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SAHA: Supervised Autonomous HArvester for selective forest thinning
Fang Nan, Meher Malladi, Qingqing Li +7
Forestry plays a vital role in our society, creating significant ecological, economic, and recreational value. Efficient forest management involves labor-intensive and complex oper…
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…
A Benchmark for Multi-Modal Lidar SLAM with Ground Truth in GNSS-Denied Environments
Ha Sier, Li Qingqing, Yu Xianjia +3
Lidar-based simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) approaches have obtained considerable success in autonomous robotic systems. This is in part owing to the high-accuracy of…
Multi-Modal Lidar Dataset for Benchmarking General-Purpose Localization and Mapping Algorithms
Qingqing Li, Xianjia Yu, Jorge Peña Queralta +1
Lidar technology has evolved significantly over the last decade, with higher resolution, better accuracy, and lower cost devices available today. In addition, new scanning modaliti…
Adaptive Lidar Scan Frame Integration: Tracking Known MAVs in 3D Point Clouds
Li Qingqing, Yu Xianjia, Jorge Peña Queralta +1
Micro-aerial vehicles (MAVs) are becoming ubiquitous across multiple industries and application domains. Lightweight MAVs with only an onboard flight controller and a minimal senso…
Cooperative UWB-Based Localization for Outdoors Positioning and Navigation of UAVs aided by Ground Robots
Yu Xianjia, Li Qingqing, Jorge Pena Queralta +2
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are becoming largely ubiquitous with an increasing demand for aerial data. Accurate navigation and localization, required for precise data collectio…
Applications of UWB Networks and Positioning to Autonomous Robots and Industrial Systems
Xianjia Yu, Qingqing Li, Jorge Peña Queralta +2
Ultra-wideband (UWB) technology is a mature technology that contested other wireless technologies in the advent of the IoT but did not achieve the same levels of widespread adoptio…
Multi Sensor Fusion for Navigation and Mapping in Autonomous Vehicles: Accurate Localization in Urban Environments
Li Qingqing, Jorge Peña Queralta, Tuan Nguyen Gia +2
The combination of data from multiple sensors, also known as sensor fusion or data fusion, is a key aspect in the design of autonomous robots. In particular, algorithms able to acc…
Towards Large-Scale Scalable MAV Swarms with ROS2 and UWB-based Situated Communication
Jorge Peña Queralta, Yu Xianjia, Li Qingqing +1
The design and development of swarms of micro-aerial vehicles (MAVs) has recently gained significant traction. Collaborative aerial swarms have potential applications in areas as d…
VIO-UWB-Based Collaborative Localization and Dense Scene Reconstruction within Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Systems
Jorge Peña Queralta, Li Qingqing, Fabrizio Schiano +1
Effective collaboration in multi-robot systems requires accurate and robust estimation of relative localization: from cooperative manipulation to collaborative sensing, and includi…
Secure Encoded Instruction Graphs for End-to-End Data Validation in Autonomous Robots
Jorge Peña Queralta, Li Qingqing, Eduardo Castelló Ferrer +1
As autonomous robots are becoming more widespread, more attention is being paid to the security of robotic operation. Autonomous robots can be seen as cyber-physical systems: they…
Towards Closing the Sim-to-Real Gap in Collaborative Multi-Robot Deep Reinforcement Learning
Wenshuai Zhao, Jorge Peña Queralta, Li Qingqing +1
Current research directions in deep reinforcement learning include bridging the simulation-reality gap, improving sample efficiency of experiences in distributed multi-agent reinfo…
Ubiquitous Distributed Deep Reinforcement Learning at the Edge: Analyzing Byzantine Agents in Discrete Action Spaces
Wenshuai Zhao, Jorge Peña Queralta, Li Qingqing +1
The integration of edge computing in next-generation mobile networks is bringing low-latency and high-bandwidth ubiquitous connectivity to a myriad of cyber-physical systems. This…
Enhancing Autonomy with Blockchain and Multi-Access Edge Computing in Distributed Robotic Systems
Jorge Peña Queralta, Li Qingqing, Zhuo Zou +1
This conceptual paper discusses how different aspects involving the autonomous operation of robots and vehicles will change when they have access to next-generation mobile networks…
Localization in Unstructured Environments: Towards Autonomous Robots in Forests with Delaunay Triangulation
Qingqing Li, Paavo Nevalainen, Jorge Peña Queralta +2
Autonomous harvesting and transportation is a long-term goal of the forest industry. One of the main challenges is the accurate localization of both vehicles and trees in a forest.…