T-RO Papers Presented at Conferences

 

Mean Field Behaviour of Collaborative Multi-Agent Foragers
D. Jarne Ornia; P. J. Zufiria; M. Mazo Jr.   [Xplore Link]

 

DiffCo: Auto-Differentiable Proxy Collision Detection with Multi-class Labels for Safety-Aware Trajectory Optimization
Y. Zhi; N. Das; M. C. Yip.  [Xplore Link]

 

RBO Hand 3 - A Platform for Soft Dexterous Manipulation
S. Puhlmann; J. Harris; O. Brock.  [Xplore Link]

 

Robotic Manipulation of Sperm as a Deformable Linear Object
C. Dai; G. Shan; H. Liu; C. Ru; Y. Sun.  [Xplore Link]

 

Risk-Aware Submodular Optimization for Multi-Robot Coordination
L. Zhou; P. Tokekar.  [Xplore Link]

 

A Decentralized Multi-Robot Spatio-Temporal Multi-Task Assignment Approach for Perimeter Defense
S. Velhal; S. Sundaram; S. Narasimman.  [Xplore Link]

 

Geometrically Constrained Trajectory Optimization for Multicopters
Z. Wang; X. Zhou; C. Xu; F. Gao.  [Xplore Link]

 

Fast and Robust Inverse Kinematics of Serial Robots using Halley's Method
S. Lloyd; R. Irani; M. Ahmadi.  [Xplore Link]

 

Neuromechanical Model-based Adaptive Control of Bi-lateral Ankle Exoskeletons: Biological Joint Torque and Electromyogram Reduction Across Walking Conditions
G. Durandau; W. F. Rampeltshammer; H. Van der Kooij; M. Sartori.  [Xplore Link]

 

So-EAGlove: VR Haptic Glove Rendering Softness Sensation with Force-tunable Electrostatic Adhesive Brakes
Q. Xiong; X. Liang; D. Wei; H. Wang; T. WANG; R. Zhu; J. Mao; H. Wang.  [Xplore Link]

 

Design, Development, and Control of a Hand/Wrist Exoskeleton for Rehabilitation and Training
M. Dragusanu; M. Z. Iqbal; T. Lisini Baldi; D. Prattichizzo; M. Malvezzi.  [Xplore Link]

 

Model Predictive Contouring Control for Time-Optimal Quadrotor Flight
A. Romero; S. Sun; P. Foehn; D. Scaramuzza   [Xplore Link]

 

Learning to Play Table Tennis From Scratch using Muscular Robots
D. Büchler; S. Guist; R. Calandra; V. Berenz; B. Schölkopf; J. Peters.  [Xplore Link]

 

A Comparative Study of Nonlinear MPC and Differential-Flatness-Based Control for Quadrotor Agile Flight
S. Sun; A. Romero; P. Foehn; E. Kaufmann; D. Scaramuzza.  [Xplore Link]

 

Autonomous Navigation in Unknown Environments with Sparse Bayesian Kernel-based Occupancy Mapping
T. Duong; M. C. Yip; N. Atanasov.  [Xplore Link]

 

Directional Sensor Planning for Occlusion Avoidance
J. Gemerek; B. Fu; Y. Chen; Z. Liu; M. Zheng; D. van Wijk; S. Ferrari.  [Xplore Link]

 

A Generalized Framework for Concentric Tube Robot Design Using Gradient-Based Optimization
J.-T. Lin; C. Girerd; J. Yan; J. T. Hwang; T. K. Morimoto   [Xplore Link]

 

Model-Based Policy Search Using Monte Carlo Gradient Estimation with Real Systems Application
D. Romeres; F. Amadio; A. Dalla Libera; R. Antonello; D. Nikovski; R. Carli   [Xplore Link]

 

An Energy based Control Architecture for Shared Autonomy
F. Benzi; F. Ferraguti; G. Riggio; C. Secchi   [Xplore Link]

 

Adaptive Constrained Kinematic Control using Partial or Complete Task-Space Measurements
M. Marques Marinho; B. V. Adorno  [Xplore Link]

 

Closed-Loop Motion Control of Robotic Swarms A Tether-Based Strategy
K. Eshaghi; A. Rogers; G. Nejat; B. Benhabib   [Xplore Link]

 

Bidirectional Sampling-Based Motion Planning Without Two-Point Boundary Value Solution
S. Nayak; M. W. Otte   [Xplore Link]

 

Energy Aware Impedance Control of a Flying End-effector in the Port-Hamiltonian Framework
R. Rashad, Ramy; D. Bicego; J. Zult, Jelle; S. Sanchez-Escalonilla; R. Jiao; A. Franchi; S. Stramigioli  [Xplore Link]

 

SOFT2: Stereo Visual Odometry for Road Vehicles based on a Point-to-Epipolar-Line Metric
I. Cvišić; I. Markovic; I. Petrovic  [Xplore Link]

 

Elastic-actuation Mechanism for Repetitive Hopping Based on Power Modulation and Cyclic Trajectory Generation
W. D. Shin; W. Stewart; M. Estrada; A. Ijspeert; D. Floreano   [Xplore Link]

 

Controlling Collision-Induced Aggregations in a Swarm of Micro Bristle-Robots
Z. Hao; S. Mayya; G. Notomista; S. Hutchinson; M. Egerstedt; A. Ansari   [Xplore Link]

 

Design of a New Bio-Inspired Dual-Axis Compliant Micromanipulator with Millimeter Strokes
Z. Lyu; Q. Xu   [Xplore Link]

 

A Multi-DoF Exoskeleton Haptic Device for the Grasping of a Compliant Object Adapting to a User's Motion Using Jamming Transitions
R. Michikawa; T. Endo; F. Matsuno   [Xplore Link]

 

Kinematic Redundancy Analysis for (2n+1)R Circular Manipulators
Z. Li; M. Brandstötter; M. Hofbaur   [Xplore Link]

 

Multitask Learning for Scalable and Dense Multilayer Bayesian Map Inference
L. Gan; Y. Kim; J. W. Grizzle; J. Walls; A. Kim; R. Eustice; M. Ghaffari   [Xplore Link]

 

On the Workspace of Electromagnetic Navigation Systems
Q. Boehler; S. Gervasoni; S. L. Charreyron; C. Chautems; B. J. Nelson   [Xplore Link]

 

Self-triggered Coverage Control for Mobile Sensors
E. J. Rodriguez-Seda; X. Xu; J. M. Olm; A. Doria-Cerezo; Y. Diaz-Mercado   [Xplore Link]

 

Power-based Velocity-domain Variable Structure Passivity Signature Control for Physical Human-(Tele) Robot Interaction
P. Paik; S. Thudi; S. F. Atashzar   [Xplore Link]

 

Long-Horizon Multi-Robot Rearrangement Planning for Construction Assembly
V. N. Hartmann; A. Orthey; D. Driess; O. S. Oguz; M. Toussain    [Xplore Link]

 

An Anthropomorphic Robotic Finger with Innate Human-finger-like Biomechanical Advantages Part I: Design, Ligamentous Joint and Extensor Mechanism
Y. Zhu; G. Wei; L. Ren; Z. Luo; J. Shang   [Xplore Link]

 

An Anthropomorphic Robotic Finger with Innate Human-finger-like Biomechanical Advantages Part II: Flexible Tendon Sheath and Grasping Demonstration
Y. Zhu; G. Wei; L. Ren; Z. Luo; J. Shang   [Xplore Link]

 

A Novel Scaffold Reinforced Actuator With Tunable Attitude Ability for Grasping
P. Jiang; J. Luo; J. Li; M. Z. Q. Chen; Y. Chen; Y. Yang; R. Chen   [Xplore Link]

 

Simultaneous Online Registration-Independent Stiffness Identification and Tip Localization of Surgical Instruments in Robot-assisted Eye Surgery
A. Ebrahimi; S. Sefati; P. Gehlbach; R. H. Taylor; I. I. Iordachita   [Xplore Link]

 

An Investigation on the Effect of Actuation Pattern on the Power Consumption of Legged Robots for Extraterrestrial Exploration
Y. Hu; W. Z. Guo; R. Lin   [Xplore Link]

 

Reduced Euler-Lagrange Equations of Floating-base Robots: Computation, Properties & Applications
H. Mishra; G. Garofalo; A. M. Giordano; M. De Stefano; C. Ott; A. Kugi   [Xplore Link]

 

Kinegami: Algorithmic Design of Compliant Kinematic Chains from Tubular Origami
W.-H. Chen; W. Yang; L. Peach; D. Koditschek; C. Sung    [Xplore Link]

 

Object Detection Using Sim2Real Domain Randomization for Robotic Applications
D. Horváth; G. Erdos; Z. Istenes; T. Horvath; S. Földi    [Xplore Link]

 

ASRO-DIO: Active Subspace Random Optimization based Depth Inertial Odometry
J. Zhang; Y. Tang; H. Wang; K. Xu   [Xplore Link]

 

Collaborative Magnetic Manipulation via Two Robotically-Actuated Permanent Magnets
G. Pittiglio; M. Brockdorff; T. da Veiga; J. Davy; J. H. Chandler; P. Valdastri   [Xplore Link]

 

An Unconstrained Convex Formulation of Compliant Contact
A. Castro; F. Permenter; X. Han    [Xplore Link]

 

Closing the Planning-Learning Loop with Application to Autonomous Driving
P. Cai; D. Hsu   [Xplore Link]

 

Bounds on Optimal Revisit Times in Persistent Monitoring Missions with a Distinct & Remote Service Station   
S. K. K. Hari; S. Rathinam; S. Darbha; K. Kalyanam; S. G. Manyam; D. Casbeer   [Xplore Link]

 

Probabilistic Framework for Hand-Eye and Robot-World Calibration AX=YB
J. Ha    [Xplore Link]

 

Multi-Robot Pickup and Delivery via Distributed Resource Allocation
A. Camisa; A. Testa; G. Notarstefano    [Xplore Link]

 

High-Performance Six-DOF Flight Control of the Bee++: An Inclined-Stroke-Plane Approach
R. Bena; X. Yang; A. Calderon; N. O. Perez-Arancibia    [Xplore Link]

 

A Geometrically-Exact Assumed Strain Modes Approach for the Geometrico- and Kinemato-static Modellings of Continuum Parallel Robots
S. Briot; F. Boyer   [Xplore Link]

 

Design, Control, and Experimental Evaluation of a Novel Robotic Glove System for Patients with Brachial Plexus Injuries
W. Xu; Y. Guo; C. Bravo; P. Ben-Tzvi    [Xplore Link]

 

Shape Sensing of Flexible Robots based on Deep Learning
X. T. Ha; D. Wu; M. Ourak; G. Borghesan; J. Dankelman; A. Menciassi; E. B. Vander Poorten   [Xplore Link]

 

ViTAL: Vision-Based Terrain-Aware Locomotion for Legged Robots
S. Fahmi; V. Barasuol; D. Esteban; O. A. Villarreal Magaña; C. Semini   [Xplore Link]

 

Efficient Anytime CLF Reactive Planning System for a Bipedal Robot on Undulating Terrain
J.-K. Huang; J. W. Grizzle   [Xplore Link]

 

Active Inference and Behavior Trees for Reactive Action Planning and Execution in Robotics
C. Pezzato; C. Hernández; S. Bonhof; M. Wisse    [Xplore Link]

 

Haptify: a Measurement-Based Benchmarking System for Grounded Force-Feedback Devices
F. Fazlollahi; K. J. Kuchenbecker     [Xplore Link]

 

Statics and Dynamics of Continuum Robots Based on Cosserat Rods and Optimal Control Theories
F. Boyer; V. Lebastard; F. Candelier; F. Renda; M. Alamir    [Xplore Link]

 

Interaction Control of a Robotic Manipulator with the Surface of Deformable Object
A. Dometios; C. S. Tzafestas    [Xplore Link]

 

Kinetostatic Modeling of Tendon-Driven Parallel Continuum Robots
S. Lilge; J. Burgner-Kahrs   [Xplore Link]

 

Large-Dimensional Multibody Dynamics Simulation Using Contact Nodalization and Diagonalization
J. Lee; M. Lee; D. Lee   [Xplore Link]

 

Deep Learning Reactive Robotic Grasping with a Versatile Vacuum Gripper
H. Zhang; J. Peeters; E. Demeester; K. Kellens    [Xplore Link]

 

Data-Driven Variable Impedance Control of a Powered Knee-Ankle Prosthesis for Adaptive Speed and Incline Walking
T. Best; C. G. Welker; E. Rouse; R. D. Gregg    [Xplore Link]

 

Improving Self-Consistency in Underwater Mapping through Laser-Based Loop Closure
T. Hitchcox; J. R. Forbes    [Xplore Link]

 

Maximum-Entropy Multi-Agent Dynamic Games: Forward and Inverse Solutions
N. Mehr; M. Wang; M. Bhatt; M. Schwager    [Xplore Link]

 

BiConMP: A Nonlinear Model Predictive Control Framework for Whole Body Motion Planning
A. Meduri; P. Shah; J. Viereck; M. Khadiv; I. Havoutis; L. Righetti   [Xplore Link]