6 papers
Real-time Whole-Body Motion Planning for Mobile Manipulators Carrying Arbitrarily Shaped Payloads via Kinematically-Coupled SVSDF
Yisheng Li, Longji Yin, Tingrui Zhang +6
Mobile manipulators are increasingly tasked with transporting large, non-convex payloads through cluttered environments, yet existing planners either oversimplify the payload geome…
D-BDM: A Direct and Efficient Boundary-Based Occupancy Grid Mapping Framework for LiDARs
Benxu Tang, Yixi Cai, Fanze Kong +2
Efficient and scalable 3D occupancy mapping is essential for autonomous robot applications in unknown environments. However, traditional occupancy grid representations suffer from…
Memory-Efficient Boundary Map for Large-Scale Occupancy Grid Mapping
Benxu Tang, Yunfan Ren, Yixi Cai +6
Determining the occupancy status of locations in the environment is a fundamental task for safety-critical robotic applications. Traditional occupancy grid mapping methods subdivid…
Efficient Swept Volume-Based Trajectory Generation for Arbitrary-Shaped Ground Robot Navigation
Yisheng Li, Longji Yin, Yixi Cai +6
Navigating an arbitrary-shaped ground robot safely in cluttered environments remains a challenging problem. The existing trajectory planners that account for the robot's physical g…
Visibility-Aware Cooperative Tracking with Decentralized LiDAR-Based Aerial Swarms
Longji Yin, Yunfan Ren, Fangcheng Zhu +6
Autonomous aerial tracking with drones offers vast potential for surveillance, cinematography, and industrial inspection applications. While single-drone tracking systems have been…
A Survey on LiDAR-based Autonomous Aerial Vehicles
Yunfan Ren, Yixi Cai, Haotian Li +6
This survey offers a comprehensive overview of recent advancements in LiDAR-based autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), covering their design, perception, planning, and contr…