4 papers
Safe Payload Transfer with Ship-Mounted Cranes: A Robust Model Predictive Control Approach
Ersin Das, William A. Welch, Patrick Spieler +14
Ensuring safe real-time control of ship-mounted cranes in unstructured transportation environments requires handling multiple safety constraints while maintaining effective payload…
Risk-Guided Diffusion: Toward Deploying Robot Foundation Models in Space, Where Failure Is Not An Option
Rohan Thakker, Adarsh Patnaik, Vince Kurtz +10
Safe, reliable navigation in extreme, unfamiliar terrain is required for future robotic space exploration missions. Recent generative-AI methods learn semantically aware navigation…
Risk-aware Integrated Task and Motion Planning for Versatile Snake Robots under Localization Failures
Ashkan Jasour, Guglielmo Daddi, Masafumi Endo +7
Snake robots enable mobility through extreme terrains and confined environments in terrestrial and space applications. However, robust perception and localization for snake robots…
Enabling Novel Mission Operations and Interactions with ROSA: The Robot Operating System Agent
Rob Royce, Marcel Kaufmann, Jonathan Becktor +6
The advancement of robotic systems has revolutionized numerous industries, yet their operation often demands specialized technical knowledge, limiting accessibility for non-expert…