Service Robots
• Self-Critical Learning of Influencing Factors for Trajectory Prediction Using Gated Graph Convolutional Network
• Trajectory Generation in New Environments from past Experiences
• DistillPose: Lightweight Camera Localization Using Auxiliary Learning
• Identifying Valid Robot Configurations Via a Deep Learning Approach
• DiGNet: Learning Scalable Self-Driving Policies for Generic Traffic Scenarios with Graph Neural Networks
• A General Approach to State Refinement
• StyleLess Layer: Improving Robustness for Real-World Driving
• Annotation Cost Reduction of Stream-Based Active Learning by Automated Weak Labeling Using a Robot Arm
• Comprehension of Spatial Constraints by Neural Logic Learning from a Single RGB-D Scan
• A CNN Based Vision-Proprioception Fusion Method for Robust UGV Terrain Classification
• Visual-Tactile Cross-Modal Data Generation Using Residue-Fusion GAN with Feature-Matching and Perceptual Losses

Deep Learning for Visual Perception

• Geometry Guided Network for Point Cloud Registration
• Graph Guided Deformation for Point Cloud Completion
• Uncertainty-Aware Self-Supervised Learning of Spatial Perception Tasks
• ADAADepth: Adapting Data Augmentation and Attention for Self-Supervised Monocular Depth Estimation
• Unsupervised Image Segmentation by Mutual Information Maximization and Adversarial Regularization
• MLPD: Multi-Label Pedestrian Detector in Multispectral Domain
• Unsupervised Learning of Depth Estimation and Visual Odometry for Sparse Light Field Cameras
• EVReflex: Dense Time-To-Impact Prediction for Event-Based Obstacle Avoidance
• PTT: Point-Track-Transformer Module for 3D Single Object Tracking in Point Clouds
• A Registration-Aided Domain Adaptation Network for 3D Point Cloud Based Place Recognition
• INeRF: Inverting Neural Radiance Fields for Pose Estimation
• RaP-Net: A Region-Wise and Point-Wise Weighting Network to Extract Robust Features for Indoor Localization
• Differentiable Factor Graph Optimization for Learning Smoothers
• Attention Augmented ConvLSTM for Environment Prediction
• Overcoming Obstructions Via Bandwidth-Limited Multi-Agent Spatial Handshaking
• Scene Descriptor Expressing Ambiguity in Information Recovery Based on Incomplete Partial Observation
• Bootstrapped Self-Supervised Training with Monocular Video for Semantic Segmentation and Depth Estimation
• Automatic Learning System for Object Function Points from Random Shape Generation and Physical Validation
• Fast Image-Anomaly Mitigation for Autonomous Mobile Robots
• Visual Identification of Articulated Object Parts
• Unsupervised Monocular Depth Learning with Integrated Intrinsics and Spatio-Temporal Constraints
• ViNet: Pushing the Limits of Visual Modality for Audio-Visual Saliency Prediction
• MDN-VO: Estimating Visual Odometry with Confidence
• Unsupervised Deep Persistent Monocular Visual Odometry and Depth Estimation in Extreme Environments
• Correlate-And-Excite: Real-Time Stereo Matching Via Guided Cost Volume Excitation
• Improving Robot Localisation by Ignoring Visual Distraction
• Semantic Segmentation-Assisted Scene Completion for LiDAR Point Clouds
• Dynamic Domain Adaptation for Single-View 3D Reconstruction
• You Only Group Once: Efficient Point-Cloud Processing with Token Representation and Relation Inference Module
• VIPose: Real-Time Visual-Inertial 6D Object Pose Tracking
• Using Visual Anomaly Detection for Task Execution Monitoring
• Moving SLAM: Fully Unsupervised Deep Learning in Non-Rigid Scenes
• Pose Estimation from RGB Images of Highly Symmetric Objects Using a Novel Multi-Pose Loss and Differential Rendering
• Denoising 3D Human Poses from Low-Resolution Video Using Variational Autoencoder
• KDFNet: Learning Keypoint Distance Field for 6D Object Pose Estimation
• All Characteristics Preservation: Single Image Dehazing Based on Hierarchical Detail Reconstruction Wavelet Decomposition Network
• PCTMA-Net: Point Cloud Transformer with Morphing Atlas-Based Point Generation Network for Dense Point Cloud Completion
• Superline: A Robust Line Segment Feature for Visual SLAM
• ORStereo: Occlusion-Aware Recurrent Stereo Matching for 4K-Resolution Images
• Model Adaptation through Hypothesis Transfer with Gradual Knowledge Distillation
• VoluMon: Weakly Supervised Volumetric Monocular Estimation with Ellipsoid Representations
• Cross-Modal Representation Learning for Lightweight and Accurate Facial Action Unit Detection
• Stereo Matching by Self-Supervision of Multiscopic Vision

Deep Learning in Grasping and Manipulation

• Simultaneous Semantic and Collision Learning for 6-DoF Grasp Pose Estimation
• Efficient Learning of Goal-Oriented Push-Grasping Synergy in Clutter
• Iterative Coarse-To-Fine 6D-Pose Estimation Using Back-Propagation
• Understanding Human Manipulation with the Environment: A Novel Taxonomy for Video Labelling
• Excavation Learning for Rigid Objects in Clutter
• Fast-Learning Grasping and Pre-Grasping Via Clutter Quantization and Q-Map Masking
• Joint Space Control Via Deep Reinforcement Learning
• Precise Object Placement with Pose Distance Estimations for Different Objects and Grippers
• Learning to Detect Multi-Modal Grasps for Dexterous Grasping in Dense Clutter
• Double-Dot Network for Antipodal Grasp Detection
• Neural Motion Prediction for In-Flight Uneven Object Catching
• Learning a Generative Transition Model for Uncertainty-Aware Robotic Manipulation
• Occlusion-Aware Search for Object Retrieval in Clutter
• Grasp Pose Detection from a Single RGB Image
• DepthGrasp: Depth Completion of Transparent Objects Using Self-Attentive Adversarial Network with Spectral Residual for Grasping
• Reactive Long Horizon Task Execution Via Visual Skill and Precondition Models
• Efficient and Accurate Candidate Generation for Grasp Pose Detection in SE(3)
• DemoGrasp: Few-Shot Learning for Robotic Grasping with Human Demonstration
• Graph-Based Task-Specific Prediction Models for Interactions between Deformable and Rigid Objects
• GhostPose*: Multi-View Pose Estimation of Transparent Objects for Robot Hand Grasping
• Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Based Object Manipulation with Non-Parametric Policy and Action Primitives

Dexterous Manipulation

• Casting Manipulation of Unknown String by Robot Arm
• Deformation Control of a Deformable Object Based on Visual and Tactile Feedback
• A Soft Robotic Gripper with an Active Palm and Reconfigurable Fingers for Fully Dexterous In-Hand Manipulation
• The Stewart Hand: A Highly Dexterous 6-Degrees-Of-Freedom Manipulator Based on the Stewart-Gough Platform (I)
• Real-Time Safety and Control of Robotic Manipulators with Torque Saturation in Operational Space
• Robot Hand Based on a Spherical Parallel Mechanism for Within-Hand Rotations about a Fixed Point
• Learning Compliant Grasping and Manipulation by Teleoperation with Adaptive Force Control

Distributed Robot Systems

• Optimal Scheduling and Non-Cooperative Distributed Model Predictive Control for Multiple Robotic Manipulators
• OneVision: Centralized to Distributed Controller Synthesis with Delay Compensation
• Robofleet: Open Source Communication and Management for Fleets of Autonomous Robots
• Learning Connectivity for Data Distribution in Robot Teams
• Neural Tree Expansion for Multi-Robot Planning in Non-Cooperative Environments
• Deadlock Prediction and Recovery for Distributed Collision Avoidance with Buffered Voronoi Cells
• Scalable Distributed Planning for Multi-Robot, Multi-Target Tracking

Factory Automation

• State Estimation and Model-Predictive Control for Multi-Robot Handling and Tracking of AGV Motions Using IGPS
• Benchmarking Off-The-Shelf Solutions to Robotic Assembly Tasks
• Assembly Sequence Generation for New Objects Via Experience Learned from Similar Object
• Combining Learning from Demonstration with Learning by Exploration to Facilitate Contact-Rich Tasks
• Learn to Differ: Sim2Real Small Defection Segmentation Network
• Control Strategy for Jam and Wedge-Free 3D Precision Insertion of Heavy Objects Suspended with a Multi-Cable Crane
• Combining Unsupervised Muscle Co-Contraction Estimation with Bio-Feedback Allows Augmented Kinesthetic Teaching

Field Robots

• 3D Reactive Control and Frontier-Based Exploration for Unstructured Environments
• Adaptive Terrain Traversability Prediction Based on Multi-Source Transfer Gaussian Processes
• Multiclass Terrain Classification Using Sound and Vibration from Mobile Robot Terrain Interaction
• Perceptive Autonomous Stair Climbing for Quadrupedal Robots
• Trajectory Selection for Power-Over-Tether Atmospheric Sensing UAS
• CCRobot-IV: An Obstacle-Free Split-Type Quad-Ducted Propeller-Driven Bridge Stay Cable-Climbing Robot
• An Industrial Robot for Firewater Piping Inspection and Mapping
• A Mixed Reality Supervision and Telepresence Interface for Outdoor Field Robotics

Force and Tactile Sensing

• A Soft Somesthetic Robotic Finger Based on Conductive Working Liquid and an Origami Structure
• Extended Tactile Perception: Vibration Sensing through Tools and Grasped Objects
• AuraSense: Robot Collision Avoidance by Full Surface Proximity Detection
• A Low-Cost Modular System of Customizable, Versatile, and Flexible Tactile Sensor Arrays
• Self-Contained Kinematic Calibration of a Novel Whole-Body Artificial Skin for Human-Robot Collaboration
• A Multi-Chamber Smart Suction Cup for Adaptive Gripping and Haptic Exploration
• A Multi-Axis FBG-Based Tactile Sensor for Gripping in Space
• Active Visuo-Tactile Point Cloud Registration for Accurate Pose Estimation of Objects in an Unknown Workspace
• High Dynamic Range 6-Axis Force Sensor Employing a Semiconductor-Metallic Foil Strain Gauge Combination
• Tactile Scanning for Detecting Micro Bump by Strain-Sensitive Artificial Skin
• A Force Recognition System for Distinguishing Click Responses of Various Objects
• A Robust Controller for Stable 3D Pinching Using Tactile Sensing
• Dynamic Modeling of Hand-Object Interactions Via Tactile Sensing
• A Local Filtering Technique for Robot Skin Data
• Energy Generating Electronic Skin with Intrinsic Tactile Sensing without Touch Sensors (I)

Formal Methods in Robotics and Automation

• Sensor Selection for Detecting Deviations from a Planned Itinerary
• Autonomous Decision-Making with Incomplete Information and Safety Rules Based on Non-Monotonic Reasoning
• Automata-Based Optimal Planning with Relaxed Specifications
• Probabilistically Guaranteed Satisfaction of Temporal Logic Constraints During Reinforcement Learning
• Learning from Demonstrations Using Signal Temporal Logic in Stochastic and Continuous Domains
• Attainment Regions in Feature-Parameter Space for High-Level Debugging in Autonomous Robots
• A Topological Approach to Finding Coarsely Diverse Paths
• Probabilistic Specification Learning for Planning with Safety Constraints
• Modular Deep Reinforcement Learning for Continuous Motion Planning with Temporal Logic
• Safe Linear Temporal Logic Motion Planning in Dynamic Environments
• Decentralized Classification with Assume-Guarantee Planning
• Wasserstein-Splitting Gaussian Process Regression for Heterogeneous Online Bayesian Inference
• Formalizing the Execution Context of Behavior Trees for Runtime Verification of Deliberative Policies
• Probabilistic Trajectory Prediction with Structural Constraints
• Formalizing Trajectories in Human-Robot Encounters Via Probabilistic STL Inference
• Convex Approximation for LTL-Based Planning

Grasping

• Temporal Force Synergies in Human Grasping
• Trajectory-Based Split Hindsight Reverse Curriculum Learning
• Detecting Grasp Phases and Adaption of Object-Hand Interaction Forces of a Soft Humanoid Hand Based on Tactile Feedback
• SpectGRASP: Robotic Grasping by Spectral Correlation
• Assessing Grasp Quality Using Local Sensitivity Analysis
• Geometry-Based Grasping Pipeline for Bi-Modal Pick and Place
• Computing a Task-Dependent Grasp Metric Using Second-Order Cone Programs
• Multi-Object Grasping -- Estimating the Number of Objects in a Robotic Grasp
• PackerBot: Variable-Sized Product Packing with Heuristic Deep Reinforcement Learning
• Geometric Characterization of the Planar Multi-Finger Equilibrium Grasps
• Formulation and Validation of an Intuitive Quality Measure for Antipodal Grasp Pose Evaluation
• Scooping Manipulation Via Motion Control with a Two-Fingered Gripper and Its Application to Bin Picking
• DDGC: Generative Deep Dexterous Grasping in Clutter
• Planning Grasps with Suction Cups and Parallel Grippers Using Superimposed Segmentation of Object Meshes (I)

Grippers and Other End-Effectors

• A Three-Fingered Adaptive Gripper with Multiple Grasping Modes
• Dexterous Textile Manipulation Using Electroadhesive Fingers
• A Series Elastic, Compact Differential Mechanism: On the Development of Adaptive, Lightweight Robotic Grippers and Hands
• Computational Design of Reconfigurable Underactuated Linkages for Adaptive Grippers
• A Multi-Modal Robotic Gripper with a Reconfigurable Base: Improving Dexterous Manipulation without Compromising Grasping Efficiency
• Grasping with Embedded Synergies through a Reconfigurable Electric Actuation Topology
• An Under-Actuated Whippletree Mechanism Gripper Based on Multi-Objective Design Optimization with Auto-Tuned Weights
• A Caging Inspired Gripper Using Flexible Fingers and a Movable Palm
• The Role of Digit Arrangement in Soft Robotic In-Hand Manipulation
• A Dexterous, Reconfigurable Robot Hand Combining Anthropomorphic and Interdigitated Configurations
• A Computational Framework for Robot Hand Design Via Reinforcement Learning
• Variable-Grasping-Mode Gripper with Different Finger Structures for Grasping Small-Sized Items
• Force Control with Friction Compensation in a Pneumatic Gripper
• Analysis of Fingertip Force Vector for Pinch-Lifting Gripper with Robust Adaptation to Environments (I)

Haptics and Haptic Interfaces

• Design and Validation of a Smartphone-Based Haptic Feedback System for Gait Training
• Robotic Guidance System for Visually Impaired Users Running Outdoors Using Haptic Feedback
• Variable Stiffness Folding Joints for Haptic Feedback
• Can a Vibrotactile Stimulation on Fingertips Make an Illusion of Elbow Joint Movement?
• Two-Stage Optimization of a Reconfigurable Asymmetric 6-DOF Haptic Robot for Task-Specific Workspace
• Stable Haptic Teleoperation of UAVs Via Small L2 Gain and Control Barrier Functions
• A Novel Testbed for Investigating the Impact of Teleoperator Dynamics on Perceived Environment Dynamics

Human Factors and Human-In-The-Loop

• Effect of Display Response Time on Brain Activity in Human–Machine Interface Commander Operation
• Improving Driver Situation Awareness Prediction Using Human Visual Sensory and Memory Mechanism
• Asking the Right Questions: Facilitating Semantic Constraint Specification for Robot Skill Learning and Repair
• Using Bayesian Optimization to Identify Optimal Exoskeleton Parameters Targeting Propulsion Mechanics: A Simulation Study
• What Information Should a Robot Convey?
• Not All Users Are the Same: Providing Personalized Explanations for Sequential Decision Making Problems
• Online Recognition of Bimanual Coordination Provides Important Context for Movement Data in Bimanual Teleoperated Robots
• Iterative Program Synthesis for Adaptable Social Navigation

Human and Humanoid Motion Analysis and Synthesis

• Multitask Variational Autoencoding of Human-To-Human Object Handover
• Synergetic Gait Prediction for Stroke Rehabilitation with Varying Walking Speeds
• Organization and Understanding of a Tactile Information Dataset TacAct for Physical Human-Robot Interactions
• Towards Human Haptic Gesture Interpretation for Robotic Systems
• State Estimation of a Partially Observable Multi-Link System with No Joint Encoders Incorporating External Dead-Reckoning
• Computationally Affordable Hierarchical Framework for Humanoid Robot Control
• Domain and View-Point Agnostic Hand Action Recognition

Human-Robot Collaboration

• Online Verification of Impact-Force-Limiting Control for Physical Human-Robot Interaction
• Dual-Filtering for On-Line Simultaneously Estimate Weights and Phase Parameter of Probabilistic Movement Primitives for Human-Robot Collaboration
• Sampling-Based Inverse Reinforcement Learning Algorithms with Safety Constraints
• Radar Based Target Tracking and Classification for Efficient Robot Speed Control in Fenceless Environments
• “Safe Skin” - a Low-Cost Capacitive Proximity-Force-Fusion Sensor for Safety in Robots
• Real-Time Obstacle Avoidance Using Dual-Type Proximity Sensor for Safe Human-Robot Interaction
• Human-Robot Collaboration: Optimizing Stress and Productivity Based on Game Theory
• Learning to Share Autonomy across Repeated Interaction
• Cooperative Assistance in Robotic Surgery through Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
• Improving Competence Via Iterative State Space Refinement
• An Analysis of Human-Robot Information Streams to Inform Dynamic Autonomy Allocation
• Extending Referring Expression Generation through Shared Knowledge about past Human-Robot Collaborative Activity
• Learning and Interactive Design of Shared Control Templates
• A Safety-Aware Architecture for Task Scheduling and Execution for Human-Robot Collaboration
• Human-Robot Collaboration for Heavy Object Manipulation: Kinesthetic Teaching of the Role of Wheeled Mobile Manipulator
• Non-Local Graph Convolutional Network for Joint Prediction of Activity Recognition and Future Motion
• PiPo-Net: A Semi-Automatic and Polygon-Based Annotation Method for Pathological Images
• Multi-Scenario Contacts Handling for Collaborative Robots Applications
• Generating Active Explicable Plans in Human-Robot Teaming
• Telemanipulation Via Virtual Reality Interfaces with Enhanced Environment Models
• A Transformable Human-Carrying Wheel–leg Mobility for Daily Use
• Probabilistic Decision Model for Adaptive Task Planning in Human-Robot Collaborative Assembly Based on Designer and Operator Intents

Humanoid Robot Systems

• Dynamical Effect of Elastically Supported Wobbling Mass on Biped Running
• Dynamic Fall Recovery Motion Generation on Biped Robot with Shell Protector
• Human Trajectory Prediction Model and Its Coupling with a Walking Pattern Generator of a Humanoid Robot
• Communicative Learning with Natural Gestures for Embodied Navigation Agents with Human-In-The-Scene
• The ARoA Platform: An Autonomous Robotic Assistant with a Reconfigurable Torso System and Dexterous Manipulation Capabilities
• Dynamic Humanoid Locomotion Over Rough Terrain with Streamlined Perception-Control Pipeline
• Drop Prevention Control for Humanoid Robots Carrying Stacked Boxes

Humanoid and Bipedal Locomotion

• Fast Online Planning for Bipedal Locomotion Via Centroidal Model Predictive Gait Synthesis
• Knee-Stretched Biped Gait Generation Along Spatially Quantized Curves
• Humanoid Loco-Manipulations Pattern Generation and Stabilization Control
• Robust Feedback Motion Policy Design Using Reinforcement Learning on a 3D Digit Bipedal Robot
• Learning When to Switch: Composing Controllers to Traverse a Sequence of Terrain Artifacts
• Impact Invariant Control with Applications to Bipedal Locomotion
• Learning Linear Policies for Robust Bipedal Locomotion on Terrains with Varying Slopes

Imitation Learning

• Vision-Based Autonomous Car Racing Using Deep Imitative Reinforcement Learning
• Learning by Watching: Physical Imitation of Manipulation Skills from Human Videos
• Contrastively Learning Visual Attention As Affordance Cues from Demonstrations for Robotic Grasping
• Seeing All the Angles: Learning Multiview Manipulation Policies for Contact-Rich Tasks from Demonstrations
• Adaptive T-Momentum-Based Optimization for Unknown Ratio of Outliers in Amateur Data in Imitation Learning
• Robust Behavior Cloning with Adversarial Demonstration Detection
• State-Only Imitation Learning for Dexterous Manipulation
• Generalization through Hand-Eye Coordination: An Action Space for Learning Spatially-Invariant Visuomotor Control
• Imitation Learning with Approximated Behavior Cloning Loss
• Risk Averse Bayesian Reward Learning for Autonomous Navigation from Human Demonstration
• Decentralized, Unlabeled Multi-Agent Navigation in Obstacle-Rich Environments Using Graph Neural Networks
• Multi-Robot Coverage and Exploration Using Spatial Graph Neural Networks
• Unsupervised Temporal Segmentation Using Models That Discriminate between Demonstrations and Unintentional Actions
• Imitation Learning with Additional Constraints on Motion Style Using Parametric Bias
• Transformer-Based Deep Imitation Learning for Dual-Arm Robot Manipulation

Intelligent Transportation Systems

• Dynamic Lambda-Field: A Counterpart of the Bayesian Occupancy Grid for Risk Assessment in Dynamic Environments
• 3D Radar Velocity Maps for Uncertain Dynamic Environments
• Extended VINS-Mono: A Systematic Approach for Absolute and Relative Vehicle Localization in Large-Scale Outdoor Environments
• Automated Type-Aware Traffic Speed Prediction Based on Sparse Intelligent Camera System
• Vision-Based Control of an Unknown Suspended Payload with a Multirotor
• Gridlock-Free Autonomous Parking Lots for Autonomous Vehicles
• Maneuver-Based Trajectory Prediction for Self-Driving Cars Using Spatio-Temporal Convolutional Networks
• Decoder Fusion RNN: Context and Interaction Aware Decoders for Trajectory Prediction
• Finding Failures in High-Fidelity Simulation Using Adaptive Stress Testing and the Backward Algorithm
• Fine-Grained Off-Road Semantic Segmentation and Mapping Via Contrastive Learning
• Multiple Contextual Cues Integrated Trajectory Prediction for Autonomous Driving
• Vehicle Dispatch in On-Demand Ride-Sharing with Stochastic Travel Times
• BEV-Net: A Bird's Eye View Object Detection Network for LiDAR Point Cloud
• Cooperative Transportation Robot System Using Risk-Sensitive Stochastic Control
• Diverse Critical Interaction Generation for Planning and Planner Evaluation
• Interpretable Goal Recognition in the Presence of Occluded Factors for Autonomous Vehicles
• Semi-Cooperative Control for Autonomous Emergency Vehicles
• RV-FuseNet: Range View Based Fusion of Time-Series LiDAR Data for Joint 3D Object Detection and Motion Forecasting
• A Simple and Efficient Multi-Task Network for 3D Object Detection and Road Understanding
• DeepSIL: A Software-In-The-Loop Framework for Evaluating Motion Planning Schemes Using Multiple Trajectory Prediction Networks
• Joint Intention and Trajectory Prediction Based on Transformer

Intention Recognition

• An Efficient Understandability Objective for Dynamic Optimal Control
• A Multimodal and Hybrid Framework for Human Navigational Intent Inference
• Multi-Modal Scene-Compliant User Intention Estimation in Navigation
• Simultaneous Prediction of Pedestrian Trajectory and Actions Based on Context Information Iterative Reasoning
• Safety-Oriented Pedestrian Occupancy Forecasting
• GRIT: Fast, Interpretable, and Verifiable Goal Recognition with Learned Decision Trees for Autonomous Driving
• CovarianceNet: Conditional Generative Model for Correct Covariance Prediction in Human Motion Prediction

Learning from Demonstration

• Learning Forceful Manipulation Skills from Multi-Modal Human Demonstrations
• ILoSA: Interactive Learning of Stiffness and Attractors
• A Marginal Log-Likelihood Approach for the Estimation of Discount Factors of Multiple Experts in Inverse Reinforcement Learning
• Towards Coordinated Robot Motions: End-To-End Learning of Motion Policies on Transform Trees
• Learning to Optimize Control Policies and Evaluate Reproduction Performance from Human Demonstrations
• Learning from Successful and Failed Demonstrations Via Optimization
• A Novel Curved Gaussian Mixture Model and Its Application in Motion Skill Encoding

Learning from Experience

• In-Air Knotting of Rope Using Dual-Arm Robot Based on Deep Learning
• Automated Generation of Robotic Planning Domains from Observations
• Behavior Self-Organization Supports Task Inference for Continual Robot Learning
• CRIL: Continual Robot Imitation Learning Via Generative and Prediction Model
• Adaptive Robotic Tool-Tip Control Learning Considering Online Changes in Grasping State
• Ontology-Assisted Generalisation of Robot Action Execution Knowledge
• Self-Body Image Acquisition and Posture Generation with Redundancy Using Musculoskeletal Humanoid Shoulder Complex for Object Manipulation

Legged Robots

• Legged Robot State Estimation with Dynamic Contact Event Information
• Tachyon: Design and Control of High Payload, Robust, and Dynamic Quadruped Robot with Series-Parallel Elastic Actuators
• Modeling and Trajectory Optimization for Standing Long Jumping of a Quadruped with a Preloaded Elastic Prismatic Spine
• The Usage of Kinematic Singularities to Produce Periodic High-Powered Locomotion
• Quadrupedal Template Model for the Parametric Stability Analysis of Trotting Gaits
• Coupling-Dependent Convergence Behavior of Phase Oscillators with Tegotae-Control
• Towards Autonomous Area Inspection with a Bio-Inspired Underwater Legged Robot
• Development of Rotating Workspace Ground Contact Force Observer for Legged Robot
• Instantaneous Capture Input for Balancing the Variable Height Inverted Pendulum
• Design of a Large-Scale Electrically-Actuated Quadruped Robot and Locomotion Control for the Narrow Passage
• Force-Feedback Based Whole-Body Stabilizer for Position-Controlled Humanoid Robots
• Adaptive Force-Based Control for Legged Robots
• Quadruped Robot Hopping on Two Legs
• Trotting and Pacing Locomotion of a Position-Controlled Quadruped Robot
• A Hierarchical Framework for Quadruped Locomotion Based on Reinforcement Learning
• Linear Policies Are Sufficient to Enable Low-Cost Quadrupedal Robots to Traverse Rough Terrain
• Verifying Safe Transitions between Dynamic Motion Primitives on Legged Robots
• Rapid Stability Margin Estimation for Contact-Rich Locomotion
• GPU-Accelerated Rapid Planar Region Extraction for Dynamic Behaviors on Legged Robots
• Animal Gaits on Quadrupedal Robots Using Motion Matching and Model-Based Control
• Run Like a Dog: Learning Based Whole-Body Control Framework for Quadruped Gait Style Transfer

Localization

• Coarse-To-Fine Semantic Localization with HD Map for Autonomous Driving in Structural Scenes
• High Accuracy Three-Dimensional Self-Localization Using Visual Markers and Inertia Measurement Unit
• Online Spatio-Temporal Calibration of Tightly-Coupled Ultrawideband-Aided Inertial Localization
• Heading Estimation Using Ultra-Wideband Received Signal Strength and Gaussian Processes
• DPLVO: Direct Point-Line Monocular Visual Odometry
• SemSegMap - 3D Segment-Based Semantic Localization
• Recalling Direct 2D-3D Matches for Large-Scale Visual Localization
• Finding Robust 2D-To-3D Correspondence with LSTM Score Estimation for Camera Localization
• Deep Unsupervised Learning Based Visual Odometry with Multi-Scale Matching and Latent Feature Constraint
• EventVLAD : Visual Place Recognition with Reconstructed Edges from Event Cameras
• Localization with Directional Coordinates
• A Hierarchical Dual Model of Environment and Place-Specific Utility for Visual Place Recognition
• Monte-Carlo Localization in Underground Parking Lots Using Parking Slot Numbers
• Real-Time Geo-Localization Using Satellite Imagery and Topography for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
• Cross-Layer Configuration Optimization for Localization on Resource-Constrained Devices
• BSP-MonoLoc: Basic Semantic Primitives Based Monocular Localization on Roads
• Ground Encoding: Learned Factor Graph-Based Models for Localizing Ground Penetrating Radar
• CLMM-Net: Robust Cascaded LiDAR Map Matching Based onMulti-Level Intensity Map
• DLL: Direct LIDAR Localization. a Map-Based Localization Approach for Aerial Robots
• Real-Time Multi-Adaptive-Resolution-Surfel 6D LiDAR Odometry Using Continuous-Time Trajectory Optimization
• Efficient Localisation Using Images and OpenStreetMaps
• Direct Near-Infrared-Depth Visual SLAM with Active Lighting
• A Computationally Efficient Moving Horizon Estimator for Ultra-Wideband Localization on Small Quadrotors

Machine Learning for Robot Control

• Learning to Play Pursuit-Evasion with Visibility Constraints
• Online Learning of Unknown Dynamics for Model-Based Controllers in Legged Locomotion
• Learning-Based Robust Motion Planning with Guaranteed Stability: A Contraction Theory Approach
• InsertionNet - a Scalable Solution for Insertion
• Object Picking Using a Two-Fingered Gripper Measuring the Deformation and Slip Detection Based on a 3-Axis Tactile Sensing
• Learning to Control an Unstable System with One Minute of Data: Leveraging Gaussian Process Differentiation in Predictive Control
• OHPL: One-Shot Hand-Eye Policy Learner
• NaturalNets: Simplified Biological Neural Networks for Learning Complex Tasks
• Talk the Talk and Walk the Walk: Dialogue-Driven Navigation in Unknown Indoor Environments
• ORCHID: Optimisation of Robotic Control and Hardware in Design Using Reinforcement Learning
• Many-Joint Robot Arm Control with Recurrent Spiking Neural Networks
• Bootstrapping Motor Skill Learning with Motion Planning
• Towards Safe Navigation through Crowded Dynamic Environments
• Self-Balancing Online Dataset for Incremental Driving Intelligence
• Coarse-To-Fine for Sim-To-Real: Sub-Millimetre Precision across Wide Task Spaces
• Hannes Prosthesis Control Based on Regression Machine Learning Algorithms
• Learning-Based Contact Status Recognition for Peg-In-Hole Assembly
• Binary Neural Network in Robotic Manipulation: Flexible Object Manipulation for Humanoid Robot Using Partially Binarized Auto-Encoder on FPGA
• STFP: Simultaneous Traffic Scene Forecasting and Planning for Autonomous Driving
• Learning Contact-Rich Skills Using Residual Admittance Policy
• ObserveNet Control: A Vision-Dynamics Learning Approach to Predictive Control in Autonomous Vehicles

Manipulation Planning

• TrajectoTree: Trajectory Optimization Meets Tree Search for Planning Multi-Contact Dexterous Manipulation
• Geometry-Based Two-Contact Inverse Kinematic Solution for Whole Arm Manipulation
• Can Robots Refill a Supermarket Shelf?: Motion Planning and Grasp Control (I)
• Efficient Task Planning for Mobile Manipulation: A Virtual Kinematic Chain Perspective
• Efficient Picking by Considering Simultaneous Two-Object Grasping
• Search-Based Path Planning for a High Dimensional Manipulator in Cluttered Environments Using Optimization-Based Primitives
• NMPC-MP: Real-Time Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for Safe Motion Planning in Manipulator Teleoperation
• Planning Robotic Manipulation with Tight Environment Constraints
• Motion and Force Planning for Manipulating Heavy Objects by Pivoting
• Coordinated Motion Generation and Object Placement: A Reactive Planning and Landing Approach
• Dynamic Pre-Grasp Planning When Tracing a Moving Object through a Multi-Agent Perspective
• Learning to Hit: A Statistical Dynamical System Based Approach
• Dynamic Grasping with Reachability and Motion Awareness
• Learning Initial Trajectory Using Sequence-To-Sequence Approach to Warm Start an Optimization-Based Motion Planner
• Understanding and Segmenting Human Demonstrations into Reusable Compliant Primitives

Manufacturing Automation

• Textile Taxonomy and Classification Using Pulling and Twisting
• Learning of Parameters in Behavior Trees for Movement Skills
• On Step-And-Scan Trajectories Used in Wafer Scanners in Semiconductor Manufacturing
• Energy-Efficient Mobile Robot Control Via Run-Time Monitoring of Environmental Complexity and Computing Workload
• Adaptive Optimization of Autonomous Vehicle Computational Resources for Performance and Energy Improvement
• Design of a New Robot End-Effector Based on Compliant Constant-Force Mechanism
• A New Method for Generating Work Piece Surface Representations for Robotic Machining

Mapping

• What's Best for My Mesh? Convex or Non-Convex Regularisation for Mesh Optimisation
• Local to Global Plane Regularity Aggregation for Dense Surfel Mapping
• Smooth Mesh Estimation from Depth Data Using Non-Smooth Convex Optimization
• DeepRelativeFusion: Dense Monocular SLAM Using Single-Image Relative Depth Prediction
• Automatic Construction of Lane-Level HD Maps for Urban Scenes
• CLINS: Continuous-Time Trajectory Estimation for LiDAR Inertial System
• An Efficient and Continuous Representation for Occupancy Mapping with Random Mapping
• Moving Object Segmentation in 3D LiDAR Data: A Learning-Based Approach Exploiting Sequential Data
• R2LIVE: A Robust, Real-Time, LiDAR-Inertial-Visual Tightly-Coupled State Estimator and Mapping
• Endo-Depth-And-Motion: Reconstruction and Tracking in Endoscopic Videos Using Depth Networks and Photometric Constraints
• CRMI: Confidence-Rich Mutual Information for Information-Theoretic Mapping
• 3D Shape Reconstruction of Small Bodies from Sparse Features
• Adaptive Hyperparameter Tuning for Black-Box LiDAR Odometry
• CatChatter: Acoustic Perception for Mobile Robots

Marine Robotics

• An Open-Source, Fiducial-Based, Underwater Stereo Visual-Inertial Localization Method with Refraction Correction
• Cooperative ASV/AUV System Exploiting Active Acoustic Localization
• Coordinated Path Planning for Surface Acoustic Beacons for Supporting Underwater Localization
• Shipborne Sea-Ice Field Mapping Using a LiDAR
• 3D Ensemble-Based Online Oceanic Flow Field Estimation for Underwater Glider Path Planning
• Leveraging Metadata in Representation Learning with Georeferenced Seafloor Imagery
• Online Kinematic and Dynamic Parameter Estimation for Autonomous Surface and Underwater Vehicles
• Towards Robust Visual Diver Detection Onboard Autonomous Underwater Robots: Assessing the Effect of Models and Data
• Predicting the Future Motion of Divers for Enhanced Underwater Human-Robot Collaboration
• Efficient LiDAR-Based In-Water Obstacle Detection and Segmentation by Autonomous Surface Vehicles in Aquatic Environments
• Robust Data Association for Multi-Object Detection in Maritime Environments Using Camera and Radar Measurements
• ShorelineNet: An Efficient Deep Learning Approach for Shoreline Semantic Segmentation for Unmanned Surface Vehicles
• AquaVis: A Perception-Aware Autonomous Navigation Framework for Underwater Vehicles
• From Aerobatics to Hydrobatics: Agile Trajectory Planning and Tracking for Micro Underwater Robots
• A Predictive Control Framework for Stabilizing a Manipulator-Assisted UAV Landing Platform on a Disturbed USV
• Invariant Extended Kalman Filtering for Underwater Navigation
• Long-Term Autonomy for AUVs Operating under Uncertainties in Dynamic Marine Environments
• Embedded Stochastic Field Exploration with Micro Diving Agents Using Bayesian Optimization-Guided Tree-Search and GMRFs
• Stochastic Guidance of Buoyancy Controlled Vehicles under Ice Shelves Using Ocean Currents
• Thrust Direction Control of an Underactuated Oscillating Swimming Robot

Mechanism Design

• Control-Aware Design Optimization for Bio-Inspired Quadruped Robots
• Singularity-Aware Design Optimization for Multi-Degree-Of-Freedom Spatial Linkages
• Embedding a Nonlinear Strict Oscillatory Mode into a Segmented Leg
• A Novel Design of Mobile Robotic System for Opening and Transitioning through a Watertight Ship Door
• Designing Rotary Linkages for Polar Motions
• Modular Two-Degree-Of-Freedom Transformable Wheels Capable of Overcoming Obstacle
• Dynamic Analysis of an Inverted Pendulum Robot with Transformable Wheels for Overcoming Steps
• BogieBot: A Climbing Robot in Cluttered Confined Space of Bogies with Ferrous Metal Surfaces
• Design and Analysis of FCSTAR, a Hybrid Flying and Climbing Sprawl Tuned Robot
• Design and Analysis of a Robotic Out-Pipe Grinding System with Friction Actuating
• Modular Pipe Climber III with Three-Output Open Differential
• Modeling and Analysis of Tensegrity Robot for Passive Dynamic Walking
• A Highly Maneuverable Hybrid Energy-Efficient Rolling/Flying System
• HanGrawler 2: Super-High-Speed and Large-Payload Ceiling Mobile Robot Using Crawler
• Mechanical Design and Evaluation of a Selectively-Actuated MRI-Compatible Continuum Neurosurgical Robot

Medical Robots and Systems

• Modeling a Symmetrically-Notched Continuum Neurosurgical Robot with Non-Constant Curvature and Superelastic Property
• Dynamic-Based RCM Torque Controller for Robotic-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery
• Multiobjective Trajectory Tracking of a Flexible Tool During Robotic Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy
• Image-Guided Control of an Endoscopic Robot for OCT Path Scanning
• A Novel Wax Based Piezo Actuator for Autonomous Deep Anterior Lamellar Keratoplasty (Piezo-DALK)
• W-ROMA: A Wearable Robotic Device for Assistive Navigation and Object Manipulation
• Capturing Skill State in Curriculum Learning for Human Skill Acquisition
• Deformation-Aware Robotic 3D Ultrasound
• Feasibility of Remote Landmark Identification for Cricothyrotomy Using Robotic Palpation
• Force Feedback on Hand Rest Function in Master Manipulator for Robotic Surgery
• SurRoL: An Open-Source Reinforcement Learning Centered and dVRK Compatible Platform for Surgical Robot Learning
• Analytical Tip Force Estimation on Tendon-Driven Catheters through Inverse Solution of Cosserat Rod Model
• Towards Safe in Situ Needle Manipulation for Robot Assisted Lumbar Injection in Interventional MRI
• Design, Actuation, and Control of an MRI-Powered Untethered Robot for Wireless Capsule Endoscopy
• A Robotic Healthcare Assistant for COVID-19 Emergency (I)
• Digital Innovation Hubs in Health-Care Robotics Fighting COVID-19: Novel Support for Patients and Health-Care Workers across Europe (I)
• Medical Robots for Infectious Diseases: Lessons and Challenges from the COVID-19 Pandemic (I)
• A Tapered Soft Robotic Oropharyngeal Swab for Throat Testing (I)
• A Dual Doctor-Patient Twin Paradigm for Transparent Remote Examination, Diagnosis, and Rehabilitation
• Robust Event Detection Based on Spatio-Temporal Latent Action Unit Using Skeletal Information
• Towards a Manipulator System for Disposal of Waste from Patients Undergoing Chemotherapy
• A Static Model for a Stiffness-Adjustable Snake-Like Robot

Micro/Nano Robots

• Precise Control of Magnetized Macrophage Cell Robot for Targeted Drug Delivery
• Development of a Vision-Based Robotic Manipulation System for Transferring of Oocytes
• Hybrid Magnetic Force and Torque Actuation of Miniature Helical Robots Using Mobile Coils to Accelerate Blood Clot Removal
• Adaptive Tracking Controller for an Alginate Artificial Cell
• Automatic Cell Rotation Based on Real-Time Detection and Tracking
• Autonomous Object Harvesting Using Synchronized Optoelectronic Microrobots
• Keeping It Simple: Bio-Inspired Threshold-Based Strain Sensing for Micro-Aerial Vehicles
• Simultaneous Actuation and Localization of Magnetic Robots Using Mobile Coils and Eye-In-Hand Hall-Effect Sensors
• Enhancing Swimming and Pumping Performance of Helical Swimmers at Low Reynolds Numbers
• Modeling of Bilayer Hydrogel Springs for Microrobots with Adaptive Locomotion
• Low Voltage Control of Micro-Ionic Thrusters Using the Electrostatic Induced Potential of the Collector
• Open-Loop Magnetic Actuation of Helical Robots Using Position-Constrained Rotating Dipole Field
• Analysis of the Effect of Clearance in Spherical Joints on the Rotation Accuracy of Parallel Type Micro-Robotic Systems
• A Portable Remote Optoelectronic Tweezer System for Microobjects Manipulation

Mobile and Bimanual Manipulation

• Mobile Manipulation Hackathon: Moving into Real World Applications (I)
• Optimal Order Pick-And-Place of Objects in Cluttered Scene by a Mobile Manipulator
• Simultaneous Scene Reconstruction and Whole-Body Motion Planning for Safe Operation in Dynamic Environments
• Effect of Assembly Design on a Walking Multi-Arm Robotics for In-Space Assembly
• A Multi-Target Trajectory Planning of a 6-DoF Free-Floating Space Robot Via Reinforcement Learning
• Disentangling Dense Multi-Cable Knots
• Design and Evaluation of a Hair Combing System Using a General-Purpose Robotic Arm

Model Learning for Control

• GloCAL: Glocalized Curriculum-Aided Learning of Multiple Tasks with Application to Robotic Grasping
• Multi-Scale Aggregation with Self-Attention Network for Modeling Electrical Motor Dynamics
• A Robust Data-Driven Approach for Dynamics Model Identification in Trajectory Planning
• Guiding Robot Model Construction with Prior Features
• A Novel Quotient Space Approach to Model-Based Fault Detection and Isolation: Theory and Preliminary Simulation Evaluation
• Particle MPC for Uncertain and Learning-Based Control
• DMotion: Robotic Visuomotor Control with Unsupervised Forward Model Learned from Videos

Modeling, Control, and Learning for Soft Robots

• Soft Robot Configuration Estimation and Control Using Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
• A Parameter Identification Method for Static Cosserat Rod Models: Application to Soft Material Actuators with Exteroceptive Sensors
• Analytical Modeling of a Soft Pneu-Net Actuator Based on Finite Strain Beam Theory
• Soft-CCD Algorithm for Inverse Kinematics of Soft Continuum Manipulators
• Shape-Centric Modeling for Soft Robot Inchworm Locomotion
• SoPrA: Fabrication & Dynamical Modeling of a Scalable Soft Continuum Robotic Arm with Integrated Proprioceptive Sensing
• Dynamic Modelling and Visco-Elastic Parameter Identification of a Fibre-Reinforced Soft Fluidic Elastomer Manipulator
• Sim2Sim Evaluation of a Novel Data-Efficient Differentiable Physics Engine for Tensegrity Robots
• Soft Manipulator Fault Detection and Identification Using ANC-Based LSTM
• Position Control and Variable-Height Trajectory Tracking of a Soft Pneumatic Legged Robot
• Task Driven Skill Learning in a Soft-Robotic Arm
• Design and Control of Pneumatic Systems for Soft Robotics: A Simulation Approach
• Constant Fluidic Mass Control for Soft Actuators Using Artificial Neural Network Algorithm
• Koopman-Based Control of a Soft Continuum Manipulator under Variable Loading Conditions
• Closed-Loop Position Control of a Self-Sensing 3-DoF Origami Module with Pneumatic Actuators
• Discrete Cosserat Approach for Closed-Chain Soft Robots: Application to the Fin-Ray® Finger (I)
• Manipulating a Whip in 3D Via Dynamic Primitives
• A Hybrid Dual Jacobian Approach for Autonomous Control of Concentric Tube Robots in Unknown Constrained Environments
• Dynamics Computation of a Hybrid Multi-Link Humanoid Robot Integrating Rigid and Soft Bodies
• A Control and Drive System for Pneumatic Soft Robots: PneuSoRD
• Flow Path Optimization for Soft Pneumatic Actuators: Towards Optimal Performance and Portability

Motion Control

• Exponential Stability of Trajectory Tracking Control in the Orientation Space Utilizing Unit Quaternions
• Control of Spherical Robots on Uneven Terrains
• Area Defense and Surveillance on Rectangular Regions Using Control Barrier Functions
• Robust Feedback Motion Primitives for Exploration of Unknown Terrains
• On Energy-Preserving Motion in Twisted String Actuators
• Learning-Based Balance Control of Wheel-Legged Robots
• Source Seeking Control of Unicycle Robots with 3D-Printed Flexible Piezoresistive Sensors (I)

Motion and Path Planning

• B-Spline Path Planner for Safe Navigation of Mobile Robots
• Closed-Loop Fast Marching Tree (CL-FMT*) with Application to Helicopter Landing Trajectory Planning
• Informed Autonomous Exploration of Subterranean Environments
• UV-C Mobile Robots with Optimized Path Planning Can Improve Surface Disinfection against SARS-CoV-2 (I)
• Exploring Learning for Intercepting Projectiles with a Robot-Held Stick
• Disruption-Limited Planning for Robot Navigation in Dynamic Environments
• Spatial Constraint Generation for Motion Planning in Dynamic Environments
• Trajectory Optimization for Rendezvous Planning Using Quadratic Bezier Curves
• Unsupervised Path Regression Networks
• Path-Constrained Optimal Trajectory Planning for Robot Manipulators with Obstacle Avoidance
• CR-LSTM: Collision-Prior Guided Social Refinement for Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction
• Robust and Recursively Feasible Real-Time Trajectory Planning in Unknown Environments
• PILOT: Efficient Planning by Imitation Learning and Optimisation for Safe Autonomous Driving
• Exploring Imitation Learning for Autonomous Driving with Feedback Synthesizer and Differentiable Rasterization
• Interpretable Run-Time Prediction and Planning in Co-Robotic Environments
• HyperPlan: A Framework for Motion Planning Algorithm Selection and Parameter Optimization
• Designing Human-Robot Coexistence Space
• APPLE: Adaptive Planner Parameter Learning from Evaluative Feedback
• Generation of Human-Like Arm Motions Using Sampling-Based Motion Planning
• PlannerFlows: Learning Motion Samplers with Normalising Flows
• Safe and Fast Path Planner for Minimally Invasive Surgery
• DT*: Temporal Logic Path Planning in a Dynamic Environment
• Mobile Recharger Path Planning and Recharge Scheduling in a Multi-Robot Environment
• Geometric Motion Planning for a System on the Cylindrical Surface
• Section Patterns: Efficiently Solving Narrow Passage Problems in Multilevel Motion Planning (I)
• PG-RRT: A Gaussian Mixture Model Driven, Kinematically Constrained Bi-Directional RRT for Robot Path Planning
• Accelerating Kinodynamic RRT* through Dimensionality Reduction
• Risk-Averse RRT* Planning with Nonlinear Steering and Tracking Controllers for Nonlinear Robotic Systems under Uncertainty
• Learning When to Quit: Meta-Reasoning for Motion Planning
• Joint Sampling and Trajectory Optimization Over Graphs for Online Motion Planning
• Path Planning for Robotic Manipulators in Dynamic Environments Using Distance Information
• Variable-Speed Traveling Salesman Problem for Vehicles with Curvature Constrained Trajectories
• Risk-Aware Submodular Optimization for Stochastic Travelling Salesperson Problem
• Fast Generation of Obstacle-Avoiding Motion Primitives for Quadrotors
• Roadmap for Visibility-Based Target Tracking: Iterative Construction and Motion Strategy
• Discrete Optimization of Adaptive State Lattices for Iterative Motion Planning on Unmanned Ground Vehicles
• Learning Continuous Cost-To-Go Functions for Non-Holonomic Systems
• Robust Sample-Based Output-Feedback Path Planning
• Combined Stochastic-Deterministic Predictive Control Using Local-Minima Free Navigation
• Safe Navigation in Human Occupied Environments Using Sampling and Control Barrier Functions
• Constrained Iterative LQG for Real-Time Chance-Constrained Gaussian Belief Space Planning
• Robotic Jigsaws: Path Planning for Non-Holonomic Cutting Robots
• A Meta-Learning-Based Trajectory Tracking Framework for UAVs under Degraded Conditions
• Orientation-Aware Planning for Parallel Task Execution of Omni-Directional Mobile Robot
• Informed Sampling Exploration Path Planner for 3D Reconstruction of Large Scenes
• Class-Ordered LPA�: An Incremental-Search Algorithm for Weighted Colored Graphs
• Rough Terrain Navigation for Legged Robots Using Reachability Planning and Template Learning
• Using Experience to Improve Constrained Planning on Foliations for Multi-Modal Problems
• A Sampling-Based Motion Planning Framework for Complex Motor Actions
• Capacitated Vehicle Routing with Target Geometric Constraints
• Sparsification for Fast Optimal Multi-Robot Path Planning in Lazy Compilation Schemes
• A Novel Recursive Smooth Trajectory Generation Method for Unmanned Vehicles (I)
• Search-Based Planning with Learned Behaviors for Navigation among Pedestrians
• A Fast Algorithm for Stochastic Orienteering with Chance Constraints
• Kohonen Self-Organizing Map Based Route Planning: A Revisit
• FloMo: Tractable Motion Prediction with Normalizing Flows
• Cognitive Navigation for Indoor Environment Using Floorplan
• Improving Kinodynamic Planners for Vehicular Navigation with Learned Goal-Reaching Controllers
• Polygon-Based Random Tree Search Algorithm with Variable Polygon Size
• A Holistic Motion Planning and Control Solution to Challenge a Professional Racecar Driver
• Risk Conditioned Neural Motion Planning
• Real-Time Volumetric-Semantic Exploration and Mapping: An Uncertainty-Aware Approach
• Multitask and Transfer Learning of Geometric Robot Motion

Multi-Robot SLAM

• MR-iSAM2: Incremental Smoothing and Mapping with Multi-Root Bayes Tree for Multi-Robot SLAM
• A Collaborative Visual SLAM Framework for Service Robots
• Distributed Certifiably Correct Pose-Graph Optimization (I)
• ORBBuf: A Robust Buffering Method for Remote Visual SLAM
• Distributed Visual-Inertial Cooperative Localization
• Coxgraph: Multi-Robot Collaborative, Globally Consistent, Online Dense Reconstruction System
• Super Odometry: IMU-Centric LiDAR-Visual-Inertial Estimator for Challenging Environments

Multi-Robot Systems

• Distributed Event and Self-Triggered Coverage Control with Speed Constrained Unicycle Robots
• Combined Routing and Scheduling of Heterogeneous Transport and Service Agents
• Encirclement Guaranteed Cooperative Pursuit with Robust Model Predictive Control
• On Provably Safe and Live Multi-Robot Coordination with Online Goal Posting (I)
• Path Optimization for Cooperative Mapping Using Multiple Robots with Limited Sensing Capabilities
• An Interleaved Approach to Trait-Based Task Allocation and Scheduling
• Multi-Robot Task Assignment for Aerial Tracking with Viewpoint Constraints
• Downing a Rogue Drone with a Team of Aerial Radio Signal Jammers
• Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Visibility-Based Persistent Monitoring
• Cooperative Multi-Robot Object Transportation System Based on Hierarchical Quadratic Programming
• Autonomous Aerial Filming with Distributed Lighting by a Team of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
• Planning for Aerial Robot Teams for Wide-Area Biometric and Phenotypic Data Collection
• Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures: Towards Risk-Adaptive Task Allocation
• Source Seeking by Dynamic Source Location Estimation
• Market-Based Multi-Robot Coordination with HTN Planning
• Flocking and Collision Avoidance for a Dynamic Squad of Fixed-Wing UAVs Using Deep Reinforcement Learning
• Learning to Play Soccer from Scratch: Sample-Efficient Emergent Coordination through Curriculum-Learning and Competition
• Dual Quaternion Cluster-Space Formation Control
• Impact of Heterogeneity and Risk Aversion on Task Allocation in Multi-Agent Teams
• Hiding Leader's Identity in Leader-Follower Navigation through Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
• Moving Forward in Formation: A Decentralized Hierarchical Learning Approach to Multi-Agent Moving Together
• Scalable Reinforcement Learning Policies for Multi-Agent Control
• Refuel Scheduling for Multirobot Charging-On-Demand
• Event-Triggered Control for Weight-Unbalanced Directed Robot Networks
• Impedance-Based Collision Reaction Strategy Via Internal Stress Loading in Cooperative Manipulation
• Detection and Inference of Randomness-Based Behavior for Resilient Multi-Vehicle Coordinated Operations
• Meta Preference Learning for Fast User Adaptation in Human-Supervisory Multi-Robot Deployments
• Relative Localization of Mobile Robots with Multiple Ultra-WideBand Ranging Measurements
• Optimization-Based Robot Team Exploration Considering Attrition and Communication Constraints
• Distributed Sampling-Based Planning for Non-Myopic Active Information Gathering

Object Detection, Segmentation and Categorization

• Camera Parameters Aware Motion Segmentation Network with Compensated Optical Flow
• APEX: Unsupervised, Object-Centric Scene Segmentation and Tracking for Robot Manipulation
• PLUMENet: Efficient 3D Object Detection from Stereo Images
• Part-Aware Data Augmentation for 3D Object Detection in Point Cloud
• MS-UDA: Multi-Spectral Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Thermal Image Semantic Segmentation
• MapFusion: A General Framework for 3D Object Detection with HDMaps
• SpikeMS: Deep Spiking Neural Network for Motion Segmentation
• Active Perception for Ambiguous Objects Classification
• Event-Based Motion Segmentation by Cascaded Two-Level Multi-Model Fitting
• FIDNet: LiDAR Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation with Fully Interpolation Decoding
• Look before You Act: Boosting Pseudo-LiDAR with Online Semantic Embedding
• FEANet: Feature-Enhanced Attention Network for RGB-Thermal Real-Time Semantic Segmentation
• ODIP: Towards Automatic Adaptation for Object Detection by Interactive Perception
• Vessel Classification Using a Regression Neural Network Approach

Optimization and Optimal Control

• Offset-Free Model Predictive Control: A Ball Catching Application with a Spherical Soft Robotic Arm
• Embedded Hardware Appropriate Fast 3D Trajectory Optimization for Fixed Wing Aerial Vehicles by Leveraging Hidden Convex Structures
• Probabilistic Iterative LQR for Short Time Horizon MPC
• Efficient and Reactive Planning for High Speed Robot Air Hockey
• Closed-Loop Robotic Cooking of Scrambled Eggs with a Salinity-Based ‘Taste’ Sensor
• Car Racing Line Optimization with Genetic Algorithm Using Approximate Homeomorphism
• Human Motion Imitation Using Optimal Control with Time-Varying Weights
• Learning Environment Constraints in Collaborative Robotics: A Decentralized Leader-Follower Approach
• Decentralized Trajectory Optimization for Multi-Agent Ergodic Exploration
• Accelerating Second-Order Differential Dynamic Programming for Rigid-Body Systems
• Rapid Convex Optimization of Centroidal Dynamics Using Block Coordinate Descent
• Real-Time Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability Analysis of Autonomous System with an FPGA
• Pairwise Preferences-Based Optimization of a Path-Based Velocity Planner in Robotic Sealing Tasks
• Memory Clustering Using Persistent Homology for Multimodality and Discontinuity-Sensitive Learning of Optimal Control Warm-Starts (I)

Parallel Robots

• Static Workspace Optimization of Aerial Cable Towed Robots with Land-Fixed Winches (I)
• A Reaction-Based Stabilizer for Nonmodel-Based Vibration Control of Cable-Driven Parallel Robots (I)
• Wrench Feasibility and Workspace Expansion of Planar Cable-Driven Parallel Robots by a Novel Passive Counterbalancing Mechanism (I)
• Development of a New 2-DOF Wrist Mechanism Using Reverse Motion Transmission
• A Novel 2-SUR 6-DOF Parallel Manipulator Actuated by Spherical Motion Generators
• A Novel Model-Based Robust Super-Twisting Sliding Mode Control of PKMs: Design and Real-Time Experiments
• Moving-Platform Pose Estimation for Cable-Driven Parallel Robots

Path Planning for Multiple Mobile Robots or Agents

• Iterative Refinement for Real-Time Multi-Robot Path Planning
• Subdimensional Expansion for Multi-Objective Multi-Agent Path Finding
• Parallel Hierarchical Composition Conflict-Based Search for Optimal Multi-Agent Pathfinding
• Loosely Synchronized Search for Multi-Agent Path Finding with Asynchronous Actions
• On Connected Deployment of Delay-Critical FANETs
• Team Orienteering Coverage Planning with Uncertain Reward
• Rapid Recovery from Robot Failures in Multi-Robot Visibility-Based Pursuit-Evasion
• PlanSys2: A Planning System Framework for ROS2

Perception for Grasping and Manipulation

• Sim-To-Real Transfer for Robotic Manipulation with Tactile Sensory
• Visual-Tactile Fusion for 3D Objects Reconstruction from a Single Depth View and a Single Gripper Touch for Robotics Tasks
• Policy Learning for Visually Conditioned Tactile Manipulation
• Hybrid ICP
• Improving Grasp Stability with Rotation Measurement from Tactile Sensing
• Multi-View Fusion for Multi-Level Robotic Scene Understanding
• Fast Reactive Grasping with In-Finger Vision and In-Hand FPGA-Accelerated CNNs

Perception-Action Coupling

• Explaining the Decisions of Deep Policy Networks for Robotic Manipulations
• An Adversarial Objective for Scalable Exploration
• Leading or Following? Dyadic Robot Imitative Interaction Using the Active Inference Framework
• Robotic Occlusion Reasoning for Efficient Object Existence Prediction
• Multimodal VAE Active Inference Controller
• Large-Area Conformable Sensor for Proximity, Light Touch, and Pressure-Based Gesture Recognition
• Tactile Slip Detection in the Wild Leveraging Distributed Sensing of Both Normal and Shear Forces
• NudgeSeg: Zero-Shot Object Segmentation by Repeated Physical Interaction

Physical Human-Robot Interaction

• Contact Anticipation for Physical Human-Robot Interaction with Robotic Manipulators Using Onboard Proximity Sensors
• Biomechanics Aware Collaborative Robot System for Delivery of Safe Physical Therapy in Shoulder Rehabilitation
• A Computational Multicriteria Optimization Approach to Controller Design for Physical Human-Robot Interaction (I)
• Task Geometry Aware Assistance for Kinesthetic Teaching of Redundant Robots
• A Framework for Dyadic Physical Interaction Studies During Ankle Motor Tasks
• A Conceptual Approach of Passive Human-Intention-Orientated Variable Admittance Control Using Power Envelope
• Inferring Goals with Gaze During Teleoperated Manipulation

Planning, Scheduling and Coordination

• Multi-Robot Task Planning under Individual and Collaborative Temporal Logic Specifications
• Reduced State Value Iteration for Multi-Drone Persistent Surveillance with Charging Constraints
• Multi-Robot Scheduling for Environmental Monitoring As a Team Orienteering Problem
• An Augmented MDP Approach for Solving Stochastic Security Games
• A Resolution Adaptive Algorithm for the Stochastic Orienteering Problem with Chance Constraints
• Force-Based Formation Control of Omnidirectional Ground Vehicles
• Hybrid Path Planning for UAV Traffic Management
• Optimizing Requests for Support in Context-Restricted Autonomy

Prosthetics and Exoskeletons

• A Soft Robotic Hip Exosuit (SR-HExo) to Assist Hip Flexion and Extension During Human Locomotion
• Using Footsteps to Estimate Changes in the Desired Gait Speed of an Exoskeleton User
• Virtual Energy Regulator: A Time-Independent Solution for Control of Lower Limb Exoskeletons
• Online Learning of the Dynamical Internal Model of Transfemoral Prosthesis for Enhancing Compliance
• Muscle Synergies Enable Accurate Joint Moment Prediction Using Few Electromyography Sensors
• F-VESPA: A Kinematic-Based Algorithm for Real-Time Heel-Strike Detection During Walking
• Temporal Dilation of Deep LSTM for Agile Decoding of sEMG: Application in Prediction of Upperlimb Motor Intention in NeuroRobotics
• An Anthropomorphic Prosthetic Hand with an Active, Selectively Lockable Differential Mechanism: Towards Affordable Dexterity
• A Powered Prosthetic Ankle Designed for Task Variability - a Concept Validation
• Self-Contained 2-DOF Ankle-Foot Prosthesis with Low-Inertia Extremity for Agile Walking on Uneven Terrain
• Hybrid Volitional Control As a Framework for Lower-Limb Prosthetic Control: A Simulation Study
• Sensorimotor-Inspired Tactile Feedback and Control Improve Consistency of Prosthesis Manipulation in the Absence of Direct Vision
• Phase-Variable Control of a Powered Knee-Ankle Prosthesis Over Continuously Varying Speeds and Inclines
• User Controlled Interface for Tuning Robotic Knee Prosthesis
• Design and Implementation of a Stumble Recovery Controller for a Knee Exoskeleton

RGB-D Perception

• Spatial Imagination with Semantic Cognition for Mobile Robots
• Decoder Modulation for Indoor Depth Completion
• Adversarial Attacks on Camera-LiDAR Models for 3D Car Detection
• Robust and Accurate RGB-D Reconstruction with Line Feature Constraints
• Object-Augmented RGB-D SLAM for Wide-Disparity Relocalisation
• Plane Segmentation Using Depth-Dependent Flood Fill
• Robust Pose Estimation Based on Normalized Information Distance
• RoboSLAM: Dense RGB-D SLAM for Humanoid Robots

Range Sensing

• Joint Depth and Normal Estimation from Real-World Time-Of-Flight Raw Data
• On the Descriptive Power of LiDAR Intensity Images for Segment-Based Loop Closing in 3-D SLAM
• Learning State-Dependent Sensor Measurement Models with Limited Sensor Measurements
• Self-Calibrated Dense 3D Sensor Using Multiple Cross Line Lasers Based on Light Sectioning Method and Visual Odometry
• Patchwork: Concentric Zone-Based Region-Wise Ground Segmentation with Ground Likelihood Estimation Using a 3D LiDAR Sensor
• MILIOM: Tightly Coupled Multi-Input Lidar-Inertia Odometry and Mapping
• Obstacle Avoidance Onboard MAVs Using a FMCW Radar

Reactive and Sensor-Based Planning

• Autonomous Runtime Composition of Sensor-Based Skills Using Concurrent Task Planning
• Multi-Resolution POMDP Planning for Multi-Object Search in 3D
• Deformation Recovery Control and Post-Impact Trajectory Replanning for Collision-Resilient Mobile Robots
• Towards Autonomous Parking Using Vision-Only Sensors
• Mechanical Search on Shelves Using Lateral Access X-RAY
• XAI-N: Sensor-Based Robot Navigation Using Expert Policies and Decision Trees
• Reactive Control for Bipedal Running Over Random Discrete Terrain under Uncertainty

Recognition

• Object-To-Scene: Learning to Transfer Object Knowledge to Indoor Scene Recognition
• MV-FractalDB: Formula-Driven Supervised Learning for Multi-View Image Recognition
• CORAL: Colored Structural Representation for Bi-Modal Place Recognition
• SSC: Semantic Scan Context for Large-Scale Place Recognition
• Fully-Online Always-Adaptation of Transfer Functions and Its Application to Sound Source Localization and Separation
• Enabling Robots to Distinguish between Aggressive and Joking Attitudes
• Alternating Drive-And-Glide Flight Navigation of a Kinteplane for Sound Source Position Estimation

Reinforcement Learning

• A Sim-To-Real Pipeline for Deep Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Robot Navigation in Cluttered Rough Terrain
• Inclined Quadrotor Landing Using Deep Reinforcement Learning
• Self-Supervised Online Reward Shaping in Sparse-Reward Environments
• CLAMGen: Closed-Loop Arm Motion Generation Via Multi-View Vision-Based RL
• Residual Feedback Learning for Contact-Rich Manipulation Tasks with Uncertainty
• DEALIO: Data-Efficient Adversarial Learning for Imitation from Observation
• Learning to Design and Construct Bridge without Blueprint
• Sample-Efficient Reinforcement Learning Representation Learning with Curiosity Contrastive Forward Dynamics Model
• An Efficient Image-To-Image Translation HourGlass-Based Architecture for Object Pushing Policy Learning
• A Joint Imitation-Reinforcement Learning Framework for Reduced Baseline Regret
• Passing through Narrow Gaps with Deep Reinforcement Learning
• HARL-A: Hardware Agnostic Reinforcement Learning through Adversarial Selection
• Motion Planning for Autonomous Vehicles in the Presence of Uncertainty Using Reinforcement Learning
• Safe Continuous Control with Constrained Model-Based Policy Optimization
• Terrain-Aware Risk-Assessment-Network-Aided Deep Reinforcement Learning for Quadrupedal Locomotion in Tough Terrain
• Hierarchical Terrain-Aware Control for Quadrupedal Locomotion by Combining Deep Reinforcement Learning and Optimal Control
• Model-Based Constrained Reinforcement Learning Using Generalized Control Barrier Function
• Learning Human Rewards by Inferring Their Latent Intelligence Levels in Multi-Agent Games: A Theory-Of-Mind Approach with Application to Driving Data
• Meta-Learning for Fast Adaptive Locomotion with Uncertainties in Environments and Robot Dynamics
• Monolithic vs. Hybrid Controller for Multi-Objective Sim-To-Real Learning
• Centralizing State-Values in Dueling Networks for Multi-Robot Reinforcement Learning Mapless Navigation
• Benchmarking Safe Deep Reinforcement Learning in Aquatic Navigation
• Multi-Agent Collaborative Learning with Relational Graph Reasoning in Adversarial Environments
• Semantic Tracklets: An Object-Centric Representation for Visual Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
• Bayesian Residual Policy Optimization: Scalable Bayesian Reinforcement Learning with Clairvoyant Experts
• Memory-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning for POMDPs
• PNS: Population-Guided Novelty Search for Reinforcement Learning in Hard Exploration Environments
• MAMBPO: Sample-Efficient Multi-Robot Reinforcement Learning Using Learned World Models
• Q-Learning with Long-Term Action-Space Shaping to Model Complex Behavior for Autonomous Lane Changes

Representation Learning

• COCOI: Contact-Aware Online Context Inference for Generalizable Non-Planar Pushing
• DeepKoCo: Efficient Latent Planning with a Task-Relevant Koopman Representation
• Low Dimensional State Representation Learning with Robotics Priors in Continuous Action Spaces
• Acceleration of Actor-Critic Deep Reinforcement Learning for Visual Grasping by State Representation Learning Based on a Preprocessed Input Image
• SSTN: Self-Supervised Domain Adaptation Thermal Object Detection for Autonomous Driving
• Self-Supervised Disentangled Representation Learning for Third-Person Imitation Learning
• Learning to Drop Points for LiDAR Scan Synthesis

Robot Safety

• On Compliance and Safety with Torque-Control for Robots with High Reduction Gears and No Joint-Torque Feedback
• A Kelvin Wake Avoidance Scheme for Autonomous Sailing Robots Based on Orientation-Restricted Dubins Path
• A Predictive Safety Filter for Learning-Based Racing Control
• Measurement-Robust Control Barrier Functions: Certainty in Safety with Uncertainty in State
• Group Multi-Object Tracking for Dynamic Risk Map and Safe Path Planning
• Reactive and Safe Road User Simulations Using Neural Barrier Certificates
• Rm-Code: Proprioceptive Real-Time Recursive Multi-Contact Detection, Isolation and Identification
• R-SNN: An Analysis and Design Methodology for Robustifying Spiking Neural Networks against Adversarial Attacks through Noise Filters for Dynamic Vision Sensors

Robotic Systems and Benchmarking

• Identifying Performance Regression Conditions for Testing & Evaluation of Autonomous Systems
• JCopter: Reliable UAV Software through Managed Languages
• Towards a Reference Framework for Tactile Robot Performance and Safety Benchmarking
• On Assessing the Usefulness of Proxy Domains for Developing and Evaluating Embodied Agents
• Towards Efficient Learning-Based Model Predictive Control Via Feedback Linearization and Gaussian Process Regression
• HOPPY: An Open-Source Kit for Education with Dynamic Legged Robots
• A Methodology for Approaching the Integration of Complex Robotics Systems Illustrated through a Bi-Manual Manipulation Case-Study (I)
• Robust SLAM Systems: Are We There Yet?
• Evaluating the Impact of Semantic Segmentation and Pose Estimation on Dense Semantic SLAM
• Overlap Displacement Error: Are Your SLAM Poses Map-Consistent?
• Error Diagnosis of Deep Monocular Depth Estimation Models
• New Metrics for Industrial Depth Sensors Evaluation for Precise Robotic Applications
• I3SA: The Increased Step Size Stability Assessment Benchmark and Its Application to the Humanoid Robot REEM-C
• Interpretable Trade-Offs between Robot Task Accuracy and Compute Efficiency

Robotics and Automation in Agriculture and Forestry

• Few-Leaf Learning: Weed Segmentation in Grasslands
• Toward Robotic Weed Control: Detection of Nutsedge Weed in Bermudagrass Turf Using Inaccurate and Insufficient Training Data
• A Low-Cost Robot with Autonomous Recharge and Navigation for Weed Control in Fields with Narrow Row Spacing
• Viewpoint Planning for Fruit Size and Position Estimation
• Robotic Lime Picking by Considering Leaves As Permeable Obstacles
• Towards Intelligent Fruit Picking with In-Hand Sensing
• A Robust Illumination-Invariant Camera System for Agricultural Applications
• Depth Ranging Performance Evaluation and Improvement for RGB-D Cameras on Field-Based High-Throughput Phenotyping Robots

Robotics and Automation in Agriculture, Forestry and Construction

• Reinforcement Learning Control of a Forestry Crane Manipulator
• Hybrid Data-Driven Modelling for Inverse Control of Hydraulic Excavators
• Real-Time Motion Planning of a Hydraulic Excavator Using Trajectory Optimization and Model Predictive Control
• Task-Consistent Path Planning for Mobile 3D Printing
• A Learning Approach to Robot-Agnostic Force-Guided High Precision Assembly
• Image-Based Joint State Estimation Pipeline for Sensorless Manipulators
• Navigate-And-Seek: A Robotics Framework for People Localization in Agricultural Environments

SLAM

• A General Framework for Lifelong Localization and Mapping in Changing Environment
• Geometry-Based Graph Pruning for Lifelong SLAM
• Consistent SLAM Using Local Optimization with Virtual Prior Topologies
• Line Flow Based Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (I)
• Probabilistic Appearance-Invariant Topometric Localization with New Place Awareness
• Efficient Multimodal Belief Propagation for Robust SLAM Using Clustering Based Reparameterization
• Robust Initialization of Multi-Camera SLAM with Limited View Overlaps and Inaccurate Extrinsic Calibration
• Visual Place Recognition Using LiDAR Intensity Information
• F-LOAM: Fast LiDAR Odometry and Mapping
• LiDAR-Based Object-Level SLAM for Autonomous Vehicles
• LiDAR SLAM with Plane Adjustment for Indoor Environment
• Low-Drift Odometry, Mapping and Ground Segmentation Using a Backpack LiDAR System
• RF-LIO: Removal-First Tightly-Coupled Lidar Inertial Odometry in High Dynamic Environments
• What's in My LiDAR Odometry Toolbox?
• Accurate Visual-Inertial SLAM by Manhattan Frame Re-Identification
• SymbioLCD: Ensemble-Based Loop Closure Detection Using CNN-Extracted Objects and Visual Bag-Of-Words
• Consensus-Informed Optimization Over Mixtures for Ambiguity-Aware Object SLAM
• GR-Fusion: Multi-Sensor Fusion SLAM for Ground Robots with High Robustness and Low Drift
• Multi-Layer VI-GNSS Global Positioning Framework with Numerical Solution Aided MAP Initialization
• Angular Super-Resolution Radar SLAM
• CFEAR Radarodometry - Conservative Filtering for Efficient and Accurate Radar Odometry
• Stereo Plane SLAM Based on Intersecting Lines
• Hierarchical Segment-Based Optimization for SLAM
• CodeMapping: Real-Time Dense Mapping for Sparse SLAM Using Compact Scene Representations
• Topology Aware Object-Level Semantic Mapping towards More Robust Loop Closure
• Random Fourier Features Based SLAM
• Robust Rank Deficient SLAM
• Keypoint Matching for Point Cloud Registration Using Multiplex Dynamic Graph Attention Networks
• Robust Multi-Camera SLAM with Manhattan Constraint Toward Automated Valet Parking
• DSVP: Dual-Stage Viewpoint Planner for Rapid Exploration by Dynamic Expansion
• PoseFusion2: Simultaneous Background Reconstruction and Human Shape Recovery in Real-Time
• A Multi-Hypothesis Approach to Pose Ambiguity in Object-Based SLAM
• Underwater Visual Acoustic SLAM with Extrinsic Calibration
• Some Research Questions for SLAM in Deformable Environments
• An Analytical Solution to the IMU Initialization Problem for Visual-Inertial Systems

Semantic Scene Understanding

• Up-To-Down Network: Fusing Multi-Scale Context for 3D Semantic Scene Completion
• Memory-Based Semantic Segmentation for Off-Road Unstructured Natural Environments
• A Deep Learning-Based Indoor Scene Classification Approach Enhanced with Inter-Object Distance Semantic Features
• BORM: Bayesian Object Relation Model for Indoor Scene Recognition
• CORSAIR: Convolutional Object Retrieval and Symmetry-AIded Registration
• Real-Time Monocular Human Depth Estimation and Segmentation on Embedded Systems
• Multi-Scale Feature Aggregation by Cross-Scale Pixel-To-Region Relation Operation for Semantic Segmentation
• TUPPer-Map: Temporal and Unified Panoptic Perception for 3D Metric-Semantic Mapping
• Local Memory Attention for Fast Video Semantic Segmentation
• LiDAR-Based Drivable Region Detection for Autonomous Driving
• CP-Loss: Connectivity-Preserving Loss for Road Curb Detection in Autonomous Driving with Aerial Images
• Semantic Image Alignment for Vehicle Localization
• ISSAFE: Improving Semantic Segmentation in Accidents by Fusing Event-Based Data
• SNE-RoadSeg+: Rethinking Depth-Normal Translation and Deep Supervision for Freespace Detection

Sensor Fusion

• Lvio-Fusion: A Self-Adaptive Multi-Sensor Fusion SLAM Framework Using Actor-Critic Method
• Reactive Visual Odometry Scheduling Based on Noise Analysis Using an Adaptive Extended Kalman Filter
• Multi-Sensor Fusion Incorporating Adaptive Transformation for Reconfigurable Pavement Sweeping Robot
• Modular Multi-Sensor Fusion: A Collaborative State Estimation Perspective
• GEM: Glare or Gloom, I Can Still See You -- End-To-End Multi-Modal Object Detection
• Continuous-Time Radar-Inertial Odometry for Automotive Radars
• Radar Visual Inertial Odometry and Radar Thermal Inertial Odometry: Robust Navigation Even in Challenging Visual Conditions
• Accurate Depth Estimation from a Hybrid Event-RGB Stereo Setup
• FINO-Net: A Deep Multimodal Sensor Fusion Framework for Manipulation Failure Detection
• 3D-FFS: Faster 3D Object Detection with Focused Frustum Search in Sensor Fusion Based Networks
• Reinforcement Learning Compensated Extended Kalman Filter for Attitude Estimation
• Radar Ghost Target Detection Via Multimodal Transformers
• AcousticFusion: Fusing Sound Source Localization to Visual SLAM in Dynamic Environments
• Data-Fusion for Robust Off-Road Perception Considering Data Quality of Uncertain Sensors

Service, Art and Entertainment Robotics

• Imagination-Enabled Robot Perception
• AutoPhoto: Aesthetic Photo Capture Using Reinforcement Learning
• Motion Strategy Using Opponent Player's Serial Learning for Air-Hockey Robots
• Learning Robotic Contact Juggling
• Towards a User Adaptive Assistive Robot: Learning from Demonstration Using Navigation Functions
• Cross-Modal Analysis of Human Detection for Robotics: An Industrial Case Study
• Consolidating Kinematic Models to Promote Coordinated Mobile Manipulations

Shared Autonomy for Physical Human-Robot Interaction

• Shared Control Based on a Brain-Computer Interface for Human-Multirobot Cooperation
• Reconfigurable Constraint-Based Reactive Framework for Assistive Robotics with Adaptable Levels of Autonomy
• Toward Vision-Based High Sampling Interaction Force Estimation with Master Position and Orientation for Teleoperation
• Informing Real-Time Corrections in Corrective Shared Autonomy through Expert Demonstrations
• Autonomy in Physical Human-Robot Interaction: A Brief Survey
• A Shared Control Method for Collaborative Human-Robot Plug Task
• Robotics for Occupational Therapy: Learning Upper-Limb Exercises from Demonstrations
• Intelligent Locomotion Planning with Enhanced Postural Stability for Lower-Limb Exoskeletons
• Human-In-The-Loop Stability Analysis of Haptic Rendering with Time Delay by Tracking the Roots of the Characteristic Quasi-Polynomial -- the Effect of Arm Impedance
• Deep Neural Skill Assessment and Transfer: Application to Robotic Surgery Training
• Towards Safe Human-Quadrotor Interaction: Mixed-Initiative Control Via Real-Time NMPC

Simulation

• Learning to Fly—a Gym Environment with PyBullet Physics for Reinforcement Learning of Multi-Agent Quadcopter Control
• IGibson 1.0: A Simulation Environment for Interactive Tasks in Large Realistic Scenes
• An Approach to Deploy Interactive Robotic Simulators on the Web for HRI Experiments: Results in Social Robot Navigation
• Co-Design of Embodied Intelligence: A Structured Approach
• Muscle-Reflex Model of Human Locomotion Entrains to Mechanical Perturbations
• Daß: Distributable and Scalable Simulation of Robotic Applications
• Mobile 3D Printing Robot Simulation with Viscoelastic Fluids

Social Human-Robot Interaction

• Advocating Attitudinal Change through Android Robot's Intention-Based Expressive Behaviors: Towards WHO COVID-19 Guidelines Adherence
• Text-Based Robot Emotion and Human-Like Emotional Transition
• Personalization of Human-Robot Gestural Communication through Voice Interaction Grounding
• "Pretending to Be Okay in a Sad Voice": Social Robot’s Usage of Verbal and Nonverbal Cue Combination and Its Effect on Human Empathy and Behavior Inducement
• Pain Expression-Based Visual Feedback Method for Care Training Assistant Robot with Musculoskeletal Symptoms
• A Unified Bi-Directional Model for Natural and Artificial Trust in Human-Robot Collaboration
• Expectations vs. Reality: Unreliability and Transparency in a Treasure Hunt Game with ICub
• Collaborative Storytelling with Social Robots
• An Integrated Approach to Context-Sensitive Moral Cognition in Robot Cognitive Architectures
• Translating Natural Language Instructions to Computer Programs for Robot Manipulation
• Design of Taking a Walk with a Robot That Receives Care from a Person and Indirectly Mediates Communication with Strangers
• Human-Robot Greeting: Tracking Human Greeting Mental States and Acting Accordingly
• A Robot That Encourages Self-Disclosure to Reduce Anger Mood
• Persuasion Strategies for Social Robot to Keep Humans Accepting Daily Different Recommendations
• ROS for Human-Robot Interaction
• Mobile Robot Yielding Cues for Human-Robot Spatial Interaction
• Semantic-Based Explainable AI: Leveraging Semantic Scene Graphs and Pairwise Ranking to Explain Robot Failures
• The Effects of Conversational Contexts and Forms of Non-Lexical Backchannel on User’s Perception of the Robot
• Using an Android Robot to Improve Social Connectedness by Sharing Recent Experiences of Group Members in Human-Robot Conversations
• Exploring Consequential Robot Sound: Should We Make Robots Quiet and Kawaii-Et?
• Drones in Wonderland -- Disentangling Collocated Interaction Using Radical Form

Soft Robot Applications

• Laser Endoscopic Manipulator Using Spring-Reinforced Multi-DoF Soft Actuator
• Inverse Dynamics Model-Based Shape Control of Soft Continuum Finger Robot Using Parametric Curve
• Soft Robotic Oscillators with Strain-Based Coordination
• SoMo: Fast and Accurate Simulations of Continuum Robots in Complex Environments
• Toward State-Unsaturation Guaranteed Fault Detection Method in Visual Servoing of Soft Robot Manipulators
• Fuzzy-Depth Objects Grasping Based on FSG Algorithm and Soft Robotic Hand
• Deformable Elasto-Plastic Object Shaping Using an Elastic Hand and Model-Based Reinforcement Learning

Soft Robot Materials and Design

• Two-Sheet Type Rotary-Driven Thin Bending Mechanism Realizing High Stiffness
• Turning an Articulated 3-PPSR Manipulator into a Parallel Continuum Robot
• Origami-Inspired Robot That Swims Via Jet Propulsion
• Multifunctional Robotic Glove with Active-Passive Training Modes for Hand Rehabilitation and Assistance
• S-Climbot: A Soft Robot with Novel Grippers and Rigid-Compliantly Constrained Body for Climbing on Various Poles
• Soft Retraction Device and Internal Camera Mount for Everting Vine Robots
• Partial Formation of Hydroxyapatite on Poly (Vinyl Alcohol) Hydrogel for Intensive Motions of Biomimetic Soft Robots
• Development of a Permanent Magnet Elastomer (PME) Infused Soft Robot Skin for Tactile Sensing
• Wide-Bandwidth Soft Vibrotactile Interface Using Electrohydraulic Actuator for Haptic Steering Wheel Application
• Design and Feasibility Analysis of a Foldable Robot Arm for Drones Using a Twisted String Actuator: FRAD-TSA
• Analytical Design of a Pneumatic Elastomer Robot with Deterministically Adjusted Stiffness
• Design and Validation of a New Family of Bio-Inspired 3D-Printable Structurally-Programmable Soft Robots
• Shape Recognition of a Tensegrity with Soft Sensor Threads and Artificial Muscles Using a Recurrent Neural Network
• Origami Logic Gates for Printable Robots
• SPHR: A Soft Pneumatic Hybrid Robot with Extreme Shape Changing and Lifting Abilities

Soft Sensors and Actuators

• EPM–MRE: Electropermanent Magnet–Magnetorheological Elastomer for Soft Actuation System and Its Application to Robotic Grasping
• Double Helical Soft Pneumatic Actuator Capable of Generating Complex 3D Torsional Motions
• Bistable Valves for Magnetorheological Fluid-Based Soft Robotic Actuation Systems
• Wireless Powered Dielectric Elastomer Actuator
• Reducing the Influence of the Contact Area on a Soft Capacitive Force Sensor
• Dynamic Hand Gesture Recognition Using a Stretchable Multi-Layer Capacitive Array, Proximity Sensing, and a SVM Classifier
• Estimating the Shape of Soft Pneumatic Actuators Using Active Vibroacoustic Sensing

Software and Hardware

• Smart Pointers and Shared Memory Synchronisation for Efficient Inter-Process Communication in ROS on an Autonomous Vehicle
• Human-Aware Navigation Planner for Diverse Human-Robot Interaction Contexts
• CompROS: A Composable ROS2 Based Architecture for Real-Time Embedded Robotic Development
• Arena-Rosnav: Towards Deployment of Deep-Reinforcement-Learning-BasedObstacle Avoidance into Conventional Autonomous NavigationSystems
• Efficient Computation of Map-Scale Continuous Mutual Information on Chip in Real Time
• Data-Driven Energy Estimation of Individual Instructions in User-Defined Robot Programs for Collaborative Robots
• DQ Robotics: A Library for Robot Modeling and Control (I)
• Grasping Robot Integration and Prototyping: The GRIP Software Framework (I)

Space Robotics and Automation

• Towards Robust Monocular Visual Odometry for Flying Robots on Planetary Missions
• Stereo Perception in the Dark Using Uncalibrated Line Laser
• Enhancing Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Images Via Multi-Frame Super Resolution for Future Robotic Space Missions
• Multi-Modal Loop Closing in Unstructured Planetary Environments with Visually Enriched Submaps
• Online Information-Aware Motion Planning with Inertial Parameter Learning for Robotic Free-Flyers
• Surface Sliding Behavior Analysis of Space Probes in Simulated Extraterrestrial Environments
• A Compliant Partitioned Shared Control Strategy for an Orbital Robot
• Compliant Floating-Base Control of Space Robots

Surgical Robotics

• Autonomous Bi-Manual Surgical Suturing Based on Skills Learned from Demonstration
• Safe Reinforcement Learning Using Formal Verification for Tissue Retraction in Autonomous Robotic-Assisted Surgery
• Fall Detection for Robotic Endoscope Holders in Minimally Invasive Surgery
• Pre-Operative Offline Optimization of Insertion Point Location for Safe and Accurate Surgical Task Execution
• Globally Optimal Fetoscopic Mosaicking Based on Pose Graph Optimisation with Affine Constraints
• Fusion of Biplane Fluoroscopy with Fiber Bragg Grating for 3D Catheter Shape Reconstruction
• Position-Based Dynamics Simulator of Brain Deformations for Path Planning and Intra-Operative Control in Keyhole Neurosurgery

Swarm Robotics

• A Decentralized Cluster Formation Containment Framework for Multirobot Systems (I)
• Sniffy Bug: A Fully Autonomous Swarm of Gas-Seeking Nano Quadcopters in Cluttered Environments
• Personalized Human-Swarm Interaction through Hand Motion
• Towards a Passive Self-Assembling Macroscale Multi-Robot System
• Decentralized Localization in Homogeneous Swarms Considering Real-World Non-Idealities
• Cooperative Object Transportation Using Gibbs Random Fields
• Extension of Flocking Models to Environments with Obstacles and Degraded Communications
• MicROS.BT: An Event-Driven Behavior Tree Framework for Swarm Robots

Task and Motion Planning

• Prioritized Indoor Exploration with a Dynamic Deadline
• Assembly Planning by Recognizing a Graphical Instruction Manual
• Optimal Planning Over Long and Infinite Horizons for Achieving Independent Partially-Observable Tasks That Evolve Over Time
• Probabilistic Inference in Planning for Partially Observable Long Horizon Problems
• Intelligent Execution through Plan Analysis
• A General Task and Motion Planning Framework for Multiple Manipulators
• Spatial Action Maps Augmented with Visit Frequency Maps for Exploration Tasks
• Learning Symbolic Operators for Task and Motion Planning

Telerobotics and Teleoperation

• Miniature Tangible Cube: Concept and Design of Target-Object-Oriented User Interface for Dual-Arm Telemanipulation
• Cursor-Based Robot Tele-Manipulation through 2D-To-SE2 Interfaces
• Mobile Teleoperation: Feasibility of Wireless Wearable Sensing of the Operator's Arm Motion
• Drawing Elon Musk: A Robot Avatar for Remote Manipulation
• Analysis of User Preferences for Robot Motions in Immersive Telepresence
• A Reconfigurable Interface for Ergonomic and Dynamic Tele-Locomanipulation
• Safety-Oriented Teleoperation Framework for Contact-Rich Tasks in Hazardous Workspaces
• QoE-Driven Delay-Adaptive Control Scheme Switching for Time-Delayed Bilateral Teleoperation with Haptic Data Reduction
• Passivity-Based Control for Haptic Teleoperation of a Legged Manipulator in Presence of Time-Delays
• SnakeRaven: Teleoperation of a 3D Printed Snake-Like Manipulator Integrated to the RAVEN II Surgical Robot
• Position Synchronization through the Energy-Reflection Based Time Domain Passivity Approach in Position-Position Architectures
• Learning to Guide Human Attention on Mobile Telepresence Robots with 360 Vision
• Learning to Arbitrate Human and Robot Control Using Disagreement between Sub-Policies
• NimbRo Avatar: Interactive Immersive Telepresence with Force-Feedback Telemanipulation

Transfer Learning

• Delay Aware Universal Notice Network : Real World Multi-Robot Transfer Learning
• Domain Curiosity: Learning Efficient Data Collection Strategies for Domain Adaptation
• Knowledge Transfer across Imaging Modalities Via Simultaneous Learning of Adaptive Autoencoders for High-Fidelity Mobile Robot Vision
• Bayesian Meta-Learning for Few-Shot Policy Adaptation across Robotic Platforms
• Shaping Progressive Net of Reinforcement Learning for Policy Transfer with Human Evaluative Feedback
• A Conformal Mapping-Based Framework for Robot-To-Robot and Sim-To-Real Transfer Learning
• On Explainability and Sensor-Adaptability of a Robot Tactile Texture Representation Using a Two-Stage Recurrent Networks

Underactuated & Redundant Robots

• Streamlined Tuning Procedure for Stable PID Control of Flexible-Base Manipulators
• RRT-Based Path Planning for Follow-The-Leader Motion of Hyper-Redundant Manipulators
• Anisotropic Disturbance Rejection for Kinematically Redundant Systems with Applications on an UVMS
• Tension Control Method Utilizing Antagonistic Tension to Enlarge the Workspace of Coupled Tendon-Driven Articulated Manipulator
• Momentum Based Whole-Body Optimal Planning for a Single-Spherical-Wheeled Balancing Mobile Manipulator
• Design Optimization of Musculoskeletal Humanoids with Maximization of Redundancy to Compensate for Muscle Rupture
• Supervised Autonomy for Remote Teleoperation of Hybrid Wheel-Legged Mobile Manipulator Robots
• Fuzzy PID Controller Based on Yaw Angle Prediction of a Spherical Robot

Vision-Based Navigation

• Motion Field Consensus with Locality Preservation: A Geometric Confirmation Strategy for Loop Closure Detection
• Re-Attention Is All You Need: Memory-Efficient Scene Text Detection Via Re-Attention on Uncertain Regions
• Trajectory-Constrained Deep Latent Visual Attention for Improved Local Planning in Presence of Heterogeneous Terrain
• Towards Generalization in Target-Driven Visual Navigation by Using Deep Reinforcement Learning (I)
• Learning Navigation Skills for Legged Robots with Learned Robot Embeddings
• NavTuner: Learning a Scene-Sensitive Family of Navigation Policies
• Fast and Robust Bio-Inspired Teach and Repeat Navigation
• POMP++: Pomcp-Based Active Visual Search in Unknown Indoor Environments
• DT-Loc: Monocular Visual Localization on HD Vector Map Using Distance Transforms of 2D Semantic Detections
• Probabilistic Visual Navigation with Bidirectional Image Prediction
• FAITH: Fast Iterative Half-Plane Focus of Expansion Estimation Using Optic Flow
• Mapless Humanoid Navigation Using Learned Latent Dynamics
• Success Weighted by Completion Time: A Dynamics-Aware Evaluation Criteria for Embodied Navigation
• A Bio-Inspired Multi-Sensor System for Robust Orientation and Position Estimation
• Monocular Teach-And-Repeat Navigation Using a Deep Steering Network with Scale Estimation
• Self-Supervised Scale Recovery for Monocular Depth and Egomotion Estimation
• Assembly Action Understanding from Fine-Grained Hand Motions, a Multi-Camera and Deep Learning Approach
• Robust and Long-Term Monocular Teach-And-Repeat Navigationusing a Single-Experience Map
• Self Attention Guided Depth Completion Using RGB and SparseLiDAR Point Clouds
• Laser-Based Side-By-Side Following for Human-Following Robots
• Deep Leg Tracking by Detection and Gait Analysis in 2D Range Data for Intelligent Robotic Assistants

Visual Learning

• ADD: A Fine-Grained Dynamic Inference Architecture for Semantic Image Segmentation
• COINet: Adaptive Segmentation with Co-Interactive Network for Autonomous Driving
• Category-Level 6D Object Pose Estimation Via Cascaded Relation and Recurrent Reconstruction Networks
• Scanline Resolution-Invariant Depth Completion Using a Single Image and Sparse LiDAR Point Cloud
• Unknown Object Segmentation from Stereo Images
• Object Learning for 6D Pose Estimation and Grasping from RGB-D Videos of In-Hand Manipulation
• Online Monitoring of Object Detection Performance During Deployment
• OPEn: An Open-Ended Physics Environment for Learning without a Task
• Fast and Unsupervised 3D-CNN Based Non-Local Feature Learning for Direct Volume Rendering of 3D Medical Images
• Self-Supervised Optical Flow with Spiking Neural Networks and Event Based Cameras
• DA4Event: Towards Bridging the Sim-To-Real Gap for Event Cameras Using Domain Adaptation
• Accurate Grid Keypoint Learning for Efficient Video Prediction
• Improving Monocular Depth Estimation by Semantic Pre-Training
• 3D Segmentation Learning from Sparse Annotations and Hierarchical Descriptors
• TemporalFusion: Temporal Motion Reasoning with Multi-Frame Fusion for 6D Object Pose Estimation

Visual Servoing

• Mind Control of a Service Robot with Visual Servoing
• Sampling-Based MPC for Constrained Vision Based Control
• A Real-Time State Dependent Region Estimator for Autonomous Endoscope Navigation (I)
• Image-Based Visual Servoing of Rotorcrafts to Planar Visual Targets of Arbitrary Orientation
• Robot-Assisted Breast Ultrasound Scanning Using Geometrical Analysis of the Seroma and Image Segmentation
• Multi-Scale Laplacian-Based FMM for Shape Control
• RTVS: A Lightweight Differentiable MPC Framework for Real-Time Visual Servoing

Visual Tracking

• Joint Multi-Object Detection and Tracking with Camera-LiDAR Fusion for Autonomous Driving
• Powerline Tracking with Event Cameras
• Improvement of Optical Flow Estimation by Using the Hampel Filter for Low-End Embedded Systems
• Real-Time Outdoor Illumination Estimation for Camera Tracking in Indoor Environments
• CRACT: Cascaded Regression-Align-Classification for Robust Tracking
• Dynamic Event Camera Calibration
• PointSiamRCNN: Target-Aware Voxel-Based Siamese Tracker for Point Clouds
• Improving Object Permanence Using Agent Actions and Reasoning
• Multi-Variable State Prediction: HMM Based Approach for Real-Time Trajectory Prediction
• Towards Robust Human Trajectory Prediction in Raw Videos
• BundleTrack: 6D Pose Tracking for Novel Objects without Instance or Category-Level 3D Models
• Model-Free Vehicle Tracking and State Estimation in Point Cloud Sequences
• Score Refinement for Confidence-Based 3D Multi-Object Tracking
• A High-Accuracy Fiducial Marker with Parallel Lenticular Angle Gauges

Visual-Inertial SLAM

• Stereo Visual Inertial Odometry for Robots with Limited Computational Resources
• Feature-Aided Bundle Adjustment Learning Framework for Self-Supervised Monocular Visual Odometry
• Accurate Visual-Inertial SLAM by Feature Re-Identification
• PLF-VINS: Real-Time Monocular Visual-Inertial SLAM with Point-Line Fusion and Parallel-Line Fusion
• Sampson Distance: A New Approach to Improving Visual-Inertial Odometry's Accuracy
• A Comparison of Modern General-Purpose Visual SLAM Approaches
• RP-VIO: Robust Plane-Based Visual-Inertial Odometry for Dynamic Environments
• A Visual Inertial Odometry Framework for 3D Points, Lines and Planes

Wearable Robotics

• Wearable Tactile Sensor Suit for Natural Body Dynamics Extraction: Case Study on Posture Prediction Based on Physical Reservoir Computing
• Method for the Determination of Relative Joint Axes for Wearable Inertial Sensor Applications
• Evaluation of Lumbar Burdens for Endoskeleton-Type Assist Suit Based on Musculoskeletal Model and Its Improvement of the Utility
• Exo-Muscle: A Semi-Rigid Assistive Device for the Knee
• Estimating the Center of Mass of Human-Exoskeleton Systems with Physically Coupled Serial Chain
• A Soft Assistive Device for Elbow Effort-Compensation
• Gaussian Process Regression for COP Trajectory Estimation in Healthy and Pathological Gait Using Instrumented Insoles
• Learning Fingertip Force to Grasp Deformable Objects for Soft Wearable Robotic Glove with TSM

Wheeled Robots

• Development of an Agile Omnidirectional Mobile Robot with Gravity Compensated Wheel-Leg Mechanisms for Human Environment
• Continuous Robust Trajectory Tracking Control for Autonomous Ground Vehicles Considering Lateral and Longitudinal Kinematics and Dynamics Via Recursive Backstepping
• Sub-Optimal and Robust Path Tracking: A Geometric Approach
• Whole-Body MPC and Online Gait Sequence Generation for Wheeled-Legged Robots
• Design and Analysis of a Bi-Directional Transformable Wheel Robot Trimode
• Environmentally Adaptive Control Including Variance Minimization Using Stochastic Predictive Network with Parametric Bias: Application to Mobile Robots
• Traversability-Based Trajectory Planning with Quasi-Dynamic Vehicle Model in Loose Soil