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Semi-Supervised Novelty Detection for Precise Ultra-Wideband Error Signal Prediction
Umberto Albertin, Alessandro Navone, Mauro Martini +1
Ultra-Wideband (UWB) technology is an emerging low-cost solution for localization in a generic environment. However, UWB signal can be affected by signal reflections and non-line-o…
Non-linear Model Predictive Control for Multi-task GPS-free Autonomous Navigation in Vineyards
Matteo Sperti, Marco Ambrosio, Mauro Martini +3
Autonomous navigation is the foundation of agricultural robots. This paper focuses on developing an advanced autonomous navigation system for a rover operating within row-based cro…
GPS-free Autonomous Navigation in Cluttered Tree Rows with Deep Semantic Segmentation
Alessandro Navone, Mauro Martini, Marco Ambrosio +3
Segmentation-based autonomous navigation has recently been presented as an appealing approach to guiding robotic platforms through crop rows without requiring perfect GPS localizat…
Lavender Autonomous Navigation with Semantic Segmentation at the Edge
Alessandro Navone, Fabrizio Romanelli, Marco Ambrosio +3
Achieving success in agricultural activities heavily relies on precise navigation in row crop fields. Recently, segmentation-based navigation has emerged as a reliable technique wh…
Enhancing Navigation Benchmarking and Perception Data Generation for Row-based Crops in Simulation
Mauro Martini, Andrea Eirale, Brenno Tuberga +5
Service robotics is recently enhancing precision agriculture enabling many automated processes based on efficient autonomous navigation solutions. However, data generation and infi…
Autonomous Navigation in Rows of Trees and High Crops with Deep Semantic Segmentation
Alessandro Navone, Mauro Martini, Andrea Ostuni +2
Segmentation-based autonomous navigation has recently been proposed as a promising methodology to guide robotic platforms through crop rows without requiring precise GPS localizati…
Domain Generalization for Crop Segmentation with Standardized Ensemble Knowledge Distillation
Simone Angarano, Mauro Martini, Alessandro Navone +1
In recent years, precision agriculture has gradually oriented farming closer to automation processes to support all the activities related to field management. Service robotics pla…
Online Learning of Wheel Odometry Correction for Mobile Robots with Attention-based Neural Network
Alessandro Navone, Mauro Martini, Simone Angarano +1
Modern robotic platforms need a reliable localization system to operate daily beside humans. Simple pose estimation algorithms based on filtered wheel and inertial odometry often f…
PIC4rl-gym: a ROS2 modular framework for Robots Autonomous Navigation with Deep Reinforcement Learning
Mauro Martini, Andrea Eirale, Simone Cerrato +1
Learning agents can optimize standard autonomous navigation improving flexibility, efficiency, and computational cost of the system by adopting a wide variety of approaches. This w…
Deep Instance Segmentation and Visual Servoing to Play Jenga with a Cost-Effective Robotic System
Luca Marchionna, Giulio Pugliese, Mauro Martini +3
The game of Jenga represents an inspiring benchmark for developing innovative manipulation solutions for complex tasks. Indeed, it encouraged the study of novel robotics methods to…
RL-DWA Omnidirectional Motion Planning for Person Following in Domestic Assistance and Monitoring
Andrea Eirale, Mauro Martini, Marcello Chiaberge
Robot assistants are emerging as high-tech solutions to support people in everyday life. Following and assisting the user in the domestic environment requires flexible mobility to…
Ultra-low-power Range Error Mitigation for Ultra-wideband Precise Localization
Simone Angarano, Francesco Salvetti, Vittorio Mazzia +3
Precise and accurate localization in outdoor and indoor environments is a challenging problem that currently constitutes a significant limitation for several practical applications…
Generative Adversarial Super-Resolution at the Edge with Knowledge Distillation
Simone Angarano, Francesco Salvetti, Mauro Martini +1
Single-Image Super-Resolution can support robotic tasks in environments where a reliable visual stream is required to monitor the mission, handle teleoperation or study relevant vi…
Back-to-Bones: Rediscovering the Role of Backbones in Domain Generalization
Simone Angarano, Mauro Martini, Francesco Salvetti +2
Domain Generalization (DG) studies the capability of a deep learning model to generalize to out-of-training distributions. In the last decade, literature has been massively filled…
Position-Agnostic Autonomous Navigation in Vineyards with Deep Reinforcement Learning
Mauro Martini, Simone Cerrato, Francesco Salvetti +2
Precision agriculture is rapidly attracting research to efficiently introduce automation and robotics solutions to support agricultural activities. Robotic navigation in vineyards…
Waypoint Generation in Row-based Crops with Deep Learning and Contrastive Clustering
Francesco Salvetti, Simone Angarano, Mauro Martini +2
The development of precision agriculture has gradually introduced automation in the agricultural process to support and rationalize all the activities related to field management.…
Marvin: an Innovative Omni-Directional Robotic Assistant for Domestic Environments
Andrea Eirale, Mauro Martini, Luigi Tagliavini +3
Population ageing and pandemics recently demonstrate to cause isolation of elderly people in their houses, generating the need for a reliable assistive figure. Robotic assistants a…
A Deep Learning Driven Algorithmic Pipeline for Autonomous Navigation in Row-Based Crops
Simone Cerrato, Vittorio Mazzia, Francesco Salvetti +4
Expensive sensors and inefficient algorithmic pipelines significantly affect the overall cost of autonomous machines. However, affordable robotic solutions are essential to practic…
Deep Semantic Segmentation at the Edge for Autonomous Navigation in Vineyard Rows
Diego Aghi, Simone Cerrato, Vittorio Mazzia +1
Precision agriculture is a fast-growing field that aims at introducing affordable and effective automation into agricultural processes. Nowadays, algorithmic solutions for navigati…
Action Transformer: A Self-Attention Model for Short-Time Pose-Based Human Action Recognition
Vittorio Mazzia, Simone Angarano, Francesco Salvetti +2
Deep neural networks based purely on attention have been successful across several domains, relying on minimal architectural priors from the designer. In Human Action Recognition (…
Domain-Adversarial Training of Self-Attention Based Networks for Land Cover Classification using Multi-temporal Sentinel-2 Satellite Imagery
Mauro Martini, Vittorio Mazzia, Aleem Khaliq +1
The increasing availability of large-scale remote sensing labeled data has prompted researchers to develop increasingly precise and accurate data-driven models for land cover and c…
Efficient-CapsNet: Capsule Network with Self-Attention Routing
Vittorio Mazzia, Francesco Salvetti, Marcello Chiaberge
Deep convolutional neural networks, assisted by architectural design strategies, make extensive use of data augmentation techniques and layers with a high number of feature maps to…
Indoor Point-to-Point Navigation with Deep Reinforcement Learning and Ultra-wideband
Enrico Sutera, Vittorio Mazzia, Francesco Salvetti +2
Indoor autonomous navigation requires a precise and accurate localization system able to guide robots through cluttered, unstructured and dynamic environments. Ultra-wideband (UWB)…
Robust Ultra-wideband Range Error Mitigation with Deep Learning at the Edge
Simone Angarano, Vittorio Mazzia, Francesco Salvetti +2
Ultra-wideband (UWB) is the state-of-the-art and most popular technology for wireless localization. Nevertheless, precise ranging and localization in non-line-of-sight (NLoS) condi…