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João Valente

4 accepted papers

2023

A fast two-stage approach for multi-goal path planning in a fruit tree

ICRA 2023poster

We consider the problem of planning the motion of a drone equipped with a robotic arm, tasked with bringing its end-effector up to many (150+) targets in a fruit tree; to inspect every piece of fruit, for example. The task is complicated by the intersection of a version of Neighborhood TSP (to find…

Cited by 6SourceScholar
2023

Fields2Cover: An Open-Source Coverage Path Planning Library for Unmanned Agricultural Vehicles

RA-L 2023

This letter describes Fields2Cover, a novel open source library for coverage path planning (CPP) for agricultural vehicles. While there are several CPP solutions nowadays, there have been limited efforts to unify them into an open source library and provide benchmarking tools to compare their perfor

Cited by 56SourceScholar
2022

APPLE MOTS: Detection, Segmentation and Tracking of Homogeneous Objects Using MOTS

RA-L 2022

Current multi object tracking and segmentation (MOTS) methods made great progress for the simultaneous detection and tracking of <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">heterogeneous</i> objects like cars and pedestrians. Nevertheless, all of

Cited by 15SourceScholar