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Manipulider: A Multi-Engine Buoyancy-Controlled Robot for Thrusterless Underwater Gliding and Manipulation
Yitao Jiang, Yewei Huang, Weizhi Cao +5
The Manipulider is a buoyancy-actuated underwater robot that enables thrusterless, glide-like locomotion and attitude-based manipulation, while providing a magnetic modular interfa…
SGM-SLAM: Scene Graph Matching for Data-Efficient Distributed SLAM
Yewei Huang, Tixiao Shan, Abhinav Rajvanshi +4
We introduce a data-efficient distributed Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) framework for multi-robot operation in GPS-denied and communication-constrained environments.…
Variable-Resolution Virtual Maps for Autonomous Exploration with Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs)
Ye Li, Yewei Huang, Yongchang Xie +4
Autonomous exploration by unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) in near-shore waters requires reliable localisation and consistent mapping over extended areas, but this is challenged by…
Underwater Dense Mapping with the First Compact 3D Sonar
Chinmay Burgul, Yewei Huang, Michalis Chatzispyrou +3
In the past decade, the adoption of compact 3D range sensors, such as LiDARs, has driven the developments of robust state-estimation pipelines, making them a standard sensor for ae…
Active Tracking of Marine Pollution Sources: An Uncertainty-Aware Categorical Bayesian Framework for Unmanned Surface Vehicles
Song Ma, Yanchao Wang, Yewei Huang +2
This paper presents an uncertainty-aware framework for the active tracking of marine pollution sources using Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs). The proposed framework employs an Inf…
CVD-SfM: A Cross-View Deep Front-end Structure-from-Motion System for Sparse Localization in Multi-Altitude Scenes
Yaxuan Li, Yewei Huang, Bijay Gaudel +2
We present a novel multi-altitude camera pose estimation system, addressing the challenges of robust and accurate localization across varied altitudes when only considering sparse…
DRACo-SLAM2: Distributed Robust Acoustic Communication-efficient SLAM for Imaging Sonar EquippedUnderwater Robot Teams with Object Graph Matching
Yewei Huang, John McConnell, Xi Lin +1
We present DRACo-SLAM2, a distributed SLAM framework for underwater robot teams equipped with multibeam imaging sonar. This framework improves upon the original DRACo-SLAM by intro…
Distributional Reinforcement Learning based Integrated Decision Making and Control for Autonomous Surface Vehicles
Xi Lin, Paul Szenher, Yewei Huang +1
With the growing demands for Autonomous Surface Vehicles (ASVs) in recent years, the number of ASVs being deployed for various maritime missions is expected to increase rapidly in…
Multi-Robot Autonomous Exploration and Mapping Under Localization Uncertainty with Expectation-Maximization
Yewei Huang, Xi Lin, Brendan Englot
We propose an autonomous exploration algorithm designed for decentralized multi-robot teams, which takes into account map and localization uncertainties of range-sensing mobile rob…
Decentralized Multi-Robot Navigation for Autonomous Surface Vehicles with Distributional Reinforcement Learning
Xi Lin, Yewei Huang, Fanfei Chen +1
Collision avoidance algorithms for Autonomous Surface Vehicles (ASV) that follow the Convention on the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (COLREGs) have bee…
MAC: Graph Sparsification by Maximizing Algebraic Connectivity
Kevin Doherty, Alan Papalia, Yewei Huang +3
Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is a critical capability in autonomous navigation, but memory and computational limits make long-term application of common SLAM techni…
DRACo-SLAM: Distributed Robust Acoustic Communication-efficient SLAM for Imaging Sonar Equipped Underwater Robot Teams
John McConnell, Yewei Huang, Paul Szenher +2
An essential task for a multi-robot system is generating a common understanding of the environment and relative poses between robots. Cooperative tasks can be executed only when a…
Virtual Maps for Autonomous Exploration of Cluttered Underwater Environments
Jinkun Wang, Fanfei Chen, Yewei Huang +3
We consider the problem of autonomous mobile robot exploration in an unknown environment, taking into account a robot's coverage rate, map uncertainty, and state estimation uncerta…
Zero-Shot Reinforcement Learning on Graphs for Autonomous Exploration Under Uncertainty
Fanfei Chen, Paul Szenher, Yewei Huang +4
This paper studies the problem of autonomous exploration under localization uncertainty for a mobile robot with 3D range sensing. We present a framework for self-learning a high-pe…
Autonomous Exploration Under Uncertainty via Deep Reinforcement Learning on Graphs
Fanfei Chen, John D. Martin, Yewei Huang +2
We consider an autonomous exploration problem in which a range-sensing mobile robot is tasked with accurately mapping the landmarks in an a priori unknown environment efficiently i…