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Explore From Sketch: Accelerating UAV Exploration in Large-scale Environments with Prior Maps
Tiancheng Lai, Yuman Gao, Xiangyu Li +8
Autonomous exploration with UAVs in large-scale, topologically complex environments often suffers from low efficiency due to suboptimal scheduling and detours. Prior maps (e.g., co…
USS-Nav: Unified Spatio-Semantic Scene Graph for Lightweight UAV Zero-Shot Object Navigation
Weiqi Gai, Yuman Gao, Yuan Zhou +6
Zero-Shot Object Navigation in unknown environments poses significant challenges for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) due to the conflict between high-level semantic reasoning requi…
Ego-Vision World Model for Humanoid Contact Planning
Hang Liu, Yuman Gao, Sangli Teng +5
Enabling humanoid robots to exploit physical contact, rather than simply avoid collisions, is crucial for autonomy in unstructured environments. Traditional optimization-based plan…
HITTER: A HumanoId Table TEnnis Robot via Hierarchical Planning and Learning
Zhi Su, Bike Zhang, Nima Rahmanian +5
Humanoid robots have recently achieved impressive progress in locomotion and whole-body control, yet they remain constrained in tasks that demand rapid interaction with dynamic env…
Autonomous Exploration with Terrestrial-Aerial Bimodal Vehicles
Yuman Gao, Ruibin Zhang, Tiancheng Lai +3
Terrestrial-aerial bimodal vehicles, which integrate the high mobility of aerial robots with the long endurance of ground robots, offer significant potential for autonomous explora…
Toward Real-World Cooperative and Competitive Soccer with Quadrupedal Robot Teams
Zhi Su, Yuman Gao, Emily Lukas +8
Achieving coordinated teamwork among legged robots requires both fine-grained locomotion control and long-horizon strategic decision-making. Robot soccer offers a compelling testbe…
LangWBC: Language-directed Humanoid Whole-Body Control via End-to-end Learning
Yiyang Shao, Xiaoyu Huang, Bike Zhang +6
General-purpose humanoid robots are expected to interact intuitively with humans, enabling seamless integration into daily life. Natural language provides the most accessible mediu…
Multi-Robot System for Cooperative Exploration in Unknown Environments: A Survey
Chuqi Wang, Chao Yu, Xin Xu +11
With the real need of field exploration in large-scale and extreme outdoor environments, cooperative exploration tasks have garnered increasing attention. This paper presents a com…
Microsaccade-inspired Event Camera for Robotics
Botao He, Ze Wang, Yuan Zhou +11
Neuromorphic vision sensors or event cameras have made the visual perception of extremely low reaction time possible, opening new avenues for high-dynamic robotics applications. Th…
GS-Planner: A Gaussian-Splatting-based Planning Framework for Active High-Fidelity Reconstruction
Rui Jin, Yuman Gao, Yingjian Wang +2
Active reconstruction technique enables robots to autonomously collect scene data for full coverage, relieving users from tedious and time-consuming data capturing process. However…
Fast Iterative Region Inflation for Computing Large 2-D/3-D Convex Regions of Obstacle-Free Space
Qianhao Wang, Zhepei Wang, Mingyang Wang +7
Convex polytopes have compact representations and exhibit convexity, which makes them suitable for abstracting obstacle-free spaces from various environments. Existing generation m…
Model-Based Planning and Control for Terrestrial-Aerial Bimodal Vehicles with Passive Wheels
Ruibin Zhang, Junxiao Lin, Yuze Wu +5
Terrestrial and aerial bimodal vehicles have gained widespread attention due to their cross-domain maneuverability. Nevertheless, their bimodal dynamics significantly increase the…
Adaptive Tracking and Perching for Quadrotor in Dynamic Scenarios
Yuman Gao, Jialin Ji, Qianhao Wang +7
Perching on the moving platforms is a promising solution to enhance the endurance and operational range of quadrotors, which could benefit the efficiency of a variety of air-ground…
Meeting-Merging-Mission: A Multi-robot Coordinate Framework for Large-Scale Communication-Limited Exploration
Yuman Gao, Yingjian Wang, Xingguang Zhong +6
This letter presents a complete framework Meeting-Merging-Mission for multi-robot exploration under communication restriction. Considering communication is limited in both bandwidt…
Visibility-aware Trajectory Optimization with Application to Aerial Tracking
Qianhao Wang, Yuman Gao, Jialin Ji +2
The visibility of targets determines performance and even success rate of various applications, such as active slam, exploration, and target tracking. Therefore, it is crucial to t…
Learning-based 3D Occupancy Prediction for Autonomous Navigation in Occluded Environments
Lizi Wang, Hongkai Ye, Qianhao Wang +3
In autonomous navigation of mobile robots, sensors suffer from massive occlusion in cluttered environments, leaving significant amount of space unknown during planning. In practice…