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Quickly and reliably finding accurate inverse kinematics (IK) solutions remains a challenging problem for robotic manipulation. Existing numerical solvers typically produce a single solution only and rely on local search techniques to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Oliver Limoyo , Filip Marić , Matthew Giamou , Petra Alexson , Ivan Petrović , Jonathan Kelly

Deep neural networks have shown great potential in image reconstruction problems in Euclidean space. However, many reconstruction problems involve imaging physics that are dependent on the underlying non-Euclidean geometry. In this paper,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-07 Xiajun Jiang , Sandesh Ghimire , Jwala Dhamala , Zhiyuan Li , Prashnna Kumar Gyawali , Linwei Wang

Reliable localization is crucial for autonomous robots to navigate efficiently and safely. Some navigation methods can plan paths with high localizability (which describes the capability of acquiring reliable localization). By following…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Yuan Chen , Quecheng Qiu , Xiangyu Liu , Guangda Chen , Shunyi Yao , Jie Peng , Jianmin Ji , Yanyong Zhang

Legged robots, particularly quadrupeds, offer promising navigation capabilities, especially in scenarios requiring traversal over diverse terrains and obstacle avoidance. This paper addresses the challenge of enabling legged robots to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Jianwei Liu , Shirui Lyu , Denis Hadjivelichkov , Valerio Modugno , Dimitrios Kanoulas

In the last decade, autonomous navigation for roboticshas been leveraged by deep learning and other approachesbased on machine learning. These approaches have demon-strated significant advantages in robotics performance. Butthey have the…

This paper presents a provably correct method for robot navigation in 2D environments cluttered with familiar but unexpected non-convex, star-shaped obstacles as well as completely unknown, convex obstacles. We presuppose a limited range…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Vasileios Vasilopoulos , Daniel E. Koditschek

Learning and reasoning about 3D molecular structures with varying size is an emerging and important challenge in machine learning and especially in drug discovery. Equivariant Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) can simultaneously leverage the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Tuan Le , Frank Noé , Djork-Arné Clevert

Path planning in unknown environments is a crucial yet inherently challenging capability for mobile robots, which primarily encompasses two coupled tasks: autonomous exploration and point-goal navigation. In both cases, the robot must…

In this paper, we propose a novel Deep Reinforcement Learning approach to address the mapless navigation problem, in which the locomotion actions of a humanoid robot are taken online based on the knowledge encoded in learned models.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Andre Brandenburger , Diego Rodriguez , Sven Behnke

Understanding the geometric relationships between objects in a scene is a core capability in enabling both humans and autonomous agents to navigate in new environments. A sparse, unified representation of the scene topology will allow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Zachary Seymour , Niluthpol Chowdhury Mithun , Han-Pang Chiu , Supun Samarasekera , Rakesh Kumar

In autonomous driving, deep learning enabled motion prediction is a popular topic. A critical gap in traditional motion prediction methodologies lies in ensuring equivariance under Euclidean geometric transformations and maintaining…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yuping Wang , Jier Chen

In this article, we propose a novel navigation framework that leverages a two layered graph representation of the environment for efficient large-scale exploration, while it integrates a novel uncertainty awareness scheme to handle dynamic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Akash Patel , Mario A V Saucedo , Christoforos Kanellakis , George Nikolakopoulos

The robustness of visual navigation policies trained through imitation often hinges on the augmentation of the training image-action pairs. Traditionally, this has been done by collecting data from multiple cameras, by using standard data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Dhruv Sharma , Alihusein Kuwajerwala , Florian Shkurti

We propose a general architecture that combines the coefficient learning scheme with a residual operator layer for learning mappings between continuous functions in the 3D Euclidean space. Our proposed model is guaranteed to achieve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Chaoran Cheng , Jian Peng

Equipping active colloidal robots with intelligence such that they can efficiently navigate in unknown complex environments could dramatically impact their use in emerging applications like precision surgery and targeted drug delivery. Here…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-08-01 Yuguang Yang , Michael A. Bevan , Bo Li

Learning from demonstration for motion planning is an ongoing research topic. In this paper we present a model that is able to learn the complex mapping from raw 2D-laser range findings and a target position to the required steering…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Mark Pfeiffer , Michael Schaeuble , Juan Nieto , Roland Siegwart , Cesar Cadena

We consider the problem of embedding the nodes of a hypergraph into Euclidean space under the assumption that the interactions arose through closeness to unknown hyperedge centres. In this way, we tackle the inverse problem associated with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Francesco Zigliotto , Desmond J. Higham

Rotation-invariance is a desired property of machine-learning models for medical image analysis and in particular for computational pathology applications. We propose a framework to encode the geometric structure of the special Euclidean…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Maxime W. Lafarge , Erik J. Bekkers , Josien P. W. Pluim , Remco Duits , Mitko Veta

This paper proposes a novel online motion planning approach to robot navigation based on nonlinear model predictive control. Common approaches rely on pure Euclidean optimization parameters. In robot navigation, however, state spaces often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Christoph Rösmann , Artemi Makarow , Torsten Bertram

In this paper we outline the approach of solving special type of navigation tasks for robotic systems, when a coalition of robots (agents) acts in the 2D environment, which can be modified by the actions, and share the same goal location.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-07-28 Aleksandr I. Panov , Konstantin Yakovlev