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most citedBenchmarking Vision-Based Object Tracking for USVs in Complex Maritime Environments

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17 papers

cs.RO2026

ProAct-VLM: Pre-Failure Vision-Language Task Replanning with Continuous Perception Feedback

Ahmed Nader Ahmed, Omar Moured, Mughni Irfan Mohammed Abdul +2

Long-horizon robotic tasks are vulnerable to unexpected environmental changes that can render planned actions ineffective or unsafe. To address this, robots must detect such change…

cs.RO2026

RIT*: Riemannian Informed Trees for Cost-Adaptive Optimal Motion Planning

Muhayy Ud Din, Ahmed Nadar, Jan Rosell +1

We present Riemannian Informed Trees (RIT*), a planning framework that replaces Euclidean primitives in batch-informed search with their Riemannian counterparts. RIT* constructs a…

cs.RO2026

SAGP: Semantic Affordance-Guided Grasp Planning via Coarse-Zone VLM Reasoning

Muhayy Ud Din, Irfan Hussain

Geometry-based grasp planners ensure physically valid grasps but ignore functional semantics, often generating grasps that are antipodal and collision-free yet practically inapprop…

cs.CV2026

MUOT_3M: A 3 Million Frame Multimodal Underwater Benchmark and the MUTrack Tracking Method

Ahsan Baidar Bakht, Mohamad Alansari, Muhayy Ud Din +5

Underwater Object Tracking (UOT) is crucial for efficient marine robotics, large scale ecological monitoring, and ocean exploration; however, progress has been hindered by the scar…

cs.RO2026

LLM-VLM Fusion Framework for Autonomous Maritime Port Inspection using a Heterogeneous UAV-USV System

Muhayy Ud Din, Waseem Akram, Ahsan B. Bakht +1

Maritime port inspection plays a critical role in ensuring safety, regulatory compliance, and operational efficiency in complex maritime environments. However, existing inspection…

cs.RO2025

Lang2Manip: A Tool for LLM-Based Symbolic-to-Geometric Planning for Manipulation

Muhayy Ud Din, Jan Rosell, Waseem Akram +1

Simulation is essential for developing robotic manipulation systems, particularly for task and motion planning (TAMP), where symbolic reasoning interfaces with geometric, kinematic…

cs.RO2025

AquaChat: An LLM-Guided ROV Framework for Adaptive Inspection of Aquaculture Net Pens

Waseem Akram, Muhayy Ud Din, Abdelhaleem Saad +1

Inspection of aquaculture net pens is essential for maintaining the structural integrity, biosecurity, and operational efficiency of fish farming systems. Traditional inspection ap…

cs.RO2025★ 1 cited

A Review of Generative AI in Aquaculture: Foundations, Applications, and Future Directions for Smart and Sustainable Farming

Waseem Akram, Muhayy Ud Din, Lyes Saad Soud +1

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) has rapidly emerged as a transformative force in aquaculture, enabling intelligent synthesis of multimodal data, including text, images, au…

cs.RO2025★ 1 cited

Vision Language Action Models in Robotic Manipulation: A Systematic Review

Muhayy Ud Din, Waseem Akram, Lyes Saad Saoud +2

Vision Language Action (VLA) models represent a transformative shift in robotics, with the aim of unifying visual perception, natural language understanding, and embodied control w…

cs.CV2025

MVTD: A Benchmark Dataset for Maritime Visual Object Tracking

Ahsan Baidar Bakht, Muhayy Ud Din, Sajid Javed +1

Visual Object Tracking (VOT) is a fundamental task with widespread applications in autonomous navigation, surveillance, and maritime robotics. Despite significant advances in gener…

cs.RO2025

Maritime Mission Planning for Unmanned Surface Vessel using Large Language Model

Muhayy Ud Din, Waseem Akram, Ahsan B Bakht +2

Unmanned Surface Vessels (USVs) are essential for various maritime operations. USV mission planning approach offers autonomous solutions for monitoring, surveillance, and logistics…

cs.RO2025★ 1 cited

Drone Carrier: An Integrated Unmanned Surface Vehicle for Autonomous Inspection and Intervention in GNSS-Denied Maritime Environment

Yihao Dong, Muhayyu Ud Din, Francesco Lagala +5

This paper introduces an innovative drone carrier concept that is applied in maritime port security or offshore rescue. This system works with a heterogeneous system consisting of…

cs.CV2024★ 10 cited

Benchmarking Vision-Based Object Tracking for USVs in Complex Maritime Environments

Muhayy Ud Din, Ahsan B. Bakht, Waseem Akram +3

Vision-based target tracking is crucial for unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) to perform tasks such as inspection, monitoring, and surveillance. However, real-time tracking in compl…

cs.RO2024★ 2 cited

LLM-guided Task and Motion Planning using Knowledge-based Reasoning

Muhayy Ud Din, Jan Rosell, Waseem Akram +3

Performing complex manipulation tasks in dynamic environments requires efficient Task and Motion Planning (TAMP) approaches that combine high-level symbolic plans with low-level mo…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

An Aerial Transport System in Marine GNSS-Denied Environment

Jianjun Sun, Zhenwei Niu, Yihao Dong +6

This paper presents an autonomous aerial system specifically engineered for operation in challenging marine GNSS-denied environments, aimed at transporting small cargo from a targe…

cs.RO2024

Long-Range Vision-Based UAV-assisted Localization for Unmanned Surface Vehicles

Waseem Akram, Siyuan Yang, Hailiang Kuang +7

The global positioning system (GPS) has become an indispensable navigation method for field operations with unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) in marine environments. However, GPS ma…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

Object Manipulation in Marine Environments using Reinforcement Learning

Ahmed Nader, Muhayy Ud Din, Mughni Irfan +1

Performing intervention tasks in the maritime domain is crucial for safety and operational efficiency. The unpredictable and dynamic marine environment makes the intervention tasks…