7 accepted papers
This paper builds upon the well-established ML-based grasping technique, known as the Grasp-Rectangle (GR) method. The original GR method made two simplifying assumptions: it was designed exclusively for two-finger grippers, and it assumed that the gripper would approach objects solely from a top-do…
In the pursuit of object retrieval using an aerial manipulator, developing robust visual servoing techniques in the presence of projection and motion model uncertainties is paramount. This paper proposes a novel approach to conducting image-space planning within the controllable-space of the aerial…
This letter presents the Observation-based Least-Restrictive Collision Avoidance Module (OLR-CAM) that can be added to any autonomous robot working in a shared environment and provide a high-level safety layer to the existing policy for each robot. The OLR-CAM takes raw sensory observations as input
Rotary-wing flying machines draw attention within the UAV community for their in-place hovering capability, and recently, holonomic motion over fixed-wings. In this paper, we investigate about the power-optimality in a mono-spinner, i.e., a class of rotary-wing UAVs with one rotor only, whose main b…
The seminal work cited in [1],[2] showed, for the first time, that flight stability of quadcopters would be possible in case of one or even multiple rotor failures. However, the quadcopter can remain airborne only by going through a spinning maneuver about an axis, fixed w.r.t the vehicle (i.e., res…
We present an integrated grasping system for a mobile manipulator to grasp an unknown object of interest (OI) in an unknown environment. The system autonomously scans its environment, models the OI, plans and executes a grasp, while taking into account base pose uncertainty. Due to inherent line of…
A special type of rotary-wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), called Quadcopter have prevailed to the civilian use for the past decade. They have gained significant amount of attention within the UAV community for their redundancy and ease of control, despite the fact that they fall under an under-a…