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most citedScientific Exploration of Challenging Planetary Analog Environments with a Team of Legged Robots

116 citations · 153 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.RO2025

PegasusFlow: Parallel Rolling-Denoising Score Sampling for Robot Diffusion Planner Flow Matching

Lei Ye, Haibo Gao, Peng Xu +7

Diffusion models offer powerful generative capabilities for robot trajectory planning, yet their practical deployment on robots is hindered by a critical bottleneck: a reliance on…

cs.RO2025★ 3 cited

VLM-Empowered Multi-Mode System for Efficient and Safe Planetary Navigation

Sinuo Cheng, Ruyi Zhou, Wenhao Feng +4

The increasingly complex and diverse planetary exploration environment requires more adaptable and flexible rover navigation strategy. In this study, we propose a VLM-empowered mul…

cs.RO2025

Whole-Body Constrained Learning for Legged Locomotion via Hierarchical Optimization

Haoyu Wang, Ruyi Zhou, Liang Ding +5

Reinforcement learning (RL) has demonstrated impressive performance in legged locomotion over various challenging environments. However, due to the sim-to-real gap and lack of expl…

cs.RO2024

Identifying Terrain Physical Parameters from Vision -- Towards Physical-Parameter-Aware Locomotion and Navigation

Jiaqi Chen, Jonas Frey, Ruyi Zhou +3

Identifying the physical properties of the surrounding environment is essential for robotic locomotion and navigation to deal with non-geometric hazards, such as slippery and defor…

cs.RO2023★ 116 cited

Scientific Exploration of Challenging Planetary Analog Environments with a Team of Legged Robots

Philip Arm, Gabriel Waibel, Jan Preisig +8

The interest in exploring planetary bodies for scientific investigation and in-situ resource utilization is ever-rising. Yet, many sites of interest are inaccessible to state-of-th…

cs.RO2020★ 4 cited

Predicting Terrain Mechanical Properties in Sight for Planetary Rovers with Semantic Clues

Ruyi Zhou, Wenhao Feng, Huaiguang Yang +4

Non-geometric mobility hazards such as rover slippage and sinkage posing great challenges to costly planetary missions are closely related to the mechanical properties of terrain.…

cs.RO2020★ 30 cited

Fault Tolerant Free Gait and Footstep Planning for Hexapod Robot Based on Monte-Carlo Tree

Liang Ding, Peng Xu, Haibo Gao +4

Legged robots can pass through complex field environments by selecting gaits and discrete footholds carefully. Traditional methods plan gait and foothold separately and treat them…