17 accepted papers
Task and Motion Planning (TAMP) integrates high-level task planning with low-level motion feasibility, but existing methods are costly in long-horizon problems due to excessive motion sampling. While LLMs provide commonsense priors, they lack 3D spatial reasoning and cannot ensure geometric or dynam…
In robotic task planning, symbolic planners using rule-based representations like PDDL are effective but struggle with long-sequential tasks in complicated environments due to exponentially increasing search space. Meanwhile, LLM-based approaches, which are grounded in artificial neural networks, of
Panoramic RGB-D cameras enable high-quality 3D scene reconstruction but require manual viewpoint selection and physical camera transportation, making the process time-consuming and tedious—especially for novice users. Key challenges include ensuring sufficient feature overlap between camera views an
We present an efficient and scalable learning-based autonomous exploration system for mobile robots navi-gating unknown indoor environments. Our system incorporates three network models trained to identify the frontier region (FR), to evaluate the detected FR regions based on their proximity to the…
A 3D occupancy map that is accurately modeled after real-world environments is essential for reliably performing robotic tasks. Probabilistic volumetric mapping (PVM) is a well-known environment mapping method using volumetric voxel grids that represent the probability of occupancy. The main bottlen
We present a new robotic drawing system based on stroke-based rendering (SBR). Our motivation is the artistic quality of the whole performance. Not only should the generated strokes in the final drawing resemble the input image, but the stroke sequence should also exhibit a human artist's planning p…
We propose a fully autonomous system for mobile robot exploration in unknown environments. Our system employs a novel frontier detection algorithm based on the fast front propagation (FFP) technique and uses parallel path planning to reach the detected front regions. Given an occupancy grid map in 2…
Probabilistic volumetric mapping (PVM) represents a 3D environmental map for an autonomous robotic navigational task. A popular implementation such as Octomap is widely used in the robotics community for such a purpose. The Octomap relies on an octree to represent a PVM and its main bottleneck lies…
Extended version of the paper to be published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
We propose a novel RGB-D camera tracking system that robustly reconstructs hand-held RGB-D camera sequences. The robustness of our system is achieved by two independent features of our method: adaptive visual odometry (VO) and integer programming-based key-frame selection. Our VO method adaptively i
We propose a novel RGB-D camera tracking system that robustly reconstructs hand-held RGB-D camera sequences. The robustness of our system is achieved by two independent features of our method: adaptive visual odometry (VO) and integer programming-based key-frame selection. Our VO method adaptively i…
In this paper, we propose a novel penetration metric, called deformable penetration depth PDd, to define a measure of inter-penetration between two linearly deforming tetrahedra using the object norm [1]. First of all, we show that a distance metric for a tetrahedron deforming between two configurat…
We propose a novel method adaptive subdivision (AS) to evaluate the distance function for moving general polygonal models. The distance function can have a positive and a negative value, each of which corresponds to the Euclidean distance and penetration depth, respectively. In our approach, the dis…
We present a robotic pen-drawing system that is capable of faithfully reproducing pen art on an unknown surface. Our robotic system relies on an industrial, seven-degree-of freedom manipulator that can be both position- and impedance-controlled. In order to estimate a rough geometry of the target, c…
We present a semi-autonomous robotic pen-drawing system that is capable of creating pen art on an arbitrary surface with varying thickness of pen strokes but without reconstructing the surface explicitly. Our robotic system relies on an industrial, seven-degree-of-freedom (7DoF) manipulator that can…
We present a new hybrid approach to computing penetration depth (PD) for general polygonal models. Our approach exploits both local and global approaches to PD computation and can compute error-bounded PD approximations for both deep and shallow penetrations. We use a two-step formulation: the first…
We present a novel algorithm to compute a gradient-continuous penetration depth (PhongPD) between two interpenetrated polygonal models. Our penetration depth (PD) formulation ensures separating the intersected models by translation, and the amount of such translation is close to an optimal motion to…