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Qi Lu

9 accepted papers

2025

“Where Does This Strange Smell Come from?”: Enabling Conversational Interfaces for Artificial Olfaction

EMNLP 2025

Existing Artificial Olfaction (AO) primarily serves two tasks: Odor Classification (OC) and Odor Source Localization (OSL). Both tasks w.r.t. indoor event detection scenarios are studied either using a single electronic nose (e-nose) mounted on the ceiling or mobile robot(s) equipped with e-noses. H

2022

CADRE: A Cascade Deep Reinforcement Learning Framework for Vision-Based Autonomous Urban Driving

AAAI 2022technical

Vision-based autonomous urban driving in dense traffic is quite challenging due to the complicated urban environment and the dynamics of the driving behaviors. Widely-applied methods either heavily rely on hand-crafted rules or learn from limited human experience, which makes them hard to generalize…

2020

A Bio-Inspired Transportation Network for Scalable Swarm Foraging

ICRA 2020poster

Scalability is a significant challenge for robot swarms. Generally, larger groups of cooperating robots produce more inter-robot collisions, and in swarm robot foraging, larger search arenas result in larger travel costs. This paper demonstrates a scale-invariant swarm foraging algorithm that ensure…

Cited by 9SourceScholar
2019

Comparing Physical and Simulated Performance of a Deterministic and a Bio-inspired Stochastic Foraging Strategy for Robot Swarms

ICRA 2019poster

Designing resource-collection algorithms for relatively simple robots that are effective given the noise and uncertainty of the real world is a challenge in swarm robotics. This paper describes the performance of two algorithms for collective robot foraging: the stochastic central-place foraging alg…

Cited by 21SourceScholar
2016

The MPFA: A multiple-place foraging algorithm for biologically-inspired robot swarms

IROS 2016poster

Finding and retrieving resources in unmapped environments is an important and difficult challenge for robot swarms. Central-place foraging algorithms can be tuned to produce efficient collective strategies for different resource distributions. However, efficiency decreases as swarm size scales up: l…

Cited by 35SourceScholar