4 papers
A Riemannian Take on Distance Fields and Geodesic Flows in Robotics
Yiming Li, Jiacheng Qiu, Sylvain Calinon
Distance functions are crucial in robotics for representing spatial relationships between a robot and its environment. They provide an implicit, continuous, and differentiable repr…
Ark: An Open-source Python-based Framework for Robot Learning
Magnus Dierking, Christopher E. Mower, Sarthak Das +10
Robotics has made remarkable hardware strides-from DARPA's Urban and Robotics Challenges to the first humanoid-robot kickboxing tournament-yet commercial autonomy still lags behind…
Energy Optimization of Multi-task DNN Inference in MEC-assisted XR Devices: A Lyapunov-Guided Reinforcement Learning Approach
Yanzan Sun, Jiacheng Qiu, Guangjin Pan +4
Extended reality (XR), blending virtual and real worlds, is a key application of future networks. While AI advancements enhance XR capabilities, they also impose significant comput…
Labits: Layered Bidirectional Time Surfaces Representation for Event Camera-based Continuous Dense Trajectory Estimation
Zhongyang Zhang, Jiacheng Qiu, Shuyang Cui +2
Event cameras provide a compelling alternative to traditional frame-based sensors, capturing dynamic scenes with high temporal resolution and low latency. Moving objects trigger ev…