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The paper proposes a reliable and robust planning solution to the long range robotic navigation problem in extremely cluttered environments. A two-layer planning architecture is proposed that leverages both the environment map and the…
This paper addresses the fast replanning problem in dynamic environments with moving obstacles. Since for randomly moving obstacles the future states are unpredictable, the proposed method, called SMARRT, reacts to obstacle motions and…
This paper introduces a graph-based, potential-guided method for path planning problems in unknown environments, where obstacles are unknown until the robots are in close proximity to the obstacle locations. Inspired by optimal transport…
Inspection of underwater structures with tethered underwater vehicles is often hindered by the risk of tether entanglement. We propose REACT (real-time entanglement-aware coverage path planning for tethered underwater vehicles), a framework…
Robots often need to solve path planning problems where essential and discrete aspects of the environment are partially observable. This introduces a multi-modality, where the robot must be able to observe and infer the state of its…
Implicit neural representations have demonstrated significant promise for 3D scene reconstruction. Recent works have extended their applications to autonomous implicit reconstruction through the Next Best View (NBV) based method. However,…
Mobile phone data have recently become an attractive source of information about mobility behavior. Since cell phone data can be captured in a passive way for a large user population, they can be harnessed to collect well-sampled mobility…
Mobile robots dedicated in security tasks should be capable of clearly perceiving their environment to competently navigate within cluttered areas, so as to accomplish their assigned mission. The paper in hand describes such an autonomous…
Sampling-based algorithms for robot path planning offer probabilistic completeness and strong empirical convergence properties across environments with diverse obstacle configurations. However, in practice, these methods often require many…
This paper introduces the covering path problem on a grid (CPPG) which finds the cost-minimizing path connecting a subset of points in a grid such that each point that needs to be covered is within a predetermined distance of a point from…
We propose a novel approach for sampling-based and control-based motion planning that combines a representation of the environment obtained via a modified version of optimal Rapidly-exploring Random Trees (RRT*), with landmark-based…
We propose conformal predictive programming (CPP), a framework to solve chance constrained optimization problems, i.e., optimization problems with constraints that are functions of random variables. CPP utilizes samples from these random…
Real scans always miss partial geometries of objects due to the self-occlusions, external-occlusions, and limited sensor resolutions. Point cloud completion aims to refer the complete shapes for incomplete 3D scans of objects. Current deep…
Undersampled CT volumes minimize acquisition time and radiation exposure but introduce artifacts degrading image quality and diagnostic utility. Reducing these artifacts is critical for high-quality imaging. We propose a computationally…
A new method is developed for three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of multi-material objects using propagation-based X-ray phase-contrast tomography (PB-CT) with phase retrieval via the contrast transfer function (CTF) formalism. The…
Robot Coverage Path planning (i.e., provide full coverage of a given domain by one or multiple robots) is a classical problem in the field of robotics and motion planning. The goal is to provide nearly full coverage while also minimize…
In this paper, we present a novel path planning algorithm to achieve fast path planning in complex environments. Most existing path planning algorithms are difficult to quickly find a feasible path in complex environments or even fail.…
Computed Tomography (CT) imaging technique is widely used in geological exploration, medical diagnosis and other fields. In practice, however, the resolution of CT image is usually limited by scanning devices and great expense. Super…
This research embarked on a comparative exploration of the holistic segmentation capabilities of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in both 2D and 3D formats, focusing on cystic fibrosis (CF) lesions. The study utilized data from two CF…
We present 3DeepCT, a deep neural network for computed tomography, which performs 3D reconstruction of scattering volumes from multi-view images. Our architecture is dictated by the stationary nature of atmospheric cloud fields. The task of…