11 papers
Safe Navigation in Unknown and Cluttered Environments via Direction-Aware Convex Free-Region Generation
Zhicheng Song, Yongjian Li, Kai Chen +3
Convex free regions provide a structured and optimization-friendly representation of collision-free space for robot navigation in unknown and cluttered environments. However, exist…
Traffic Sign Recognition in Autonomous Driving: Dataset, Benchmark, and Field Experiment
Guoyang Zhao, Weiqing Qi, Kai Zhang +7
Traffic Sign Recognition (TSR) is a core perception capability for autonomous driving, where robustness to cross-region variation, long-tailed categories, and semantic ambiguity is…
Decision-Driven Semantic Object Exploration for Legged Robots via Confidence-Calibrated Perception and Topological Subgoal Selection
Guoyang Zhao, Yudong Li, Weiqing Qi +5
Conventional navigation pipelines for legged robots remain largely geometry-centric, relying on dense SLAM representations that are fragile under rapid motion and offer limited sup…
ALORE: Autonomous Large-Object Rearrangement with a Legged Manipulator
Zhihai Bi, Yushan Zhang, Kai Chen +3
Endowing robots with the ability to rearrange various large and heavy objects, such as furniture, can substantially alleviate human workload. However, this task is extremely challe…
Fast and Safe Trajectory Optimization for Mobile Manipulators With Neural Configuration Space Distance Field
Yulin Li, Zhiyuan Song, Yiming Li +8
Mobile manipulators promise agile, long-horizon behavior by coordinating base and arm motion, yet whole-body trajectory optimization in cluttered, confined spaces remains difficult…
Embracing Bulky Objects with Humanoid Robots: Whole-Body Manipulation with Reinforcement Learning
Chunxin Zheng, Kai Chen, Zhihai Bi +5
Whole-body manipulation (WBM) for humanoid robots presents a promising approach for executing embracing tasks involving bulky objects, where traditional grasping relying on end-eff…