5 accepted papers
This paper develops a control strategy for pursuit-evasion problems in environments with occlusions. We address the challenge of a mobile pursuer keeping a mobile evader within its field of view (FoV) despite line-of-sight obstructions. The signed distance function (SDF) of the FoV is used to formul
This paper proposes a trajectory tracking control law for a mobile robot with two front differential wheels and a tail wheel. The dynamics is given by mimicking Ackerman steering model for the dynamics of position and orientation, associated with the actuator dynamics of the tail wheel's angle model
This paper proposes a method for learning continuous control policies for exploration and active landmark localization. We consider a mobile robot detecting landmarks within a limited sensing range, and tackle the problem of learning a control policy that maximizes the mutual information between the…
The problem of active mapping aims to plan an informative sequence of sensing views given a limited budget such as distance traveled. This paper considers active occupancy grid mapping using a range sensor, such as LiDAR or depth camera. State-of-the-art methods optimize information-theoretic measur…
This paper develops iterative Covariance Regulation (iCR), a novel method for active exploration and mapping for a mobile robot equipped with on-board sensors. The problem is posed as optimal control over the SE(3) pose kinematics of the robot to minimize the differential entropy of the map conditio…