4 accepted papers
High-precision heavy-duty grading is a common step in earthworks, traditionally carried out manually by skilled operators. Removing a significant amount of material while achieving a high-precision surface requires substantial machine-specific experience. Different hydraulic architectures react diff…
Personal mobile robotic assistants are expected to find wide applications in industry and healthcare. For example, people with limited mobility can benefit from robots helping with daily tasks, or construction workers can have robots perform precision monitoring tasks on-site. However, manually stee
In this paper, we present a local, robot-centric navigation map optimized for autonomous mobile robots operating in unknown environments, enhancing their onboard perception systems for collision-free operation with far look-ahead distances. Utilizing a novel converging covariance cell representation…
Automation of hydraulic material handling machinery is currently limited to semi-static pick-and-place cycles. Dynamic throwing motions which utilize the passive joints, can greatly improve time efficiency as well as increase the dumping workspace. In this work, we use Reinforcement Learning (RL) to…