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TRaIL-Odom: Tightly Coupled Continuous Time Radar-IMU-LiDAR Odometry with Adaptive Doppler Weighting
Chiyun Noh, Turcan Tuna, William Talbot +3
Existing radar-LiDAR fusion methods rely on fixed residual weights, even though the informativeness of radar Doppler and LiDAR geometry is scan- and direction-dependent, leading to…
An Efficient Beam Search Algorithm for Active Perception in Mobile Robotics
Kaixian Qu, Han Wang, Victor Klemm +2
Active perception is a fundamental problem in autonomous robotics in which the robot must decide where to move and what to sense in order to obtain the most informative observation…
Path-conditioned Reinforcement Learning-based Local Planning for Long-Range Navigation
Mateo Haro, Julia Richter, Fan Yang +2
Long-range navigation is commonly addressed through hierarchical pipelines in which a global planner generates a path, decomposed into waypoints, and followed sequentially by a loc…
CaRLi-V: Camera-RADAR-LiDAR Point-Wise 3D Velocity Estimation
Landson Guo, Andres M. Diaz Aguilar, William Talbot +3
Accurate point-wise velocity estimation in 3D is crucial for robot interaction with non-rigid dynamic agents, enabling robust performance in path planning, collision avoidance, and…
Large Scale Robotic Material Handling: Learning, Planning, and Control
Filippo A. Spinelli, Yifan Zhai, Fang Nan +6
Bulk material handling involves the efficient and precise moving of large quantities of materials, a core operation in many industries, including cargo ship unloading, waste sortin…
CompSLAM: Complementary Hierarchical Multi-Modal Localization and Mapping for Robot Autonomy in Underground Environments
Shehryar Khattak, Timon Homberger, Lukas Bernreiter +5
Robot autonomy in unknown, GPS-denied, and complex underground environments requires real-time, robust, and accurate onboard pose estimation and mapping for reliable operations. Th…
Learned Perceptive Forward Dynamics Model for Safe and Platform-aware Robotic Navigation
Pascal Roth, Jonas Frey, Cesar Cadena +1
Ensuring safe navigation in complex environments requires accurate real-time traversability assessment and understanding of environmental interactions relative to the robot`s capab…
Boxi: Design Decisions in the Context of Algorithmic Performance for Robotics
Jonas Frey, Turcan Tuna, Lanke Frank Tarimo Fu +8
Achieving robust autonomy in mobile robots operating in complex and unstructured environments requires a multimodal sensor suite capable of capturing diverse and complementary info…
Holistic Fusion: Task- and Setup-Agnostic Robot Localization and State Estimation with Factor Graphs
Julian Nubert, Turcan Tuna, Jonas Frey +4
Seamless operation of mobile robots in challenging environments requires low-latency local motion estimation and accurate global localization. While most sensor-fusion approaches a…
ForestLPR: LiDAR Place Recognition in Forests Attentioning Multiple BEV Density Images
Yanqing Shen, Turcan Tuna, Marco Hutter +2
Place recognition is essential to maintain global consistency in large-scale localization systems. While research in urban environments has progressed significantly using LiDARs or…
Continuous-Time State Estimation Methods in Robotics: A Survey
William Talbot, Julian Nubert, Turcan Tuna +5
Accurate, efficient, and robust state estimation is more important than ever in robotics as the variety of platforms and complexity of tasks continue to grow. Historically, discret…
IPPON: Common Sense Guided Informative Path Planning for Object Goal Navigation
Kaixian Qu, Jie Tan, Tingnan Zhang +3
Navigating efficiently to an object in an unexplored environment is a critical skill for general-purpose intelligent robots. Recent approaches to this object goal navigation proble…
Reinforcement Learning Control for Autonomous Hydraulic Material Handling Machines with Underactuated Tools
Filippo A. Spinelli, Pascal Egli, Julian Nubert +6
The precise and safe control of heavy material handling machines presents numerous challenges due to the hard-to-model hydraulically actuated joints and the need for collision-free…
ETHcavation: A Dataset and Pipeline for Panoptic Scene Understanding and Object Tracking in Dynamic Construction Environments
Lorenzo Terenzi, Julian Nubert, Pol Eyschen +4
Construction sites are challenging environments for autonomous systems due to their unstructured nature and the presence of dynamic actors, such as workers and machinery. This work…
MultiViPerFrOG: A Globally Optimized Multi-Viewpoint Perception Framework for Camera Motion and Tissue Deformation
Guido Caccianiga, Julian Nubert, Cesar Cadena +2
Reconstructing the 3D shape of a deformable environment from the information captured by a moving depth camera is highly relevant to surgery. The underlying challenge is the fact t…
Informed, Constrained, Aligned: A Field Analysis on Degeneracy-aware Point Cloud Registration in the Wild
Turcan Tuna, Julian Nubert, Patrick Pfreundschuh +3
The ICP registration algorithm has been a preferred method for LiDAR-based robot localization for nearly a decade. However, even in modern SLAM solutions, ICP can degrade and becom…
ROS-LLM: A ROS framework for embodied AI with task feedback and structured reasoning
Christopher E. Mower, Yuhui Wan, Hongzhan Yu +20
We present a framework for intuitive robot programming by non-experts, leveraging natural language prompts and contextual information from the Robot Operating System (ROS). Our sys…