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Decentralized Guidance and Control for Rendezvous and Docking with a Tumbling Target using Multiple Servicers
Jonathan Taylor Jönsson, Sathyanarayanan Seshasayanan, Sumeet Gajanan Satpute +1
The growing trend of miniaturization in space, combined with an exponential increase in orbital debris, motivates a new operational paradigm, that is the deployment of multiple sma…
Reactive Robot-Centric Safety for Autonomous Navigation in Constrained and Dynamic Environments
Viswa Narayanan Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh K. Viswanathan, Akshit Saradagi +2
In this work, we address the problem of ensuring real-time safety in autonomous robot navigation, in spatially constrained dynamic environments, by utilizing only onboard sensors.…
An Adaptive Inspection Planning Approach Towards Routine Monitoring in Uncertain Environments
Vignesh Kottayam Viswanathan, Yifan Bai, Scott Fredriksson +3
In this work, we present a hierarchical framework designed to support robotic inspection under environment uncertainty. By leveraging a known environment model, existing methods pl…
Cloud-Assisted Remote Control for Aerial Robots: From Theory to Proof-of-Concept Implementation
Achilleas Santi Seisa, Viswa Narayanan Sankaranarayanan, Gerasimos Damigos +2
Cloud robotics has emerged as a promising technology for robotics applications due to its advantages of offloading computationally intensive tasks, facilitating data sharing, and e…
SPADE: Towards Scalable Path Planning Architecture on Actionable Multi-Domain 3D Scene Graphs
Vignesh Kottayam Viswanathan, Akash Patel, Mario Alberto Valdes Saucedo +3
In this work, we introduce SPADE, a path planning framework designed for autonomous navigation in dynamic environments using 3D scene graphs. SPADE combines hierarchical path plann…
Collision-free landing of multiple UAVs on moving ground vehicles using time-varying control barrier functions
Viswa Narayanan Sankaranarayanan, Akshit Saradagi, Sumeet Satpute +1
In this article, we present a centralized approach for the control of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for landing on moving unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) using control b…
An Actionable Hierarchical Scene Representation Enhancing Autonomous Inspection Missions in Unknown Environments
Vignesh Kottayam Viswanathan, Mario Alberto Valdes Saucedo, Sumeet Gajanan Satpute +2
In this article, we present the Layered Semantic Graphs (LSG), a novel actionable hierarchical scene graph, fully integrated with a multi-modal mission planner, the FLIE: A First-L…
xFLIE: Leveraging Actionable Hierarchical Scene Representations for Autonomous Semantic-Aware Inspection Missions
Vignesh Kottayam Viswanathan, Mario A. V. Saucedo, Sumeet Gajanan Satpute +2
We present a novel architecture aimed towards incremental construction and exploitation of a hierarchical 3D scene graph representation during semantic-aware inspection missions. I…
Barriers on the EDGE: A scalable CBF architecture over EDGE for safe aerial-ground multi-agent coordination
Viswa Narayanan Sankaranarayanan, Achilleas Santi Seisa, Akshit Saradagi +2
In this article, we propose a control architecture for the safe, coordinated operation of a multi-agent system with aerial (UAVs) and ground (UGVs) robots in a confined task space.…
Assisted Physical Interaction: Autonomous Aerial Robots with Neural Network Detection, Navigation, and Safety Layers
Andrea Berra, Viswa Narayanan Sankaranarayanan, Achilleas Santi Seisa +10
The paper introduces a novel framework for safe and autonomous aerial physical interaction in industrial settings. It comprises two main components: a neural network-based target d…
A CBF-Adaptive Control Architecture for Visual Navigation for UAV in the Presence of Uncertainties
Viswa Narayanan Sankaranarayanan, Akshit Saradagi, Sumeet Satpute +1
In this article, we propose a control solution for the safe transfer of a quadrotor UAV between two surface robots positioning itself only using the visual features on the surface…
Adaptive Control of Euler-Lagrange Systems under Time-varying State Constraints without a Priori Bounded Uncertainty
Viswa Narayanan Sankaranarayanan, Sumeet Gajanan Satpute, Spandan Roy +1
In this article, a novel adaptive controller is designed for Euler-Lagrangian systems under predefined time-varying state constraints. The proposed controller could achieve this ob…
A Resilient Framework for 5G-Edge-Connected UAVs based on Switching Edge-MPC and Onboard-PID Control
Gerasimos Damigos, Achilleas Santi Seisa, Sumeet Gajanan Satpute +2
In recent years, the need for resources for handling processes with high computational complexity for mobile robots is becoming increasingly urgent. More specifically, robots need…
Towards a Reduced Dependency Framework for Autonomous Unified Inspect-Explore Missions
Vignesh Kottayam Viswanathan, Sumeet Gajanan Satpute, Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi +1
The task of establishing and maintaining situational awareness in an unknown environment is a critical step to fulfil in a mission related to the field of rescue robotics. Predomin…
Vision Based Docking of Multiple Satellites with an Uncooperative Target
Fragiskos Fourlas, Vignesh Kottayam Viswanathan, Sumeet Satpute +1
With the ever growing number of space debris in orbit, the need to prevent further space population is becoming more and more apparent. Refueling, servicing, inspection and deorbit…
A Kubernetes-Based Edge Architecture for Controlling the Trajectory of a Resource-Constrained Aerial Robot by Enabling Model Predictive Control
Achilleas Santi Seisa, Sumeet Gajanan Satpute, George Nikolakopoulos
In recent years, cloud and edge architectures have gained tremendous focus for offloading computationally heavy applications. From machine learning and Internet of Thing (IOT) to i…
PACED-5G: Predictive Autonomous Control using Edge for Drones over 5G
Viswa Narayanan Sankaranarayanan, Gerasimos Damigos, Achilleas Santi Seisa +3
With the advent of technologies such as Edge computing, the horizons of remote computational applications have broadened multidimensionally. Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV…
Edge Computing Architectures for Enabling the Realisation of the Next Generation Robotic Systems
Achilleas Santi Seisa, Gerasimos Damigos, Sumeet Gajanan Satpute +2
Edge Computing is a promising technology to provide new capabilities in technological fields that require instantaneous data processing. Researchers in areas such as machine and de…
An Edge Architecture Oriented Model Predictive Control Scheme for an Autonomous UAV Mission
Achilleas Santi Seisa, Sumeet Gajanan Satpute, Björn Lindqvist +1
In this article the implementation of a controller and specifically of a Model Predictive Controller (MPC) on an Edge Computing device, for controlling the trajectory of an Unmanne…
Safe Autonomous Docking Maneuvers for a Floating Platform based on Input Sharing Control Barrier Functions
Akshit Saradagi, Avijit Banerjee, Sumeet Satpute +1
In this article, we present a control strategy for the problem of safe autonomous docking for a planar floating platform (Slider) that emulates the movement of a satellite. Employi…
Slider: On the Design and Modeling of a 2D Floating Satellite Platform
Avijit Banerjee, Jakub Haluska, Sumeet G. Satpute +2
In this article, a floating robotic emulation platform for a virtual demonstration of satellite motion in space is presented. The robotic platform design is characterized by its fr…