6 papers
Tire Wear Aware Trajectory Tracking Control for Multi-axle Swerve-drive Autonomous Mobile Robots
Tianxin Hu, Xinhang Xu, Thien-Minh Nguyen +3
Multi-axle Swerve-drive Autonomous Mobile Robots (MS-AGVs) equipped with independently steerable wheels are commonly used for high-payload transportation. In this work, we present…
MM-LINS: a Multi-Map LiDAR-Inertial System for Over-Degenerate Environments
Yongxin Ma, Jie Xu, Shenghai Yuan +4
SLAM plays a crucial role in automation tasks, such as warehouse logistics, healthcare robotics, and restaurant delivery. These scenes come with various challenges, including navig…
Disturbance Observer-Parameterized Control Barrier Function with Adaptive Safety Bounds
Ziqi Yang, Lihua Xie
This letter presents a nonlinear disturbance observer-parameterized control barrier function (DOp-CBF) designed for a robust safety control system under external disturbances. This…
I2EKF-LO: A Dual-Iteration Extended Kalman Filter Based LiDAR Odometry
Wenlu Yu, Jie Xu, Chengwei Zhao +5
LiDAR odometry is a pivotal technology in the fields of autonomous driving and autonomous mobile robotics. However, most of the current works focus on nonlinear optimization method…
UP-CrackNet: Unsupervised Pixel-Wise Road Crack Detection via Adversarial Image Restoration
Nachuan Ma, Rui Fan, Lihua Xie
Over the past decade, automated methods have been developed to detect cracks more efficiently, accurately, and objectively, with the ultimate goal of replacing conventional manual…
Salient Sparse Visual Odometry With Pose-Only Supervision
Siyu Chen, Kangcheng Liu, Chen Wang +3
Visual Odometry (VO) is vital for the navigation of autonomous systems, providing accurate position and orientation estimates at reasonable costs. While traditional VO methods exce…