Robotics

Authors and titles for December 2018

[1] arXiv:1812.00063 [pdf, other]

Title: Flight Recovery of MAVs with Compromised IMU

Zhan Tu, Fan Fei, Matthew Eagon, Dongyan Xu, Xinyan Deng

Comments: Removed trivial experiments from v1. Accepted by IROS 2019

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO)

[2] arXiv:1812.00252 [pdf, other]

Title: LSTM-based Network for Human Gait Stability Prediction in an Intelligent Robotic Rollator

Georgia Chalvatzaki, Petros Koutras, Jack Hadfield, Xanthi S. Papageorgiou, Costas S. Tzafestas, Petros Maragos

Comments: 8 pages, 4 figures accepted to ICRA 2019

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[3] arXiv:1812.00253 [pdf, other]

Title: A Deep Learning Approach for Multi-View Engagement Estimation of Children in a Child-Robot Joint Attention task

Jack Hadfield, Georgia Chalvatzaki, Petros Koutras, Mehdi Khamassi, Costas S. Tzafestas, Petros Maragos

Comments: 7 pages, 6 figures

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[4] arXiv:1812.00464 [pdf, other]

Title: Teleoperation of a Humanoid Robot with Motion Imitation and Legged Locomotion

Aditya Sripada, Harish Asokan, Abhishek Warrier, Arpit Kapoor, Harshit Gaur, Sridhar R

Comments: 5 pages, 9 figures, Presented at the International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Mechatronics 2018

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO)

[5] arXiv:1812.00568 [pdf, other]

Title: Visual Foresight: Model-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Based Robotic Control

Frederik Ebert, Chelsea Finn, Sudeep Dasari, Annie Xie, Alex Lee, Sergey Levine

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[6] arXiv:1812.00606 [pdf, other]

Title: General Support-Effective Decomposition for Multi-Directional 3D Printing

Chenming Wu, Chengkai Dai, Guoxin Fang, Yong-Jin Liu, Charlie C.L. Wang

Comments: 12 pages

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO); Graphics (cs.GR)

[7] arXiv:1812.00650 [pdf, other]

Title: Model Based In Situ Calibration with Temperature compensation of 6 axis Force Torque Sensors

Francisco Javier Andrade Chavez, Gabriele Nava, Silvio Traversaro, Francesco Nori, Daniele Pucci

Comments: Submitted to ICRA 2019

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO)

[8] arXiv:1812.00868 [pdf, other]

Title: Collision-Free Multi Robot Trajectory Optimization in Unknown Environments using Decentralized Trajectory Planning

Vijay Arvindh, Govind Aadithya R, Shravan Krishnan, Sivanathan K

Comments: 6 pages,6 figures. To be Presented at 2018 IEEE 4th International Symposium in Robotics and Manufacturing Automation (ROMA)

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO); Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)

[9] arXiv:1812.01127 [pdf, other]

Title: Learning to Predict Ego-Vehicle Poses for Sampling-Based Nonholonomic Motion Planning

Holger Banzhaf, Paul Sanzenbacher, Ulrich Baumann, J. Marius Zöllner

Comments: Extended version of DOI https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2019.2893975, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2019

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[10] arXiv:1812.01195 [pdf, other]

Title: Sensorless Pose Determination using Randomized Action Sequences

Pragna Mannam, Alexander Volkov Jr., Robert Paolini, Gregory Chirikjian, Matthew T. Mason

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO)

[11] arXiv:1812.01225 [pdf, other]

Title: Learning from Extrapolated Corrections

Jason Y. Zhang, Anca D. Dragan

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO)

[12] arXiv:1812.01537 [pdf, other]

Title: A micro Lie theory for state estimation in robotics

Joan Solà, Jeremie Deray, Dinesh Atchuthan

Comments: 17 pages, 12 figures, 7 boxed examples, 193 numbered equations. V2 add chapter with a application examples. V3 fix biblio, remove reference to manif library. V4 add reference to the C++ library "manif", which is made available with this version 4. V5 fix formulas (163) and (179). V6, V7 fix typos. V8 fix sign in eq 149. V9 fix Ex. 5 and Jacobian 'H' in EKF example

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO)

[13] arXiv:1812.01755 [pdf, other]

Title: The Robot Economy: Here It Comes

Miguel Arduengo, Luis Sentis

Comments: 10 pages, 5 figures

Journal-ref: International Journal of Social Robotics, 2020

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO); Computers and Society (cs.CY)

[14] arXiv:1812.02051 [pdf, other]

Title: Flocking and Target Interception Control for Formations of Nonholonomic Kinematic Agents

Milad Khaledyan, Tairan Liu, Marcio de Queiroz

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO); Dynamical Systems (math.DS)

[15] arXiv:1812.02071 [pdf, other]

Title: Vision-Based High Speed Driving with a Deep Dynamic Observer

Paul Drews, Grady Williams, Brian Goldfain, Evangelos A. Theodorou, James M. Rehg

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO)

[16] arXiv:1812.02193 [pdf, other]

Title: Voluntary Retreat for Decentralized Interference Reduction in Robot Swarms

Siddharth Mayya, Pietro Pierpaoli, Magnus Egerstedt

Comments: 7 pages, 6 figures. Accepted for publication, and will be presented at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2019, Montreal, Canada

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO); Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)

[17] arXiv:1812.02941 [pdf, other]

Title: From pixels to percepts: Highly robust edge perception and contour following using deep learning and an optical biomimetic tactile sensor

Nathan F. Lepora, Alex Church, Conrad De Kerckhove, Raia Hadsell, John Lloyd

Comments: Accepted in RAL and ICRA 2019. N. Lepora and J. Lloyd contributed equally to this work

Journal-ref: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 4(2), 2101-2107, 2019

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO)

[18] arXiv:1812.03079 [pdf, other]

Title: ChauffeurNet: Learning to Drive by Imitating the Best and Synthesizing the Worst

Mayank Bansal, Alex Krizhevsky, Abhijit Ogale

Comments: Video results: this https URL

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[19] arXiv:1812.03163 [pdf, other]

Title: Transfer learning for vision-based tactile sensing

Carmelo Sferrazza, Raffaello D'Andrea

Comments: Accompanying video: this https URL

Journal-ref: Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 7961-7967

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO)

[20] arXiv:1812.03201 [pdf, other]

Title: Residual Reinforcement Learning for Robot Control

Tobias Johannink, Shikhar Bahl, Ashvin Nair, Jianlan Luo, Avinash Kumar, Matthias Loskyll, Juan Aparicio Ojea, Eugen Solowjow, Sergey Levine

Comments: 7 pages

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[21] arXiv:1812.03274 [pdf, other]

Title: Preparatory Manipulation Planning using Automatically Determined Single and Dual Arms

Weiwei Wan, Kensuke Harada, Fumio Kanehiro

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO)

[22] arXiv:1812.03304 [pdf, other]

Title: Real-time Acceleration-continuous Path-constrained Trajectory Planning With Built-in Tradability Between Cruise and Time-optimal Motions

Peiyao Shen, Xuebo Zhang, Yongchun Fang

Comments: 12 pages, 19 figures

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO)

[23] arXiv:1812.03484 [pdf, other]

Title: Speech-Gesture Mapping and Engagement Evaluation in Human Robot Interaction

Bishal Ghosh, Abhinav Dhall, Ekta Singla

Comments: 8 pages, 9 figures, Under review in IRC 2019

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO); Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)

[24] arXiv:1812.03539 [pdf, other]

Title: Monocular and Stereo Cues for Landing Zone Evaluation for Micro UAVs

Rohit Garg, Shichao Yang, Sebastian Scherer

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO)

[25] arXiv:1812.03615 [pdf, other]

Title: Near-optimal Smooth Path Planning for Multisection Continuum Arms

Jiahao Deng, Brandon H. Meng, Iyad Kanj, Isuru S. Godage

Comments: Submitted to 2019 IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft 2019)

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO)

[26] arXiv:1812.03647 [pdf, other]

Title: Factored Pose Estimation of Articulated Objects using Efficient Nonparametric Belief Propagation

Karthik Desingh, Shiyang Lu, Anthony Opipari, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO)

[27] arXiv:1812.03892 [pdf, other]

Title: An Open-Source System for Vision-Based Micro-Aerial Vehicle Mapping, Planning, and Flight in Cluttered Environments

Helen Oleynikova, Christian Lanegger, Zachary Taylor, Michael Pantic, Alexander Millane, Roland Siegwart, Juan Nieto

Journal-ref: An open-source system for vision-based micro-aerial vehicle mapping, planning, and flight in cluttered environments. J. Field Robotics 37(4): 642-666 (2020)

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO)

[28] arXiv:1812.03894 [pdf, other]

Title: Physics-Based Learning for Robotic Environmental Sensing

Reza Khodayi-mehr, Michael M. Zavlanos

Comments: 20 pages, 26 figures

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Machine Learning (stat.ML)

[29] arXiv:1812.04093 [pdf, other]

Title: Stable bin packing of non-convex 3D objects with a robot manipulator

Fan Wang, Kris Hauser

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO)

[30] arXiv:1812.04157 [pdf, other]

Title: Deep Learning for Robotic Mass Transport Cloaking

Reza Khodayi-mehr, Michael M. Zavlanos

Comments: 8 pages, 11 figures, 1 table

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[31] arXiv:1812.04190 [pdf, other]

Title: Optimal Structure Synthesis for Environment Augmenting Robots

Tarik Tosun, Cynthia Sung, Colin McCloskey, Mark Yim

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO)

[32] arXiv:1812.04600 [pdf, other]

Title: Dynamic Walking on Slippery Surfaces: Demonstrating Stable Bipedal Gaits with Planned Ground Slippage

Wen-Loong Ma, Yizhar Or, Aaron D. Ames

Comments: 7 pages, 8 figures, submitted to 2019 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO)

[33] arXiv:1812.04728 [pdf, other]

Title: Guided Exploration of Human Intentions for Human-Robot Interaction

Min Chen, David Hsu, Wee Sun Lee

Comments: Appears at the 13th International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics, 2018

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO)

[34] arXiv:1812.04767 [pdf, other]

Title: TraPHic: Trajectory Prediction in Dense and Heterogeneous Traffic Using Weighted Interactions

Rohan Chandra, Uttaran Bhattacharya, Aniket Bera, Dinesh Manocha

Comments: 10 pages, 5 figures, 3 tables

Journal-ref: IEEE/CVF CVPR, 2019, pp. 8475-8484

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO)

[35] arXiv:1812.04771 [pdf, other]

Title: Robust Optimal Design of Energy Efficient Series Elastic Actuators: Application to a Powered Prosthetic Ankle

Edgar Bolívar, Siavash Rezazadeh, Tyler Summers, Robert D. Gregg

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO)

[36] arXiv:1812.04825 [pdf, other]

Title: Lévy Flight Foraging Hypothesis-based Autonomous Memoryless Search Under Sparse Rewards

Christos Papachristos, Kostas Alexis

Comments: 5 pages, 9 figures, pre-submission

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO)

[37] arXiv:1812.04904 [pdf, other]

Title: Reconfigurable formations of quadrotors on Lissajous curves for surveillance applications

Aseem V. Borkar, Swaroop Hangal, Hemendra Arya, Arpita Sinha, Leena Vachhani

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO)

[38] arXiv:1812.05027 [pdf, other]

Title: Learning with Training Wheels: Speeding up Training with a Simple Controller for Deep Reinforcement Learning

Linhai Xie, Sen Wang, Stefano Rosa, Andrew Markham, Niki Trigoni

Comments: Published in ICRA2018. The code is now available at this https URL

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO)

[39] arXiv:1812.05244 [pdf, other]

Title: Information Processing Capability of Soft Continuum Arms

Estefany A. Torres, Kohei Nakajima, Isuru S. Godage

Comments: Submitted to 2019 IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft 2019)

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO)

[40] arXiv:1812.05256 [pdf, other]

Title: Learning to Communicate: A Machine Learning Framework for Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Robotic Systems

Hyung-Jin Yoon, Huaiyu Chen, Kehan Long, Heling Zhang, Aditya Gahlawat, Donghwan Lee, Naira Hovakimyan

Comments: AIAA SciTech 2019

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)

[41] arXiv:1812.05415 [pdf, other]

Title: Geometrical Stem Detection from Image Data for Precision Agriculture

F. Langer, L. Mandtler, A. Milioto, E. Palazzolo, C. Stachniss

Comments: Note that this work has been published without author's consent by WSEAS TRANSACTIONS on SYSTEMS, so please cite this arxiv paper if you want to reference to our work

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)

[42] arXiv:1812.05489 [pdf, other]

Title: Material Mapping in Unknown Environments using Tapping Sound

Shyam Sundar Kannan, Wonse Jo, Ramviyas Parasuraman, Byung-Cheol Min

Comments: Accepted for publication in IROS 2020, Las Vegas, NV, USA

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO)

[43] arXiv:1812.05752 [pdf, other]

Title: A Commute in Data: The comma2k19 Dataset

Harald Schafer, Eder Santana, Andrew Haden, Riccardo Biasini

Comments: 5 pages, 5 figures

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO)

[44] arXiv:1812.06090 [pdf, other]

Title: Humanoid Robot-Application and Influence

Avishek Choudhury, Huiyang Li, Christopher Greene, Sunanda Perumalla

Journal-ref: Archives of Clinical and Biomedical Research 2 (2018): 198-227

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO); Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)

[45] arXiv:1812.06296 [pdf, other]

Title: Arm Manipulation Planning of Tethered Tools with the Help of a Tool Balancer

Daniel Sanchez, Weiwei Wan, Kensuke Harada

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO)

[46] arXiv:1812.06298 [pdf, other]

Title: Residual Policy Learning

Tom Silver, Kelsey Allen, Josh Tenenbaum, Leslie Kaelbling

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[47] arXiv:1812.06348 [pdf, other]

Title: Enumeration, structural and dimensional synthesis of robotic hands: theory and implementation

Ali Tamimi, Taher Deemyad, Alba Perez-Gracia

Comments: 16 pages, 13 figures

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO)

[48] arXiv:1812.06784 [pdf, other]

Title: Animation Techniques in Human-Robot Interaction User Studies: a Systematic Literature Review

Trenton Schulz, Jim Torresen, Jo Herstad

Comments: 23 pages, 6 tables

Journal-ref: ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, Volume 8, Issue 2, Article 12, 2019

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO); Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)

[49] arXiv:1812.07084 [pdf, other]

Title: Learning Constraints from Demonstrations

Glen Chou, Dmitry Berenson, Necmiye Ozay

Comments: Presented at the Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR), 2018, Mérida, Mexico

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Systems and Control (eess.SY)

[50] arXiv:1812.07221 [pdf, other]

Title: Continuous Trajectory Planning Based on Learning Optimization in High Dimensional Input Space for Serial Manipulators

Shiyu Zhang, Shuling Dai

Comments: 34 pages, 15 figures. Submitted to Artificial Intelligence

Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO); Machine Learning (cs.LG)