Yi Ting Sam, Erin Hedlund-Botti, Manisha Natarajan, Jamison Heard, Matthew Gombolay
{"title":"The Impact of Stress and Workload on Human Performance in Robot Teleoperation Tasks","authors":"Yi Ting Sam, Erin Hedlund-Botti, Manisha Natarajan, Jamison Heard, Matthew Gombolay","doi":"10.1109/tro.2024.3484630","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/tro.2024.3484630","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50388,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Robotics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142487427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trust and Dependence on Robotic Decision Support","authors":"Manisha Natarajan, Matthew Gombolay","doi":"10.1109/tro.2024.3484628","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/tro.2024.3484628","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50388,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Robotics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142487429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sepehr Samavi, James R. Han, Florian Shkurti, Angela P. Schoellig
{"title":"SICNav: Safe and Interactive Crowd Navigation using Model Predictive Control and Bilevel Optimization","authors":"Sepehr Samavi, James R. Han, Florian Shkurti, Angela P. Schoellig","doi":"10.1109/tro.2024.3484634","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/tro.2024.3484634","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50388,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Robotics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142487651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Giulio Giacomuzzo;Ruggero Carli;Diego Romeres;Alberto Dalla Libera
{"title":"A Black-Box Physics-Informed Estimator Based on Gaussian Process Regression for Robot Inverse Dynamics Identification","authors":"Giulio Giacomuzzo;Ruggero Carli;Diego Romeres;Alberto Dalla Libera","doi":"10.1109/TRO.2024.3474851","DOIUrl":"10.1109/TRO.2024.3474851","url":null,"abstract":"Learning the inverse dynamics of robots directly from data, adopting a black-box approach, is interesting for several real-world scenarios where limited knowledge about the system is available. In this article, we propose a black-box model based on Gaussian process (GP) regression for the identification of the inverse dynamics of robotic manipulators. The proposed model relies on a novel multidimensional kernel, called \u0000<italic>Lagrangian Inspired Polynomial</i>\u0000 (LIP) kernel. The LIP kernel is based on two main ideas. First, instead of directly modeling the inverse dynamics components, we model as GPs the kinetic and potential energy of the system. The GP prior on the inverse dynamics components is derived from those on the energies by applying the properties of GPs under linear operators. Second, as regards the energy prior definition, we prove a polynomial structure of the kinetic and potential energy, and we derive a polynomial kernel that encodes this property. As a consequence, the proposed model allows also to estimate the kinetic and potential energy without requiring any label on these quantities. Results on simulation and on two real robotic manipulators, namely a 7 DOF Franka Emika Panda, and a 6 DOF MELFA RV4FL, show that the proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art black-box estimators based both on Gaussian processes and neural networks in terms of accuracy, generality, and data efficiency. The experiments on the MELFA robot also demonstrate that our approach achieves performance comparable to fine-tuned model-based estimators, despite requiring less prior information. The code of the proposed model is publicly available.","PeriodicalId":50388,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Robotics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142384280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Approximate Methods for Visibility-Based Pursuit–Evasion","authors":"Emmanuel Antonio;Israel Becerra;Rafael Murrieta-Cid","doi":"10.1109/TRO.2024.3474948","DOIUrl":"10.1109/TRO.2024.3474948","url":null,"abstract":"To the best of our knowledge, an exact solution to the visibility-based pursuit–evasion problem with point agents and polygonal obstacles addressed in this work is not known. Given the above, in this work, we present approximate algorithms, but feasible and with other desirable properties, for such a pursuit–evasion game. Our new method combines asymptotically optimal motion planning based on sampling (more specifically, optimal probabilistic roadmaps) and the value iteration of dynamic programming. In addition, our formulation finds solutions for the evader when there are singular surfaces, which previous work could not find. In this work, we obtain two main theoretical results. We first prove that the proposed discrete formulation is correct (that the method obtains the solution for the discretization of the given configuration space). Subsequently, combining random graph results, Bellman's optimality principle, and limits, it is proved that, as the number of samples tends to infinity, our approximate discrete formulation becomes the continuous formulation corresponding to the Hamilton–Jacobi–Isaacs equation. This results in a feasible method that improves its approximation as the number of samples increases. Simulation experiments in 2-D and 3-D environments with obstacles that are simply and multiplicattively connected exemplify the results of the new method and show the advantages over previous work.","PeriodicalId":50388,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Robotics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142377305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Oscar de Groot, Laura Ferranti, Dariu M. Gavrila, Javier Alonso-Mora
{"title":"Topology-Driven Parallel Trajectory Optimization in Dynamic Environments","authors":"Oscar de Groot, Laura Ferranti, Dariu M. Gavrila, Javier Alonso-Mora","doi":"10.1109/tro.2024.3475047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/tro.2024.3475047","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50388,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Robotics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142377306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elena Sorina Lupu, Fengze Xie, James A. Preiss, Jedidiah Alindogan, Matthew Anderson, Soon-Jo Chung
{"title":"MAGICVFM -Meta-Learning Adaptation for Ground Interaction Control With Visual Foundation Models","authors":"Elena Sorina Lupu, Fengze Xie, James A. Preiss, Jedidiah Alindogan, Matthew Anderson, Soon-Jo Chung","doi":"10.1109/tro.2024.3475212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/tro.2024.3475212","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50388,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Robotics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142377301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Semidefinite Relaxations for Matrix-Weighted State-Estimation Problems in Robotics","authors":"Connor Holmes;Frederike Dümbgen;Timothy Barfoot","doi":"10.1109/TRO.2024.3475220","DOIUrl":"10.1109/TRO.2024.3475220","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, there has been remarkable progress in the development of so-called \u0000<italic>certifiable perception</i>\u0000 methods, which leverage semidefinite, convex relaxations to find \u0000<italic>global optima</i>\u0000 of perception problems in robotics. However, many of these relaxations rely on simplifying assumptions that facilitate the problem formulation, such as an \u0000<italic>isotropic</i>\u0000 measurement noise distribution. In this article, we explore the tightness of the semidefinite relaxations of \u0000<italic>matrix-weighted</i>\u0000 (anisotropic) state-estimation problems and reveal the limitations lurking therein: matrix-weighted factors can cause convex relaxations to lose tightness. In particular, we show that the semidefinite relaxations of localization problems with matrix weights may be tight only for low noise levels. To better understand this issue, we introduce a theoretical connection between the posterior uncertainty of the state estimate and the certificate matrix obtained via convex relaxation. With this connection in mind, we empirically explore the factors that contribute to this loss of tightness and demonstrate that \u0000<italic>redundant constraints</i>\u0000 can be used to regain it. As a second technical contribution of this article, we show that the state-of-the-art relaxation of scalar-weighted simultaneous localization and mapping cannot be used when matrix weights are considered. We provide an alternate formulation and show that its semidefinite program relaxation is not tight (even for very low noise levels) unless specific \u0000<italic>redundant constraints</i>\u0000 are used. We demonstrate the tightness of our formulations on both simulated and real-world data.","PeriodicalId":50388,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Robotics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142377303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}