Wenhui Wei;Yangfan Zhou;Yimin Hu;Zhi Li;Sen Wang;Xin Liu;Jiadong Li
{"title":"BotVIO: A Lightweight Transformer-Based Visual–Inertial Odometry for Robotics","authors":"Wenhui Wei;Yangfan Zhou;Yimin Hu;Zhi Li;Sen Wang;Xin Liu;Jiadong Li","doi":"10.1109/TRO.2025.3577054","DOIUrl":"10.1109/TRO.2025.3577054","url":null,"abstract":"Visual–inertial odometry (VIO) provides a robust localization solution for simultaneous localization and mapping systems. Self-supervised VIO, a leading approach, has the advantage of not requiring extensive ground-truth labels. Regrettably, this method still poses challenges for robotic applications, particularly uncrewed aerial vehicles, due to its computational complexity arising from inadequate model designs. To address this bottleneck, we introduce BotVIO (where “Bot” refers to “robotics”), a transformer-based self-supervised VIO model, offering an excellent solution to alleviate computational burdens for robotics. Our lightweight backbone combines shallow CNNs with spatial–temporal-enhanced transformers to replace conventional architectures, while the minimalist cross-fusion module uses single-layer cross-attention to enhance multimodal interaction. Extensive experiments show that, during pose estimation, BotVIO achieves a remarkable 70.37% reduction in trainable parameters and a 74.85% decrease in inference speed, reaching up to 57.80 fps on an NVIDIA Jetson NX (10W&2CORE), while improving pose accuracy and robustness. For the benefit of the community, we make public the source code.<sup>1</sup>","PeriodicalId":50388,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Robotics","volume":"41 ","pages":"3760-3778"},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144228557","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":"EeLsT: An Energy-efficient Long-short Term Approach for Sustainable Sailboat Autonomy in Disturbed Marine Environment","authors":"Qinbo Sun, Weimin Qi, Huihuan Qian","doi":"10.1109/tro.2025.3577058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/tro.2025.3577058","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50388,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Robotics","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144228563","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":"Goal-Conditioned Model Simplification for 1-D and 2-D Deformable Object Manipulation","authors":"Shengyin Wang, Matteo Leonetti, Mehmet Dogar","doi":"10.1109/tro.2025.3577052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/tro.2025.3577052","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50388,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Robotics","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144228570","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}
Jiaqi Jiang;Xuyang Zhang;Daniel Fernandes Gomes;Thanh-Toan Do;Shan Luo
{"title":"RoTipBot: Robotic Handling of Thin and Flexible Objects Using Rotatable Tactile Sensors","authors":"Jiaqi Jiang;Xuyang Zhang;Daniel Fernandes Gomes;Thanh-Toan Do;Shan Luo","doi":"10.1109/TRO.2025.3576951","DOIUrl":"10.1109/TRO.2025.3576951","url":null,"abstract":"This article introduces RoTipBot, a novel robotic system for handling thin, flexible objects. Different from previous works that are limited to singulating them using suction cups or soft grippers, RoTipBot can count multiple layers and then grasp them simultaneously in a single grasp closure. Specifically, we first develop a vision-based tactile sensor named RoTip that can rotate and sense contact information around its tip. Equipped with two RoTip sensors, RoTipBot rolls and feeds multiple layers of thin, flexible objects into the centre between its fingers, enabling effective grasping. Moreover, we design a tactile-based grasping strategy that uses RoTip’s sensing ability to ensure both fingers maintain secure contact with the object while accurately counting the number of fed objects. Extensive experiments demonstrate the efficacy of the RoTip sensor and the RoTipBot approach. The results show that RoTipBot not only achieves a higher success rate but also grasps and counts multiple layers simultaneously—capabilities not possible with previous methods. Furthermore, RoTipBot operates up to three times faster than state-of-the-art methods. The success of RoTipBot paves the way for future research in object manipulation using mobilized tactile sensors.","PeriodicalId":50388,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Robotics","volume":"41 ","pages":"3684-3702"},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144228567","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}
Fabian Schmidt, Julian Daubermann, Marcel Mitschke, Constantin Blessing, Stephan Meyer, Markus Enzweiler, Abhinav Valada
{"title":"ROVER: A Multi-Season Dataset for Visual SLAM","authors":"Fabian Schmidt, Julian Daubermann, Marcel Mitschke, Constantin Blessing, Stephan Meyer, Markus Enzweiler, Abhinav Valada","doi":"10.1109/tro.2025.3577026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/tro.2025.3577026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50388,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Robotics","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144228565","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}
Dingqi Zhang, Antonio Loquercio, Jerry Tang, Ting-Hao Wang, Jitendra Malik, Mark W. Mueller
{"title":"A Learning-based Quadcopter Controller with Extreme Adaptation","authors":"Dingqi Zhang, Antonio Loquercio, Jerry Tang, Ting-Hao Wang, Jitendra Malik, Mark W. Mueller","doi":"10.1109/tro.2025.3577037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/tro.2025.3577037","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50388,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Robotics","volume":"62 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144228460","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":"A Novel Iterative Solution to the Perspective-$n$-Point Problem via Cost Function Approximation","authors":"Lipu Zhou, Zhenzhong Wei, Xu Wang","doi":"10.1109/tro.2025.3577061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/tro.2025.3577061","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50388,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Robotics","volume":"248 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144228561","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}