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To address the gaps between the static pre-set "thinking-planning-action" of humanoid robots in unfamiliar scenarios and the highly programmed "call tool-return result" due to the lack of autonomous coding capabilities, this work designs a…
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Accurate navigation is of paramount importance to ensure flight safety and efficiency for autonomous drones. Recent research starts to use Deep Neural Networks to enhance drone navigation given their remarkable predictive capability for…
Robotic systems are more connected, networked, and distributed than ever. New architectures that comply with the \textit{de facto} robotics middleware standard, ROS\,2, have recently emerged to fill the gap in terms of hybrid systems…
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Motivated by applications such as on-device collaborative neural network inference, this work investigates edge-facilitated collaborative fog computing - in which edge-devices collaborate with each other and with the edge of the network to…
Simulations play a crucial role in robotics research and education. This paper presents the OpenUAV testbed, an open-source, easy-to-use, web-based, and reproducible software system that enables students and researchers to run robotic…
The RoboRacer (F1TENTH) platform has emerged as a leading testbed for advancing autonomous driving research, offering a scalable, cost-effective, and community-driven environment for experimentation. This paper presents a comprehensive…
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Recent advances in artificial intelligence have driven increasing intelligent applications at the network edge, such as smart home, smart factory, and smart city. To deploy computationally intensive Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) on…
Prior robot painting and drawing work, such as FRIDA, has focused on decreasing the sim-to-real gap and expanding input modalities for users, but the interaction with these systems generally exists only in the input stages. To support…
Lidar odometry has attracted considerable attention as a robust localization method for autonomous robots operating in complex GNSS-denied environments. However, achieving reliable and efficient performance on heterogeneous platforms in…
In collaborative perception, an agent's performance can be degraded by heterogeneity arising from differences in model architecture or training data distributions. To address this challenge, we propose HyDRA (Hybrid Domain-Aware Robust…
This paper presents CODECO, a federated orchestration framework for Kubernetes that addresses the limitations of cloud-centric deployment. CODECO adopts a data-compute-network co-orchestration approach to support heterogeneous…
While edge computing is envisioned to superbly serve latency sensitive applications, the implementation-based studies benchmarking its performance are few and far between. To address this gap, we engineer a modular edge cloud computing…
We present a networked co-simulation framework for multi-robot systems applications. We require a simulation framework that captures both physical interactions and communications aspects to effectively design such complex systems. This is…