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Evaluating and updating the obstacle avoidance velocity for an autonomous robot in real-time ensures robustness against noise and disturbances. A passive damping controller can obtain the desired motion with a torque-controlled robot, which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Lukas Huber , Thibaud Trinca , Jean-Jacques Slotine , Aude Billard

This paper presents our approach to intercepting a faster intruder UAV, inspired by the MBZIRC 2020 Challenge 1. By utilizing a priori knowledge of the shape of the intruder's trajectory, we can calculate an interception point. Target…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Antonella Barisic , Frano Petric , Stjepan Bogdan

A new path planning method for Mobile Robots (MR) has been developed and implemented. On the one hand, based on the shortest path from the start point to the goal point, this path planner can choose the best moving directions of the MR,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-09-08 Hoc Thai Nguyen , Hai Xuan Le

Developing a safe, stable, and efficient obstacle avoidance policy in crowded and narrow scenarios for multiple robots is challenging. Most existing studies either use centralized control or need communication with other robots. In this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Jiafeng Ma , Guangda chen , Yingfeng Chen , Yujing Hu , Changjie Fan , Jianming Zhang

While road obstacle detection techniques have become increasingly effective, they typically ignore the fact that, in practice, the apparent size of the obstacles decreases as their distance to the vehicle increases. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Krzysztof Lis , Sina Honari , Pascal Fua , Mathieu Salzmann

In this report, we try to improve the performance of existing approaches for search operations in multi-robot context. We propose three novel algorithms that are using a triangular grid pattern, i.e., robots certainly go through the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Ahmad Baranzadeh

Underwater navigation presents several challenges, including unstructured unknown environments, lack of reliable localization systems (e.g., GPS), and poor visibility. Furthermore, good-quality obstacle detection sensors for underwater…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Pengzhi Yang , Haowen Liu , Monika Roznere , Alberto Quattrini Li

In complex environments, low-cost and robust localization is a challenging problem. For example, in a GPSdenied environment, LiDAR can provide accurate position information, but the cost is high. In general, visual SLAM based localization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Dong Han , Zuhao Zou , Lujia Wang , Cheng-Zhong Xu

The broad scope of obstacle avoidance has led to many kinds of computer vision-based approaches. Despite its popularity, it is not a solved problem. Traditional computer vision techniques using cameras and depth sensors often focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Celyn Walters , Simon Hadfield

Road obstacle detection is an important problem for vehicle driving safety. In this paper, we aim to obtain robust road obstacle detection based on spatio-temporal context modeling. Firstly, a data-driven spatial context model of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Xiuen Wu , Tao Wang , Lingyu Liang , Zuoyong Li , Fum Yew Ching

This paper proposes a framework for 3D obstacle avoidance in the presence of partial observability of environment obstacles. The method focuses on the utility of the Artificial Potential Function (APF) controller in a practical setting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Shakeeb Ahmad , Zachary N. Sunberg , J. Sean Humbert

3D object detection is essential for autonomous systems, enabling precise localization and dimension estimation. While LiDAR and RGB cameras are widely used, their fixed frame rates create perception gaps in high-speed scenarios. Event…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Jae-Young Kang , Hoonhee Cho , Kuk-Jin Yoon

Controlling complex tasks in robotic systems, such as circular motion for cleaning or following curvy lines, can be dealt with using nonlinear vector fields. In this paper, we introduce a novel approach called rotational obstacle avoidance…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Lukas Huber , Jean-Jacques Slotine , Aude Billard

With the growing deployment of autonomous driving agents, the detection and segmentation of road obstacles have become critical to ensure safe autonomous navigation. However, existing road-obstacle segmentation methods are applied on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Shyam Nandan Rai , Shyamgopal Karthik , Mariana-Iuliana Georgescu , Barbara Caputo , Carlo Masone , Zeynep Akata

Developing controllers for obstacle avoidance between polytopes is a challenging and necessary problem for navigation in tight spaces. Traditional approaches can only formulate the obstacle avoidance problem as an offline optimization…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-10 Akshay Thirugnanam , Jun Zeng , Koushil Sreenath

Direct methods for event-based visual odometry solve the mapping and camera pose tracking sub-problems by establishing implicit data association in a way that the generative model of events is exploited. The main bottlenecks faced by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Junkai Niu , Sheng Zhong , Yi Zhou

In recent years, consumer-level depth cameras have been adopted for various applications. However, they often produce depth maps at only a moderately high frame rate (approximately 30 frames per second), preventing them from being used for…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Ming-Ze Yuan , Lin Gao , Hongbo Fu , Shihong Xia

Obstacle avoidance is essential for ensuring the safety of autonomous vehicles. Accurate perception and motion planning are crucial to enabling vehicles to navigate complex environments while avoiding collisions. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Van-Hoang-Anh Phan , Chi-Tam Nguyen , Doan-Trung Au , Thanh-Danh Phan , Minh-Thien Duong , My-Ha Le

We study the problem of target stabilization with robust obstacle avoidance in robots and vehicles that have access only to vision-based sensors for the purpose of realtime localization. This problem is particularly challenging due to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Alejandro Murillo-Gonzalez , Jorge I. Poveda

Localizing stereo boundaries and predicting nearby disparities are difficult because stereo boundaries induce occluded regions where matching cues are absent. Most modern computer vision algorithms treat occlusions secondarily (e.g., via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Jialiang Wang , Todd Zickler