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LiPO: LiDAR Inertial Odometry for ICP Comparison
Darwin Mick, Taylor Pool, Madankumar Sathenahally Nagaraju +3
We introduce a LiDAR inertial odometry (LIO) framework, called LiPO, that enables direct comparisons of different iterative closest point (ICP) point cloud registration methods. Th…
Distributed Optimal Control Framework for High-Speed Convoys: Theory and Hardware Results
Namya Bagree, Charles Noren, Damanpreet Singh +2
Practical deployments of coordinated fleets of mobile robots in different environments have revealed the benefits of maintaining small distances between robots, especially as they…
Fast Staircase Detection and Estimation using 3D Point Clouds with Multi-detection Merging for Heterogeneous Robots
Prasanna Sriganesh, Namya Bagree, Bhaskar Vundurthy +1
Robotic systems need advanced mobility capabilities to operate in complex, three-dimensional environments designed for human use, e.g., multi-level buildings. Incorporating some le…
RGB-X Classification for Electronics Sorting
FNU Abhimanyu, Tejas Zodage, Umesh Thillaivasan +8
Effectively disassembling and recovering materials from waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) is a critical step in moving global supply chains from carbon-intensive, mi…
The Geometric Structure of Externally Actuated Planar Locomoting Systems in Ambient Media
Blake Buchanan, Tony Dear, Scott Kelly +2
Robots often interact with the world via attached parts such as wheels, joints, or appendages. In many systems, these interactions, and the manner in which they lead to locomotion,…
Learning Modular Robot Control Policies
Julian Whitman, Matthew Travers, Howie Choset
Modular robots can be rearranged into a new design, perhaps each day, to handle a wide variety of tasks by forming a customized robot for each new task. However, reconfiguring just…
Optimal Control for Structurally Sparse Systems using Graphical Inference
Roshan Pradhan, Shuo Yang, Frank Dellaert +2
Dynamical systems with a distributed yet interconnected structure, like multi-rigid-body robots or large-scale multi-agent systems, introduce valuable sparsity into the system dyna…
Stability and Control of Chaplygin Beanies Coupled to a Platform through Nonholonomic Constraints
Blake Buchanan, Matthew Travers, Howie Choset +1
Many multi-agent systems in nature are comprised of agents that interact with, and respond to, the dynamics of their environment. In this paper, we approach the study of such agent…
Predicting Nanorobot Shapes via Generative Models
Emma Benjaminson, Rebecca E. Taylor, Matthew Travers
The field of DNA nanotechnology has made it possible to assemble, with high yields, different structures that have actionable properties. For example, researchers have created comp…
Reconstruction of Backbone Curves for Snake Robots
Tianyu Wang, Bo Lin, Baxi Chong +5
Snake robots composed of alternating single-axis pitch and yaw joints have many internal degrees of freedom, which make them capable of versatile three-dimensional locomotion. In m…
Directional Compliance in Obstacle-Aided Navigation for Snake Robots
Tianyu Wang, Julian Whitman, Matthew Travers +1
Snake robots have the potential to maneuver through tightly packed and complex environments. One challenge in enabling them to do so is the complexity in determining how to coordin…
State Estimation for Legged Robots Using Contact-Centric Leg Odometry
Shuo Yang, Hans Kumar, Zhaoyuan Gu +3
Our goal is to send legged robots into challenging, unstructured terrains that wheeled systems cannot traverse. Moreover, precise estimation of the robot's position and orientation…
Design and Implementation of a Three-Link Brachiation Robot with Optimal Control Based Trajectory Tracking Controller
Shuo Yang, Zhaoyuan Gu, Ruohai Ge +3
This paper reports the design and implementation of a three-link brachiation robot. The robot is able to travel along horizontal monkey bars using continuous arm swings. We build a…
Trajectory Generation for Millimeter Scale Ferromagnetic Swimmers: Theory and Experiments
Jaskaran Grover, Daniel Vedova, Nalini Jain +3
Microrobots have the potential to impact many areas such as microsurgery, micromanipulation and minimally invasive sensing. Due to their small size, microrobots swim in a regime th…
Learning to Sequence Robot Behaviors for Visual Navigation
Hadi Salman, Puneet Singhal, Tanmay Shankar +6
Recent literature in the robotics community has focused on learning robot behaviors that abstract out lower-level details of robot control. To fully leverage the efficacy of such b…
A review on locomotion robophysics: the study of movement at the intersection of robotics, soft matter and dynamical systems
Jeffrey Aguilar, Tingnan Zhang, Feifei Qian +11
In this review we argue for the creation of a physics of moving systems -- a locomotion "robophysics" -- which we define as the pursuit of the discovery of principles of self gener…
Sidewinding with minimal slip: Snake and robot ascent of sandy slopes
Hamidreza Marvi, Chaohui Gong, Nick Gravish +7
Limbless organisms such as snakes can navigate nearly all terrain. In particular, desert-dwelling sidewinder rattlesnakes (Crotalus cerastes) operate effectively on inclined granul…