14 accepted papers
Efficient exploration of large-scale environments remains a critical challenge in robotics, with applications ranging from environmental monitoring to search and rescue operations. This article proposes Frontier Shepherding (FroShe), a bio-inspired multi-robot framework for large-scale exploration.
One of the primary challenges in building a General Purpose Service Robot (GPSR), i.e. a robot capable of executing generic human commands, lies in acting upon natural language instructions. These instructions often contain speech recognition errors and incomplete information, complicating the extra
Georeferenced Enhanced EKF using point cloud Registration and Segmentation (GEERS) is a high-accuracy and consistent-rate localization method for outdoor robots. The localization is estimated by an EKF that fuses wheel odometry, IMU and GNSS measurements, in addition to feedback corrections from a r
Advancements in Automated Driving Systems (ADSs) have enabled the achievement of a certain level of autonomy while commuting in a car. However, emergency and high-speed maneuvers still arise as significant challenges for ADSs due to the intrinsic nonlinearity and fast-paced behavior of such events.…
Previous incremental estimation methods consider estimating a single line, requiring as many observers as the number of lines to be mapped. This leads to the need for having at least 4N state variables, with N being the number of lines. This paper presents the first approach for multi-line increment…
The performance of a software component implementing a robotic functionality depends on many factors ranging from the system configuration (e.g., available sensors and robot kinematics) to the operating environment, passing by the component configuration parameters. A naive approach to model the per
This article addresses an Active cooperative perception problem for networked robots systems. Given a team of networked robots, the goal is finding a target using their inherent uncertain sensor data. The article proposes a particle filter to model the probability distribution of the position of the
Problem benchmarks are used in experimental science as a reference against which results of experiments using distinct approaches to solve the problem are compared and evaluated in relative terms. In Robotics, just formulating a general performance assessment problem is difficult per se, as robot sy…
Social norms are the understandings that govern the behavior of members of a society. As such, they regulate communication, cooperation and other social interactions. Robots capable of reasoning about social norms are more likely to be recognized as an extension of our human society. However, norms…
In this work we study the efficient search of objects in domestic environments, using probabilistic logic to represent uncertainty about object location and partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDP) for the decision-making process regarding the movements to be carried out by the robot t…
Multi-robot cooperative navigation in real-world environments is essential in many applications, including surveillance and search-and-rescue missions. State-of-the-art methods for cooperative navigation are often tested in ideal laboratory conditions and not ready to be deployed in real-world envir…
In a team of autonomous drones, individual knowledge about the relative location of teammates is essential. Existing relative positioning solutions for teams of small drones mostly rely on external systems such as motion tracking cameras or GPS satellites that might not always be accessible. In this
This work proposes a novel relative localization system, based on active markers and an on-board camera, for tracking multiple quadrotors in a limited field of view. The system extracts the 3D poses of the markers including one that, by pulsating at a predefined frequency, provides an unique platfor
In this paper we present a framework for the application of augmented reality to a mobile robot, using non-central camera systems. Considering a virtual object in the world with known local 3D coordinates, the goal is to project this object into the image of a non-central catadioptric imaging device…