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most citedAutomatic Classification of Defective Photovoltaic Module Cells in Electroluminescence Images

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cs.RO2026

The Evaluation Cost of Task Specialization in Evolutionary Multi-Robot Systems

Paolo Leopardi, Heiko Hamann, Jonas Kuckling +1

Task specialization can improve the efficiency of multi-robot systems (MRSs). Previous works have investigated the emergence of task-specialist robot controllers through evolutiona…

cs.RO2026

On the Cost of Evolving Task Specialization in Multi-Robot Systems

Paolo Leopardi, Heiko Hamann, Jonas Kuckling +1

Task specialization can lead to simpler robot behaviors and higher efficiency in multi-robot systems. Previous works have shown the emergence of task specialization during evolutio…

cs.RO2025★ 21 cited

A roadmap for AI in robotics

Aude Billard, Alin Albu-Schaeffer, Michael Beetz +8

AI technologies, including deep learning, large-language models have gone from one breakthrough to the other. As a result, we are witnessing growing excitement in robotics at the p…

cs.RO2025

UPTor: Unified 3D Human Pose Dynamics and Trajectory Prediction for Human-Robot Interaction

Nisarga Nilavadi, Andrey Rudenko, Timm Linder

We introduce a unified approach to forecast the dynamics of human keypoints along with the motion trajectory based on a short sequence of input poses. While many studies address ei…

cs.RO2024★ 3 cited

A Good Foundation is Worth Many Labels: Label-Efficient Panoptic Segmentation

Niclas Vödisch, Kürsat Petek, Markus Käppeler +2

A key challenge for the widespread application of learning-based models for robotic perception is to significantly reduce the required amount of annotated training data while achie…

cs.RO2024★ 17 cited

Automatic Target-Less Camera-LiDAR Calibration From Motion and Deep Point Correspondences

Kürsat Petek, Niclas Vödisch, Johannes Meyer +3

Sensor setups of robotic platforms commonly include both camera and LiDAR as they provide complementary information. However, fusing these two modalities typically requires a highl…

cs.RO2024★ 28 cited

BEVCar: Camera-Radar Fusion for BEV Map and Object Segmentation

Jonas Schramm, Niclas Vödisch, Kürsat Petek +4

Semantic scene segmentation from a bird's-eye-view (BEV) perspective plays a crucial role in facilitating planning and decision-making for mobile robots. Although recent vision-onl…

cs.RO2023★ 29 cited

Collaborative Dynamic 3D Scene Graphs for Automated Driving

Elias Greve, Martin Büchner, Niclas Vödisch +2

Maps have played an indispensable role in enabling safe and automated driving. Although there have been many advances on different fronts ranging from SLAM to semantics, building a…

cs.RO2023★ 3 cited

Fast yet predictable braking manoeuvers for real-time robot control

Mazin Hamad, Jesus Gutierrez-Moreno, Hugo T. M. Kussaba +5

This paper proposes a framework for generating fast, smooth and predictable braking manoeuvers for a controlled robot. The proposed framework integrates two approaches to obtain fe…

cs.RO2023★ 11 cited

The Treachery of Images: Bayesian Scene Keypoints for Deep Policy Learning in Robotic Manipulation

Jan Ole von Hartz, Eugenio Chisari, Tim Welschehold +3

In policy learning for robotic manipulation, sample efficiency is of paramount importance. Thus, learning and extracting more compact representations from camera observations is a…

cs.RO2023★ 26 cited

CoVIO: Online Continual Learning for Visual-Inertial Odometry

Niclas Vödisch, Daniele Cattaneo, Wolfram Burgard +1

Visual odometry is a fundamental task for many applications on mobile devices and robotic platforms. Since such applications are oftentimes not limited to predefined target domains…

cs.RO2023★ 15 cited

CoDEPS: Online Continual Learning for Depth Estimation and Panoptic Segmentation

Niclas Vödisch, Kürsat Petek, Wolfram Burgard +1

Operating a robot in the open world requires a high level of robustness with respect to previously unseen environments. Optimally, the robot is able to adapt by itself to new condi…

cs.RO2022★ 45 cited

PADLoC: LiDAR-Based Deep Loop Closure Detection and Registration Using Panoptic Attention

José Arce, Niclas Vödisch, Daniele Cattaneo +2

A key component of graph-based SLAM systems is the ability to detect loop closures in a trajectory to reduce the drift accumulated over time from the odometry. Most LiDAR-based met…

cs.RO2022★ 34 cited

Continual SLAM: Beyond Lifelong Simultaneous Localization and Mapping Through Continual Learning

Niclas Vödisch, Daniele Cattaneo, Wolfram Burgard +1

Robots operating in the open world encounter various different environments that can substantially differ from each other. This domain gap also poses a challenge for Simultaneous L…