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Kairos: Grounded Forecasting of Presence and Directional Flow in 4D Scene Graphs
Iacopo Catalano, Julio A. Placed, Javier Civera +1
Long-term autonomy in human-populated environments requires anticipating whether and how people will move at times a robot has not yet observed. Existing representations of pedestr…
Gripper-aware Vision Language Action Models
Hanyi Zhang, Zihong Luo, Tianyu Li +16
Vision language action models (VLAs) have advanced general purpose robotic grasping and manipulation by enabling robots to interpret visual observations and natural language instru…
Occupancy-Grounded Room Segmentation for Hierarchical 3D Scene Graphs
Carlos Cueto Zumaya, Iacopo Catalano, Jorge Peña-Queralta +1
Hierarchical 3D scene graphs (3DSGs) for indoor robots organize geometric and semantic information across spatial scales, with a room layer that connects object-level perception to…
Rheos: Modelling Continuous Motion Dynamics in Hierarchical 3D Scene Graphs
Iacopo Catalano, Francesco Verdoja, Javier Civera +2
3D Scene Graphs (3DSGs) provide hierarchical, multi-resolution abstractions that encode the geometric and semantic structure of an environment, yet their treatment of dynamics rema…
EgoMoD: Predicting Global Maps of Dynamics from Local Egocentric Observations
Iacopo Catalano, David Morilla-Cabello, Jorge Pena-Queralta +1
Efficient navigation in dynamic environments requires anticipating how motion patterns evolve beyond the robot's immediate perceptual range, enabling preemptive rather than purely…
Aion: Towards Hierarchical 4D Scene Graphs with Temporal Flow Dynamics
Iacopo Catalano, Eduardo Montijano, Javier Civera +2
Autonomous navigation in dynamic environments requires spatial representations that capture both semantic structure and temporal evolution. 3D Scene Graphs (3DSGs) provide hierarch…
Follow-Me in Micro-Mobility with End-to-End Imitation Learning
Sahar Salimpour, Iacopo Catalano, Tomi Westerlund +2
Autonomous micro-mobility platforms face challenges from the perspective of the typical deployment environment: large indoor spaces or urban areas that are potentially crowded and…
ROSBag MCP Server: Analyzing Robot Data with LLMs for Agentic Embodied AI Applications
Lei Fu, Sahar Salimpour, Leonardo Militano +3
Agentic AI systems and Physical or Embodied AI systems have been two key research verticals at the forefront of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, with Model Context Protocol (M…
Towards Embodied Agentic AI: Review and Classification of LLM- and VLM-Driven Robot Autonomy and Interaction
Sahar Salimpour, Lei Fu, Kajetan Rachwał +8
Foundation models, including large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (VLMs), have recently enabled novel approaches to robot autonomy and human-robot interfaces. In…
Shared Control of Holonomic Wheelchairs through Reinforcement Learning
Jannis Bähler, Diego Paez-Granados, Jorge Peña-Queralta
Smart electric wheelchairs can improve user experience by supporting the driver with shared control. State-of-the-art work showed the potential of shared control in improving safet…
Sim-to-Real Transfer for Mobile Robots with Reinforcement Learning: from NVIDIA Isaac Sim to Gazebo and Real ROS 2 Robots
Sahar Salimpour, Jorge Peña-Queralta, Diego Paez-Granados +2
Unprecedented agility and dexterous manipulation have been demonstrated with controllers based on deep reinforcement learning (RL), with a significant impact on legged and humanoid…
Towards Robust UAV Tracking in GNSS-Denied Environments: A Multi-LiDAR Multi-UAV Dataset
Iacopo Catalano, Xianjia Yu, Jorge Pena Queralta
With the increasing prevalence of drones in various industries, the navigation and tracking of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in challenging environments, particularly GNSS-denied…
Exploiting Local Observations for Robust Robot Learning
Wenshuai Zhao, Eetu-Aleksi Rantala, Sahar Salimpour +3
While many robotic tasks can be addressed using either centralized single-agent control with full state observation or decentralized multi-agent control, clear criteria for choosin…
A Customizable Conflict Resolution and Attribute-Based Access Control Framework for Multi-Robot Systems
Salma Salimi, Farhad Keramat, Tomi Westerlund +1
As multi-robot systems continue to advance and become integral to various applications, managing conflicts and ensuring secure access control are critical challenges that need to b…
Benchmarking UWB-Based Infrastructure-Free Positioning and Multi-Robot Relative Localization: Dataset and Characterization
Paola Torrico Morón, Sahar Salimpour, Lei Fu +3
Ultra-wideband (UWB) positioning has emerged as a low-cost and dependable localization solution for multiple use cases, from mobile robots to asset tracking within the Industrial I…
Evaluating the Performance of Multi-Scan Integration for UAV LiDAR-based Tracking
Iacopo Catalano, Jorge Peña Queralta, Tomi Westerlund
Drones have become essential tools in a wide range of industries, including agriculture, surveying, and transportation. However, tracking unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in challen…
Simulation Analysis of Exploration Strategies and UAV Planning for Search and Rescue
Phuoc Nguyen Thuan, Jorge Peña Queralta, Tomi Westerlund
Aerial scans with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are becoming more widely adopted across industries, from smart farming to urban mapping. An application area that can leverage the…
Is Alice Really in Wonderland? UWB-Based Proof of Location for UAVs with Hyperledger Fabric Blockchain
Lei Fu, Paola Torrico Morón, Jorge Peña Queralta +3
Remote identification of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is becoming increasingly important since more UAVs are being widely used for different needs in urban areas. For example, i…
Event-driven Fabric Blockchain -- ROS 2 Interface: Towards Secure and Auditable Teleoperation of Mobile Robots
Lei Fu, Salma Salimi, Jorge Peña Queralta +1
The integration of blockchain technology in robotic systems has been met by the community with a combination of hype and skepticism. The current literature shows that there is inde…
UAV Tracking with Solid-State Lidars:Dynamic Multi-Frequency Scan Integration
Iacopo Catalano, Ha Sier, Xianjia Yu +2
With the increasing use of drones across various industries, the navigation and tracking of these unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in challenging environments (such as GNSS-denied e…
Fusing Odometry, UWB Ranging, and Spatial Detections for Relative Multi-Robot Localization
Xianjia Yu, Iacopo Catalano, Paola Torrico Morón +3
This letter presents a cooperative relative multi-robot localization design and experimental study. We propose a flexible Monte Carlo approach leveraging a particle filter to estim…
Robust Multi-Modal Multi-LiDAR-Inertial Odometry and Mapping for Indoor Environments
Li Qingqing, Yu Xianjia, Jorge Peña Queralta +1
Integrating multiple LiDAR sensors can significantly enhance a robot's perception of the environment, enabling it to capture adequate measurements for simultaneous localization and…
UAV Tracking with Lidar as a Camera Sensors in GNSS-Denied Environments
Ha Sier, Xianjia Yu, Iacopo Catalano +3
LiDAR has become one of the primary sensors in robotics and autonomous system for high-accuracy situational awareness. In recent years, multi-modal LiDAR systems emerged, and among…
Distributed Ledger Technologies for Managing Heterogenous Computing Systems at the Edge
Daniel Montero Hernández, Jorge Peña Queralta, Tomi Westerlund
The increased use of Internet of Things (IoT) devices -- from basic sensors to robust embedded computers -- has boosted the demand for information processing and storing solutions…