7 papers
D-VLC: Decentralized Vision-Language Collaboration for Heterogeneous Embodied Multi-Robot Systems in Unknown Environments
Yuan Zhou, Ruitong Lin, Shen Wang +6
Multi-robot systems, particularly heterogeneous robot swarms, can improve the efficiency of complex task execution through parallel collaboration and complementary capabilities. Ho…
FLIP: Real-Time and Resilient Formation Planning for Large-Scale DIstributed Swarms via Point Cloud Registration
Yuan Zhou, Guangtong Xu, Zhenyu Hou +2
Traditional large-scale formation planning either oversimplify the formation representation which leads to poor performance, or they employ complete collaborative relationships, wh…
USS-Nav: Unified Spatio-Semantic Scene Graph for Lightweight UAV Zero-Shot Object Navigation
Weiqi Gai, Yuman Gao, Yuan Zhou +6
Zero-Shot Object Navigation in unknown environments poses significant challenges for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) due to the conflict between high-level semantic reasoning requi…
Number Adaptive Formation Flight Planning via Affine Deformable Guidance in Narrow Environments
Yuan Zhou, Jialiang Hou, Guangtong Xu +1
Formation maintenance with varying number of drones in narrow environments hinders the convergence of planning to the desired configurations. To address this challenge, this paper…
Tracailer: An Efficient Trajectory Planner for Tractor-Trailer Robots in Unstructured Environments
Long Xu, Kaixin Chai, Boyuan An +11
The tractor-trailer robot consists of a drivable tractor and one or more non-drivable trailers connected via hitches. Compared to typical car-like robots, the addition of trailers…
Shape-Adaptive Planning and Control for a Deformable Quadrotor
Yuze Wu, Zhichao Han, Xuankang Wu +4
Drones have become essential in various applications, but conventional quadrotors face limitations in confined spaces and complex tasks. Deformable drones, which can adapt their sh…