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RA-RRTV*: Risk-Averse RRT* With Local Vine Expansion for Path Planning in Narrow Passages Under Localization Uncertainty RA-RRTV*：局域不确定性条件下窄小通道路径规划的风险规避RRT*

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IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters Pub Date : 2025-01-15 DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2025.3528675

Shi Zhang;Rongxin Cui;Weisheng Yan;Yinglin Li

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Controlling Pneumatic Bending Actuator With Gain-Scheduled Feedforward and Physical Reservoir Computing State Estimation 基于增益计划前馈和物理储层计算状态估计的气动弯曲执行器控制

IF 4.6 2区计算机科学

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters Pub Date : 2025-01-14 DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2025.3528661

Junyi Shen;Tetsuro Miyazaki;Kenji Kawashima

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Funabot-Sleeve: A Wearable Device Employing McKibben Artificial Muscles for Haptic Sensation in the Forearm funbot - sleeve：一种使用McKibben人造肌肉来实现前臂触觉的可穿戴设备

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IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters Pub Date : 2025-01-13 DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2025.3528229

Yanhong Peng;Yusuke Sakai;Yuki Funabora;Kenta Yokoe;Tadayoshi Aoyama;Shinji Doki

{"title":"Funabot-Sleeve: A Wearable Device Employing McKibben Artificial Muscles for Haptic Sensation in the Forearm","authors":"Yanhong Peng;Yusuke Sakai;Yuki Funabora;Kenta Yokoe;Tadayoshi Aoyama;Shinji Doki","doi":"10.1109/LRA.2025.3528229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2025.3528229","url":null,"abstract":"Haptic feedback systems play a critical role in enriching the user experience in human-robot interaction. However, existing devices designed for evoking haptic sensations often face limitations owing to their low degree of freedom of deformation. In this study, we introduce the Funabot-Sleeve, a haptic device based on McKibben artificial muscles, and investigate its potential to evoke a range of haptic sensations using both steady-state and transient air pressure patterns. Our investigation examines the influence of these patterns on evoking distinct haptic sensations and identifies four specific sensations that can be evoked: Embraced, Pinched, a combination of Embraced and Pressed, and Twisted sensations. Across all participants, the evoked sensations showed positive correlations, with most correlations exceeding a value of 0.4, indicating a high degree of agreement in the sensations felt by the subjects. Our research lays the groundwork for the design of fabric actuators, capable of replicating specific stimuli and skin surface effects, thereby enabling a more sophisticated and personalized haptic feedback experience.","PeriodicalId":13241,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters","volume":"10 2","pages":"1944-1951"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142992977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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3D Guidance Law for Flexible Target Enclosing With Inherent Safety 具有固有安全的柔性目标封闭三维制导律

IF 4.6 2区计算机科学

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters Pub Date : 2025-01-13 DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2025.3528225

Praveen Kumar Ranjan;Abhinav Sinha;Yongcan Cao

{"title":"3D Guidance Law for Flexible Target Enclosing With Inherent Safety","authors":"Praveen Kumar Ranjan;Abhinav Sinha;Yongcan Cao","doi":"10.1109/LRA.2025.3528225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2025.3528225","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we address the problem of enclosing an arbitrarily moving target in three dimensions by a single pursuer while ensuring the pursuer's safety by preventing collisions with the target. The proposed guidance strategy steers the pursuer to a safe region of space surrounding and excluding the target, allowing it to maintain a certain distance from the latter while offering greater flexibility in positioning and converging to any orbit within this safe zone. We leverage the concept of the Lyapunov Barrier Function as a powerful tool to constrain the distance between the pursuer and the target within asymmetric bounds, thereby ensuring the pursuer's safety within the predefined region. Further, we demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed guidance law in managing arbitrarily maneuvering targets and other uncertainties (such as vehicle/autopilot dynamics and external disturbances) by enabling the pursuer to consistently achieve stable global enclosing behaviors by switching between stable enclosing trajectories within the safe region whenever necessary, even in response to aggressive target maneuvers. To attest to the merits of our work, we conduct experimental tests with various plant models, including a high-fidelity quadrotor model within Software-in-the-loop (SITL) simulations, encompassing various challenging target maneuver scenarios and requiring only relative information for successful execution.","PeriodicalId":13241,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters","volume":"10 2","pages":"2088-2095"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142992991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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DINOv2-Based UAV Visual Self-Localization in Low-Altitude Urban Environments 基于dinov2的低空城市环境无人机视觉自定位

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IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters Pub Date : 2025-01-09 DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2025.3527762

Jiaqiang Yang;Danyang Qin;Huapeng Tang;Sili Tao;Haoze Bie;Lin Ma

{"title":"DINOv2-Based UAV Visual Self-Localization in Low-Altitude Urban Environments","authors":"Jiaqiang Yang;Danyang Qin;Huapeng Tang;Sili Tao;Haoze Bie;Lin Ma","doi":"10.1109/LRA.2025.3527762","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2025.3527762","url":null,"abstract":"Visual self-localization technology is essential for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to achieve autonomous navigation and mission execution in environments where global navigation satellite system (GNSS) signals are unavailable. This technology estimates the UAV's geographic location by performing cross-view matching between UAV and satellite images. However, significant viewpoint differences between UAV and satellite images result in poor accuracy for existing cross-view matching methods. To address this, we integrate the DINOv2 model with UAV visual localization tasks and propose a DINOv2-based UAV visual self-localization method. Considering the inherent differences between pre-trained models and cross-view matching tasks, we propose a global-local feature adaptive enhancement method (GLFA). This method leverages Transformer and multi-scale convolutions to capture long-range dependencies and local spatial information in visual images, improving the model's ability to recognize key discriminative landmarks. In addition, we propose a cross-enhancement method based on a spatial pyramid (CESP), which constructs a multi-scale spatial pyramid to cross-enhance features, effectively improving the ability of the features to perceive multi-scale spatial information. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method achieves impressive scores of 86.27% in R@1 and 88.87% in SDM@1 on the DenseUAV public benchmark dataset, providing a novel solution for UAV visual self-localization.","PeriodicalId":13241,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters","volume":"10 2","pages":"2080-2087"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142992990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Learning Agile Swimming: An End-to-End Approach Without CPGs 学习敏捷游泳：没有cpg的端到端方法

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IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters Pub Date : 2025-01-09 DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2025.3527757

Xiaozhu Lin;Xiaopei Liu;Yang Wang

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Learning-Based On-Track System Identification for Scaled Autonomous Racing in Under a Minute 一分钟内基于学习的规模化自动驾驶赛车赛道系统辨识

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IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters Pub Date : 2025-01-08 DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2025.3527336

Onur Dikici;Edoardo Ghignone;Cheng Hu;Nicolas Baumann;Lei Xie;Andrea Carron;Michele Magno;Matteo Corno

{"title":"Learning-Based On-Track System Identification for Scaled Autonomous Racing in Under a Minute","authors":"Onur Dikici;Edoardo Ghignone;Cheng Hu;Nicolas Baumann;Lei Xie;Andrea Carron;Michele Magno;Matteo Corno","doi":"10.1109/LRA.2025.3527336","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2025.3527336","url":null,"abstract":"Accurate tire modeling is crucial for optimizing autonomous racing vehicles, as State-of-the-Art (SotA) model-based techniques rely on precise knowledge of the vehicle's parameters, yet system identification in dynamic racing conditions is challenging due to varying track and tire conditions. Traditional methods require extensive operational ranges, often impractical in racing scenarios. Machine Learning (ML)-based methods, while improving performance, struggle with generalization and depend on accurate initialization. This paper introduces a novel on-track system identification algorithm, incorporating a Neural Network (NN) for error correction, which is then employed for traditional system identification with virtually generated data. Crucially, the process is iteratively reapplied, with tire parameters updated at each cycle, leading to notable improvements in accuracy in tests on a scaled vehicle. Experiments show that it is possible to learn a tire model without prior knowledge with only 30 seconds of driving data, and 3 seconds of training time. This method demonstrates greater one-step prediction accuracy than the baseline Nonlinear Least Squares (NLS) method under noisy conditions, achieving a 3.3x lower Root Mean Square Error (RMSE), and yields tire models with comparable accuracy to traditional steady-state system identification. Furthermore, unlike steady-state methods requiring large spaces and specific experimental setups, the proposed approach identifies tire parameters directly on a race track in dynamic racing environments.","PeriodicalId":13241,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters","volume":"10 2","pages":"1984-1991"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142992982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Symbolic Manipulation Planning With Discovered Object and Relational Predicates 使用已发现对象和关系谓词的符号操作规划

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IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters Pub Date : 2025-01-08 DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2025.3527338

Alper Ahmetoglu;Erhan Oztop;Emre Ugur

{"title":"Symbolic Manipulation Planning With Discovered Object and Relational Predicates","authors":"Alper Ahmetoglu;Erhan Oztop;Emre Ugur","doi":"10.1109/LRA.2025.3527338","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2025.3527338","url":null,"abstract":"Discovering the symbols and rules that can be used in long-horizon planning from a robot's unsupervised exploration of its environment and continuous sensorimotor experience is a challenging task. The previous studies proposed learning symbols from single or paired object interactions and planning with these symbols. In this work, we propose a system that learns rules with discovered object and relational symbols that encode an arbitrary number of objects and the relations between them, converts those rules to Planning Domain Description Language (PDDL), and generates plans that involve affordances of the arbitrary number of objects to achieve tasks. We validated our system with box-shaped objects in different sizes and showed that the system can develop a symbolic knowledge of pick-up, carry, and place operations, taking into account object compounds in different configurations, such as boxes would be carried together with a larger box that they are placed on. We also compared our method with other symbol learning methods and showed that planning with the operators defined over relational symbols gives better planning performance compared to the baselines.","PeriodicalId":13241,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters","volume":"10 2","pages":"1968-1975"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142992980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Design and Analysis of a Hybrid Actuator With Resilient Origami-Inspired Hinges 弹性折纸铰链混合驱动器的设计与分析

IF 4.6 2区计算机科学

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters Pub Date : 2025-01-08 DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2025.3527282

Seunghoon Yoo;Hyunjun Park;Youngsu Cha

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Incorporating Point Uncertainty in Radar SLAM 雷达SLAM中点不确定性的引入

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IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters Pub Date : 2025-01-08 DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2025.3527344

Yang Xu;Qiucan Huang;Shaojie Shen;Huan Yin

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